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'A dangerous cancer': Jan. 6 panel depicts human toll of Trump's election pressure

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, in emotional testimony, discussed standing up to Trump allies who pressured him to help overturn the 2020 election.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/january-6-committee-state-officials-georgia-arizona-raffensberger-rcna33006

June 21, 2022, 11:25 AM CDT / Updated June 21, 2022, 4:38 PM CDT
By Scott Wong

WASHINGTON — The Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday leaned on emotional testimony to illustrate the human toll that Donald Trump’s elaborate scheme to overturn the 2020 election had on public servants and their families.

While the Jan. 6 hearings have focused on Trump’s aggressive efforts to stop certification of Joe Biden’s victory, the committee’s fourth public hearing zeroed in on other consequences of that pressure campaign: the violent threats to those who stood up to Trump’s election lies and the upending of the lives of even the most low-level poll workers.

“The president’s lie was — and is — a dangerous cancer on the body politic,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a Jan. 6 committee member who played a prominent role in Tuesday’s hearing. “This pressure campaign brought angry phone calls and texts, armed protests, intimidation, and, all too often, threats of violence and death."

In live testimony, the committee elicited not just stories about the Trump effort to overturn the election, but the personal experiences that ran concurrent — a poll worker forced from her home for two months, a state official with a dying daughter and another who became irate after seeing the threats to a young man.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/january-6-committee-state-officials-georgia-arizona-raffensberger-rcna33006