This Cassidy Hutchinson testimony revealed by the Jan. 6 committee yesterday reinforces the fact that Trump knew he lost and lied anyway. (via MaddowBlog)
Alyssa Farah Griffin, then the head of White House strategic communications, told the Jan. 6 committee that she popped into the Oval Office “maybe a week after the election was called” to check on Trump. “He was looking at the TV, and he said, ‘Can you believe I lost to this effing guy?’” Farah Griffin said. Another former White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, gave a similar account.
During the same presentation, the public saw Hutchinson recall a post-election conversation she had with Meadows in which the then-White House chief of staff conceded, in reference to Trump, “He knows he lost.” Hutchinson also remembered Meadows saying, “A lot of times he’ll tell me that he lost.”Trump knew he lost. His campaign manager told him he lost. His lawyers told him he lost. His campaign data experts told him he lost. The courts told him he lost.
The sitting American president had more access to more facts than practically any human on the planet. If anyone knew the actual outcome of the 2020 race, it was Trump — and according to people who spoke with him at the time, he was well aware of the truth.As Rep. Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chair of the bipartisan panel, explained to the public yesterday, “Claims that President Trump actually thought the election was stolen are not supported by fact and not a defense.
The question then becomes how best to hold the former president accountable for deliberately perpetrating a fraud by way of “a calculated and deliberate plan that shook the foundations of the very democracy he had sworn to uphold.”
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