Ex-Trump White House official calls January 6 committee's process 'comprehensive and deliberative'
CNN
A former White House official says the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is mounting "a very comprehensive and deliberative process," following her own testimony to Republicans on the committee earlier this year.
Alyssa Farah told CNN's Pamela Brown Saturday she got the sense, based on the questioning she received, the committee is focused on two main things: determining whether there was illegal activity associated with attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, and building a narrative around how the lie of the election being stolen from Trump was propagated.
"They want to put together the definitive narrative on the 'Big Lie.' How people contributed to it, how people perpetuated it, who, by the way, knew it wasn't true. So that's why these witness testimonies under oath are going to be so important," Farah said. "So, putting that together and then there's going to be the criminal justice side of things. Was there wrongdoing? Was there tampering within the Department of Justice or with state governments to overturn or push to overturn results? That's something they're all looking into."
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