Takeaways from Tuesday hearing Jan 6th Committee
We ran the numbers: There are 3,421 news articles covering this topic. 73% (2,504) are left-leaning, 22% (766) are centrist, and 15% (151) are right-leaning.
The January 6th House select committee held another hearing on Tuesday. While left-leaning articles highlight how Donald Trump continued to push his fraudulent election claims despite being told they were false, right-leaning articles highlight potential witness tampering in the House investigation.
A left-leaning article from The Washington Post focuses on former President Donald Trump’s repeated fraudulent election claims. The hearing emphasized a December 19th tweet from Trump telling his supporters that there would be a “big protest… be there, will be wild.” The tweet was labeled a “call to action… a call to arms” by Stephanie Murphy (Rep. D-FL). The committee also demonstrated that Trump had planned the march on the Capitol for days and wanted to join his supporters.
The Hill published a centrist article reporting on how Steve Bannon called Donald Trump on January 5th, before stating on a talk show that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow… it’s all converging, and now we’re on, as they say, the point of attack.” Bannon is set to go on trial for charges of criminal contempt of Congress on Monday.
A right-leaning article from the New York Post focuses on how Donald Trump tried to contact a witness in the House select committee’s January 6th investigation. A second witness was sent a voice message stating that “[A person] let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. He wants me to let you know that he’s thinking about you. He knows you’re loyal, and you’re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition.”
From the center
Bannon predicted ‘all hell is going to break loose tomorrow’ after Jan. 5 call with Trump
The Hill