Biden calls testimony from Jan. 6 committee listening to ‘devastating’

President Joe Biden stated Saturday that he discovered testimony offered throughout the Home Jan. 6 committee’s listening to final week to be “devastating” and that the panel has made an “overwhelming” case.

Requested by reporters about his ideas on the committee’s ninth listening to throughout a cease at a Baskin-Robbins in Portland, Oregon, Biden stated, “I believe the testimony within the video are literally devastating.”

“And I have been going out of my approach to not remark and see what occurs. However it’s — I believe it has been devastating,” he stated. “I imply, the case has been made, it appears to me, pretty overwhelming.” 

He added, “However any extra I say about it, you — justified — are going to ask me if I am attempting to affect the Lawyer Normal. I am not. I’ve not spoken with him in any respect.”

The committee’s listening to Thursday — the final earlier than the midterm elections — delve into former President Donald Trump’s mindset because the violence on the Capitol unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021.

The listening to featured never-before-seen footage of Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and different congressional leaders calling for assist throughout the riot as Trump refused to name off the mob of his supporters.

Former Trump White Home aides testified that Trump privately knew he had misplaced the 2020 election, regardless of espousing false claims of widespread election fraud.

The listening to concluded with the committee voting unanimously to subpoena the previous president for paperwork and testimony.

Biden beforehand weighed in on the significance of the Jan. 6 congressional hearings in June, saying that Individuals ought to know what unfolded and that “the identical forces that led to Jan. 6 stay at work right now.”

“The rebel on Jan. 6 was one of many darkest chapters in our nation’s historical past — a brutal assault on our democracy, a brutal assault on legislation enforcement, some dropping their lives, and we heard about it final night time once more,” Biden stated in June, on the high of remarks centered on inflation on the Port of Los Angeles.

Though he stated he was unable to observe the committee’s first public listening to in June, the president pressured that it will be significant that the general public understands “what actually occurred.”

“Now we have to guard our democracy,” he stated, including that “the soul of America has been removed from gained.”