Jan. 6 committee hearings: Four takeaways from second day of hearings
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In the second day of the House Jan. 6 select committee public hearings, Chairman Bennie Thompson said the committee would show that former President Donald Trump lost his reelection campaign, knew he lost and as a result of his loss, "decided to wage an attack on our democracy, an attack on the American people," which culminated in the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. $1 million to the Conservative Partnership Institute, where former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is senior partner $1 million to the America First Policy Institute, which lists among its leaders former Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, former senior Trump adviser Larry Kudlow, and former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf $5 million to Event Strategies, Inc., which ran the Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse $204,857 to the Trump Hotel Collection
Here are some of the highlights from Monday's hearing:
