The former State College business owner had pleaded guilty to charges including assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.
Jurors heard opening statements for the trial more than two years after members of the far-right extremist group joined a pro-Trump mob in storming the U.S. Capitol.
The committee is expected to share hundreds of transcripts of the over 1,000 witnesses it interviewed.
Alan Byerly purchased a stun gun before he traveled from his home in Fleetwood to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6.
“I just hope one day I can wake up and not have to live with it every day.”
The committee has built a case – more political than legal — that Trump, who continues to lie about the election and teases that he will run again in 2024, is not fit to hold the office.
White House counsel and White House officials testified Trump did not make any calls to the secretary of defense, the attorney general or the secretary of homeland security during the siege.
A majority of independents (55%) and 4 in 5 Democrats, but less than half of Republicans (44%), said they are paying at least some attention to the hearings.
The Jan. 6 committee hearings have produced lots of fireworks and eye-opening moments.
“It felt as if a mob was being organized, and they were gathering together their weaponry, their logic and their reasoning behind why they were prepared to fight.”
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