As the Jan. 6 committee held its second public hearing Monday, it focused much of its presentation on a more arcane subject: mail-in voting 📝 EricCortellessa
to expedite the counting of mail ballots to purposefully slow down the mail vote count.
In one of the most memorable moments of the second hearing, the committee aired a series of clips from taped depositions of former Trump officials who told the story of Election Night from the West Wing. According to the testimonies of Stepien, campaign aide Jason Miller, and Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, aides and advisers repeatedly told Trump he should not declare victory until more results were in.
As Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican from Wyoming and vice chair of the panel, said, “President Trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on Election Night, and instead followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani.”—advised the president to “go and declare victory and say that we’d won it outright.” Trump then gave a press conference in the East Room of the White House, the night of Nov. 4, 2020. “Frankly, we did win this election,” he said.
The panel showed extensive segments of former Attorney General William Barr telling the committee that he explained to Trump how his argument that the election was rigged had no basis of evidence. “He’s become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff,” Barr told the panel. “When I went into this and would tell them how crazy some of these allegations were, there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were.
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