one big topic on in second day of committee hearing on 6 January was that former President Trump has been spoken to numerous times, including by his own lawyer. general – it is his “big lies” about electoral fraud were baseless. But he made fake statement on Election night anyway, and hasn’t stopped since.
As during the opening hearing, committee members used video evidence from some of Trump’s closest friends and advisers, including harsh comments former Attorney General William P. Barr – in show that the President should have known that his claims were unfounded.
Here are some more takeaways from second day of hearing.
Trump has been described as “detached from reality”after the election.
The video testimony of Mr. Barr was of most convincing of morning, with in former advocate general describing Mr Trump as increasingly “distracted from reality” in days after the election. In his testimony, Mr. Barr said he had repeatedly told the President that his allegations of fraud were unfounded, but that “there was never any indication of interest in what are the real facts.
Unadorned portrait of Mr. Trump is the pivot of the argument the committee is trying to make is that Mr. Trump knew about his statements of there were no rigged elections true as well as made them anyway. Mr Barr said that in weeks after the election, he repeatedly told Mr. Trump:how some crazy of these accusations were.
The committee alleges that Mr. Trump was a known liar. But Mr. Barr’s testimony offered another possible explanation: that the president actually believed the lies he was telling.
“I thought, boy, if he really believes in this nonsense, then he, you know to lose touch with, with “He’s out of touch with reality if he really believes this nonsense,” Mr. Barr told the committee.
Trump was surrounded by two groups: the Normal Team and Team Rudy.
One thing that came clear on There were two different groups on Monday of people around mr trump in days and weeks after the election.
Bill Stepien, Mr. Trump campaign manager described him team as a “Normal Command”, as opposed to team led by Rudy Giuliani, Mr Trump’s personal lawyer.
BUT veteran Republican operative, Mr. Stepien was among campaign aides, lawyers, White House advisers, and others who urged Mr Trump to drop his unfounded claims of fraud. Mr Giuliani team fed the president’s paranoia and pushed him to back unsubstantiated and far-fetched claims of collection of ballots, voting machine falsification and more. “We call they are kind of my team and Rudy team,” Mr. Stepien told committee investigators. in interview. “I didn’t mind being described as part of of The team is fine.”
Committee members hope that the description of two competing groups in Mr. Trump’s orbit indicates that Mr. Trump made choice to listen group led by Mr. Giuliani instead of topics who ran it campaign and worked in his administration. Mr Trump chose in the words of “Team normal” to listen to those spouting “crazy” arguments instead.
A picture appears of election night at the White House.
hearings open on Monday with bright portrait of election night at the White House describing the reaction of the president and his entourage when Fox News called Arizona. for Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Use of video evidence of closest advisers to the president and some members of his family commission revealed how Mr. Trump rejected the cautionary advice he received.
Mr Stepien said in a video in which he urged the president not to declare victory prematurely, already explained that the Democratic votes likely to be taken into account later in night. Mr. Trump ignored him, Mr. Stepien and others said. Instead he listened to Rudy Giuliani who According to aides, he was drunk that night and urged the President to declare his victory and say that the elections stolen.
Chris Stirwalt, Fox News Political Editor who was fired after on-air call for Arizona, informed the committee that the shift in returns that night, which caused the president’s claims of no voter manipulation more than expected results of democratic votes are considered after the Republican. He expressed pride that he team was first exactly call Arizona results and said there iszero” chance what Mr Trump would have won this is a state.
Millions of dollars were sent to the defunct “Election Defense Fund,” the committee said in a statement.
It was not just “big lies,” the committee said in a January 6 report. It was also ” big tear-off”.
In the video presentation that ended second hearing, the commission described how Mr Trump and his campaign assistants used unfounded claims of electoral fraud to convince presidential supporters to send millions of dollars into something called the Election Defense Fund. Trump supporters donated $100 million, according to the committee. in in first a week after the election, I think in hope that they money would help the president fight overturn results.
But the committee’s investigator said there was no evidence that such a fund ever existed. Instead of, millions of dollars flowed into super pak that president set up on November 9, just days after the election. According to the committee, this PAC donated $1 million to a charity foundation run Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump former main of employees and another $1 million for political group run for a few of his former staff, including Stephen Miller, architect of Trump Immigration Program.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California summed up up discovery is way: “Throughout the committee’s investigation, we found evidence that Trump campaign and its surrogates misled donors as to where their funds would go and what they would be used for. for”. She is added“So not only big lie, there was big tear-off. Donors Deserve know Where do their funds actually go? They deserve better than what President Trump and his team did.”
