Monday's hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot unfolded largely through video. The committee is relying on taped testimony from Trump's circle to try to make a case that the former president conspired to overturn the election.
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said at Monday’s Jan. 6 hearing that former President Donald Trump was acting on the advice of an “apparently inebriated” Rudy Giuliani when he claimed victory on election night.If Trump believed that the election had been stolen, he was becoming"detached from reality," Barr said. The claims of fraud were"bull---," he said.
During a deposition to the House special committee on the U.S. Capitol Riot, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr testified repeatedly that there was no election fraud in the 2020 Election.
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