Monday's Jan. 6 hearings could expose Trump as 'a loser' who enacted 'a naked grab for power': Chris Wallace

During a CNN segment discussing the upcoming second hearing for the Jan. 6 committee this Monday, anchor Chris Wallace said Monday will be "the most important day" of all the hearings "because it all flows from Donald Trump claiming that the election was stolen."

"If they're successful in putting the lie to the Big Lie, then suddenly Trump is not an aggrieved party, he's simply a loser in a naked grab for power and willing to overturn the judgement of 50 million America voters," Wallace said, adding that with all the recounts and audits Trump wanted, it was obvious they were never going to find the amount of votes needed to call into question the 2020 election.

The panel aims to demonstrate that the violence was part of a broader drive by Trump and his inner circle to illegitimately cling to power, tearing up the Constitution and more than two centuries of peaceful transitions from one administration to the next.

Five subsequent hearings over the coming weeks will focus on Trump's role in the multi-pronged effort to return him to the Oval Office by disenfranchising millions of voters.

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Trump has defiantly dismissed the probe as a baseless "witch hunt" -- but the public hearings were clearly on his mind Thursday as he fired off a largely false tirade on his social media platform, defending the insurrection as "the greatest movement in the history of our Country to Make America Great Again."

The case the committee plans to make is that Trump laid the groundwork for the insurrection through months of lies about fraud in an election described by his own administration as the most secure ever.

His White House is accused of involvement in several potentially illegal schemes to aid the effort, including a plot to seize voting machines and another to appoint fake "alternative electors" from swing states who would ignore the will of their voters and hand victory to Trump.

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With additional reporting by AFP