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The Self-Appointed Investigators Into Trump’s Assassination Attempts Take the Mic

Reps. Eli Crane and Cory Mills spoke as expert witnesses to the handful of Republicans who stayed behind after the task force’s first public hearing. They weren’t on the official list.

Cory Mills
Rep. Cory Mills was not on the official witness list at the first public hearing of a bipartisan congressional task force investigating the assassination attempts against Donald Trump. Rod Lamkey/AP

“I want to thank the task force giving the opportunity to actually testify before you,” Rep. Cory Mills said in his opening statement to the panel investigating the assassination attempts against Donald Trump. Except neither Mills nor Rep. Eli Crane, who was sitting next to him, was on the list of witnesses for the group’s first official hearing. And only three members of the 13-person task force were present listening to Mills — all of them Republicans.

In fact, the official hearing was technically over.

This was a follow-up meeting, which Democrats were given less than a day’s notice about.