Plaskett: Thanks to a long and exhaustive examination by the January 6th committee, we do know for a fact that January 6th was spurred by President Trump, who used disinformation, and violent rhetoric, to egg on extremists and conspiracy theorists.
Plaskett: DId fraud impact the outcome of the 2020 election?
Seligman: There was no evidence of fraud in any amount that was remotely close to what it would have taken to effect the outcome of the election.
Gaetz: How many of these intensely powerful people that work in the Biden White House were involved in this effort you've been investigating regarding the desire to shape discussions on social media?
Sauer: At least twenty, maybe more.
Gaetz: Was there a ringleader of this group, someone who had pervasive and repeated efforts to try and coerce social media companies to shape the truth according to the Biden White House?
Sauer: Deputy Assistant to the President, Rob Flaherty, and also Andy Slavitt
Sanchez: This hearing really isn't about social media companies, and it's really not about COVID-deniers. It's not even about Elon Musk. It's about protecting former President, Donald Trump.
Sauer: What we see is probably an orchestrated, pressure campaign, involving the Surgeon General, and the Surgeon General's officeโฆto engage in a pressure campaign that reinforced the pressure campaign that was happening, largely covertly, from the White Houseโฆthe Office of Surgeon General and the White House are, in a sense, teaming up with the social media platforms, to pressure them to remove the information that they thought was unworthy of First Amendment protections.
Garamendi: President Trump used the federal government, used his position as president, and his office of the presidency and others in the administration, to promote the 'big lie'. That the election was stolen. There is no doubt; the January 6th Committee proved this beyond a doubt that that's exactly what happened.
Allred: One of the police officers you saw [when entering the building today]โฆmight have been one of the hundreds more that are still dealing with mental trauma from that day [January 6th].
[two years later they are still mentally traumatized?]
Every one of President Trump's tweets being shown in the hearing are factual.
Allred: There is no grand conspiracy. Take off the tin-foil hats, and understand what's really going on here/
According to his wiki, Colin Allred worked as a special assistant with Julian Castro at HUD [big corruption], and also worked as an attorney at Perkins Coie.
Garcia seems to have just invented a new term: "vaccine science denialism"
Garcia demanding witness say if he believes the COVID vaccine saved lives.
Garcia now demanding that witness say if he believes masks stop transmission of COVID.
Goldman: The sad reality here is that we are continuing to go down this phantom narrative that the White House, or the Biden administration, coerced social media companies into censoring anti-vaccine and election disinformation and misinformation.
[Goldman knows it's been proven, and he is implicated as an accessory to overthrowing the government]
Cammack: So when [Biden] says that social media companies are killing people, and then there is a direct line form the White House to the social media companies, demanding posts be removed, going so far as to say there has to be a, "quick and devastating takedown, a published takedown", that is not a threat?
Seligman: I don't believe so.
Cammack: Wow!
Saurer: Censorship, both now and every other time there's been censorship throughout human history, is not about truth. It is about political power. It is about obtaining power. It is about preserving power. It is about expanding power.
Chairman Johnson: We brought in the attorney general of the state of Louisiana, and the former attorney general of Missouri, now a US senator, because their litigation has revealed overwhelming, direct evidence, that the executive branch has undertaken a broad campaign to censor the American people. That's the headline. That's the takeaway today.
Jordan: What is mal-information?
Sauer: Mal-information, by their definition, is truthful information, that the federal official thinks lacks appropriate context. It's an Orwellian term.