The biggest 'bombshells' of the latest Jan. 6 hearing

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The January 6 panel.
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During its seventh hearing on Tuesday, the House Jan. 6 committee showed how former President Donald Trump, with the backing of supporters like onetime National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and ex-Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, continued to push claims of widespread voter fraud, even after White House lawyers challenged those assertions. The panel also focused on how Trump's tweet ahead of Jan. 6, calling on people to come to Washington, D.C., for a "big protest" that would "be wild," galvanized his supporters, including many with ties to right-wing and white nationalist extremist groups.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.