Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien will testify Monday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Stepien will be joined by other witnesses for the week's first hearing that include former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia BJay Pak, conservative election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg and Al Schmidt, the former city commissioner of Philadelphia, according to an announcement by the committee.
The Jan. 6 committee, which held its first public hearing on the Capitol attack in primetime on Thursday, is gearing up for daytime hearings this week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Lawmakers say they will tell a comprehensive narrative that places Trump at the center of the attack and show he is culpable for the rioting.
Stepien was first subpoenaed by the committee last November.
He is a longtime GOP operative who replaced Brad Parscale as Trump’s campaign manager in the months leading up to the 2020 election. Stepien was involved in the Trump campaign’s efforts to mount legal challenges to vote totals in several states he lost that year.
Stepien worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign and later served as White House political director.
The committee’s focus on Stepien includes his participation in the “Stop the Steal” effort, including fundraising and messaging that “included the promotion of certain false claims related to voting machines despite an internal campaign memo in which campaign staff determined that such claims were false.”
Stepien is now helping the campaign of Harriet Hageman, according to Politico. She is challenging Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chair and one of two Republicans who sit on the Jan. 6 committee.
Stirewalt is a former top editor...