Conservative election attorney will testify before January 6 committee on Monday

By Jamie Gangel, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN

Updated 10:44 AM ET, Mon June 13, 2022

(CNN)Conservative Republican election attorney Ben Ginsberg will be among the witnesses testifying Monday before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, as the panel seeks to scrutinize how former President Donald Trump’s election lies led to the riot.

Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien was to headline the witness list on Monday but unexpectedly backed out due to a “family emergency,” leading to a delay in the hearing. Stepien’s wife is in labor, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN, which is why the committee has released him from his subpoena for the day.

Committee aides said Sunday that the hearing would look at how Trump embraced false claims of fraud in the 2020 election and how he decided to declare victory in the hours after the election, even though he was told that the numbers didn’t bear it out.

Aides said the hearing would show how Trump’s team pursued legal challenges in court and lost those cases, and that Trump then chose to ignore the will of the courts and continued to try to overturn the election.

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