His Justice Minister, advisers and even his own daughter … The House Committee on Monday provided a confusing chronology of how Donald Trump sought to seize power, claiming that the election was “stolen” after the 2020 presidential defeat. “Despite repeated denials from him and his close supporters.
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“Even before the election, Mr. Trump, regardless of the facts and the facts, had decided that if he lost the election, he would say it was a fraud,” said Joe Lofgren, a Democrat elected member of the group. The Republican millionaire is responsible for the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Congress by his supporters.
After nearly a year of investigation, the commission on Monday released a rough account of the former president’s maneuvers between presidential election night and the attack on Capitol Hill.
Just hours after the poll ended on November 3, 2020, Joe Biden and Donald Trump were strangled. “It is clear that the election will not be held that night,” Ivanka Trump, the former president’s daughter and one of her closest advisers at the time, told the commission on Monday.
However, just before 2:30 a.m., Donald Trump appeared in front of American television from the living rooms of the White House. “Honestly, we won the election,” he says, surpassing the current figure.
Bill Stephen, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, told a panel of elected officials that “such a decision is too soon.”
Who was one of the promoters of the President’s attitude that evening? His personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, testified before the commission that, according to one of the president’s advisers, he was “clearly intoxicated.”
On November 7, 2020, just before 11:30 a.m., Joe Biden was announced the winner. On the same day, Donald Trump’s campaign manager attended a meeting with the outgoing president. “At this point (….) we told him he had a 5 or 10% chance of what we thought was a chance of success,” explained Bill Stephen.
The president “became more and more angry”, Mr. Says Stephen. The leader decides to change his ranks to surround himself with the people who support him in his crusade.
On November 19, this new legal committee is holding a very confusing press conference. Sidney Powell, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers, accused Venezuela, Cuba and Democrats of plotting the election.
On his side, Rudy Giuliani denounced it as “an iron curtain of censorship”. Under the heat of the spotlights, a brown liquid, hair dye, begins to drip into her temples.
Four days later, Attorney General Bill Barr visits the White House. “It was a bit embarrassing,” the minister said in a video aired by the commission on Monday.
He said that on several occasions, the two had jointly investigated the alleged election frauds put forward by Donald Trump. According to the Minister of Justice, “nonsense”.
“It made me depressed because I told myself + it’s crazy, if he really believes all this, it’s because he’s really deviated from reality +”, promised Bill Barr, who will resign on December 14th.
Next month, the commission argued that Donald Trump and his entourage would continue to tell “these lies” about election fraud in order to collect donations. Filling his supporters with dozens of emails a day, he revealed that his campaign team is raising $ 250 million between election day and January 6, 2021.
Joe Lofgren, best known for his role in the ousting of three presidents, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, before the Congress, denounced the “big lie as a great fraud.”
During the four hearings in the coming days, the Commission, known as “January 6”, will continue to present its findings on the year of the inquiry, which will put the former White House’s tenant at the heart of an “attempted conspiracy”.
The main interested party, Donald Trump, on Monday once again denounced the commission’s work, calling it a “witch hunt” that, according to him, “insults the United States.”
