US Capitol Riot panel schedules further hearing into Trump's role in January 6 attack
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The US House of Representatives panel investigating the assault on the Capitol by former president Donald Trump's supporters has scheduled a seventh hearing for July 12.
Chairman Bennie Thompson hinted to reporters in June that the seventh, and potentially eighth, hearings would look into Mr Trump's role in allegedly directing the violent crowd toward the Capitol and his lack of action once the situation became unstable.
Six hearings have been held so far looking into the deadly attack when Mr Trump's supporters stormed Congress while it was formalising Joe Biden's election victory.
Mr Trump has denied responsibility for the Capitol attack but has said he would pardon those involved if he again became president.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Mr Trump's then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, delivered bombshell testimony to the panel last week about Mr Trump's conduct on the day of the riot.
Ms Hutchinson testified that Mr Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential limousine when his security detail declined to take him to the Capitol to join his supporters.
She also alleged Mr Trump dismissed concerns that some supporters gathered for his speech before the riot carried AR-15-style rifles, instead asking security to stop screening attendees with metal-detecting magnetometers so the crowd would look larger.
Additional witnesses have come forward since Ms Hutchinson's testimony.
Mr Trump has denied the claims. 
Mr Trump is also facing a special grand jury in Georgia regarding his alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat there.
The grand jury has issued subpoenas to Senator Lindsey Graham and Mr Trump's former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
A judge also ordered the testimony of other Trump legal team members Jenna Ellis, John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell and Jacki Deason.
The special grand jury was selected in May to consider evidence in a Georgia prosecutor's inquiry into Mr Trump's alleged efforts to influence the US state's 2020 election results.
The probe was launched after Mr Trump was recorded in a January 2, 2021 phone call pressuring Georgia's secretary of state to overturn the state's election results based on unfounded claims of voter fraud.
During the phone call, Mr Trump urged Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to "find" enough votes to overturn his Georgia loss to Mr Biden.
The transcript of the call quotes Mr Trump telling Mr Raffensperger, "I just want to find 11,780 votes", which is the number he needed to win Georgia.
Mr Trump has denied wrongdoing in the phone call.
Legal experts have said Mr Trump's phone calls may have violated at least three state election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties.
Reuters
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