Court documents detail the messages Richard Michetti, now facing criminal charges, sent his ex-girlfriend during the insurrection. “If you can’t see the election was stolen you’re a moron,” one reads.
The congressional official also says most of his staff have not yet been vaccinated, despite their continuing work at the Capitol campus to repair damage from the insurrection.
The Senate Homeland Security and Rules committees expect to hear from the Capitol’s three former top security officials — as well as the current head of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, Robert Contee — in the joint hearing Tuesday.
Videos from the day of the attack appear to show some officers escorting rioters inside the building.
The charging documents show the process of Bozell being identified, which included the online conversation about him, as he was wearing a Hershey Christian Academy sweatshirt during the riot.
Rep. Bennie Thompson filed a civil lawsuit that accuses former President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani as well as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers of conspiring to incite the violence at the Capitol.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced plans for Congress to establish an outside and independent commission to investigate “the facts and causes” related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
How each Senator voted in the impeachment trial
The managers were methodical and organized in showing, as they called it, Trump’s “provocation,” which they argued led to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, as well as the “harm” it caused.
