Bill Stepien, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, unexpectedly canceled his testimony before a House committee investigating the Capitol incident on Jan. 6, citing a family emergency, according to the panel.
Stepien is a well-known American political consultant who began serving as Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign’s campaign manager in July of that year.
According to a person briefed on the case who spoke on the condition of anonymity before of the hearing, the committee was informed on Monday morning that Stepien’s wife was in childbirth.
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Macy Cambio is Bill Stepien’s wife who was recently announced to be pregnant. Because of this, he withdrew from the January 6th hearings before the House committee investigating the Capitol incident, citing a family emergency.
He was expected to be a key witness as the panel delves deeper into the “big lie,” the defeated Republican president’s false claims of voter fraud that fueled his ceaseless effort to overturn the 2020 election and prompted a mob of his supporters to lay siege to the White House.
Stepien, a longstanding Trump supporter, had been summoned to testify, but it was unclear whether he would have cooperated.
As legislators and staff hurried to adjust to the change of plans, the committee announced that Stepien’s counsel will appear and deliver a statement. The committee also moved back its morning start time from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
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Bill Stepien is 44 years old as he was born on January 3, 1978.
Chris Christie’s successful run for Governor of New Jersey in 2009 included Stepien as his campaign manager. Christie named four top staffers, including Stepien, as Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, as his first big statement following winning the election.
Stepien resigned from that post in April 2013 to become Christie’s re-election campaign manager. Bridget Anne Kelly took his post as Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs.
During Donald Trump’s first impeachment, Stepien worked with Trump to persuade New Jersey Democratic congressman Jeff Van Drew to move to the Republican Party. Van Drew hired Stepien as an adviser for his 2020 re-election campaign in December 2019.
Stepien was promoted to campaign manager for Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign on July 15, 2020, replacing Brad Parscale.
Bill Stepien Family Emergency Leading To Missing The Hearing On Jan 6 Riot
Stepien attended West Morris Central High School and Rutgers University in New Jersey after being born into a Polish and German family. Stepien got his start in politics by working on Anthony Bucco’s State Senate campaign in 1997 and Bob Franks’ U.S. Senate campaign in 2000.
Before organizing Bill Baroni’s 2003 campaign for New Jersey State Assembly, he worked for Public Opinion Strategies and DuHaime Communications and was the only Republican to defeat a Democratic incumbent that year.
Stepien was the Political Director of the Bush/Cheney campaign in New Hampshire in 2004 and the Director of the RNC’s 72-Hour Campaign in 2005 and 2006.
He worked as a Regional Campaign Manager for Senator John S. McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008 before becoming National Field Director for New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign in 2007-08.
In the 2016 Presidential Campaign, he played the same position for Presidential hopeful Donald Trump.