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Rep. Omar's Statement on the January 6 Hearings

Statement

Date: June 9, 2022
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) issued the following statement ahead of the January 6 Hearings.

"The January 6th Committee has pored over thousands of hours of footage and over 140,000 pages of documents during the past 11 months of investigations. I hope the hearing will make clear to the nation what has been clear to those of us who experienced the events of January 6th: that President Donald Trump waged a deliberate months long campaign to discredit the outcome of the presidential election and keep himself in office. He did this in coordination with Republican Congressional leadership, along with far-right and militia groups, and he deliberately incited rioters on January 6th to disrupt the congressional certification of the election results.

"I was proud to introduce the first resolution impeaching Donald Trump for this insurrection. And I hope this hearing will remind everyone how fragile our democracy is, how important it is to defend it, and to hold any and all insurrectionists accountable."


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