Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a committee member. The committee sought to underscore the point that Trump himself was chiefly responsible for propagating the lies about the election and that the “Stop the Steal” movement was not a grassroots movement on which Trump seized, but rather one he sparked from the top down. Chris Stirewalt, former Fox News political editor, testifies on Monday. While the committee’s first hearing last week focused on the attack itself, Monday’s program aimed to show that Trump knew he had lost the election and intentionally used phony evidence and outright lies to try to stay in power and gin up the movement that led to the violent insurrection last January. "He wouldn't fight us on it, but he'd move to another allegation." "I told him flat out that much of the information he was getting was false or not supported by the evidence," Donoghue said.
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Trump's former Attorney General Bill Barr was particularly verbose, using words like "idiotic," "rubbish," "nonsense," "crazy," "stupid," "silly" and "annoying" to describe fraud claims made by Trump and the Giuliani circle he increasingly relied on as his professional campaign and government staff grew alienated from the president. “He said, 'I have confidence in Rudy.'”Įric Herschmann, one of Trump’s own attorneys, said the legal claims advanced by Trump’s Giuliani-led circle of outside legal advisers were “completely nuts.”
“That’s not the approach I would take,” Trump’s tight-lipped son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said he told the president. Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien is displayed on a screen Monday during a hearing investigating the Jan. In its second hearing, the committee played a series of video testimony from some of Trump’s closest political and legal advisers who were virtually unanimous in saying they urged the president that claims of massive fraud were "completely bogus" - and at every overture, Trump simply ignored them and opted instead to listen to Giuliani.
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