WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today joined his Senate Judiciary Committee Democratic colleagues for a spotlight hearing entitled “Clear and Present Danger: The Trump Administration’s Whitewashing of the January 6th Insurrection.” Hearing witnesses included Former United States Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn; Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges; Mike Romano, former Deputy Chief, Capitol Siege Section, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office; and Sara Levine, former prosecutor, Capitol Siege Section, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“I came because I wanted to say thank you. It’s incredibly frustrating. This should be a hearing with the full committee where all of us are expressing our gratitude to folks who did their jobs, and all of us are expressing outrage at the erosion of the rule of law,” said Senator Welch. “The thing that’s so difficult is that the world is upside down right now…You’re looking at a world where the bad guys won. I mean, that’s what it boils down to. And that’s hard to live with.”
Watch Senator Welch’s remarks below:
The spotlight hearing examined President Trump’s reckless and dangerous pardons for those who attacked the Capitol on January 6th, the subsequent retaliation against investigators and prosecutors, and continued attempts by Trump loyalists like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Ed Martin to rewrite the history of the insurrection and defend the rioters. The hearing also honored the law enforcement officers who bravely put themselves in harm’s way to protect the Capitol that day.
Watch a livestream recording of the spotlight hearing here.
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