Former US president Donald Trump lost touch with reality as he deluged aides with wild voter fraud conspiracy theories in the wake of his election defeat to Joe Biden, his top law enforcement official says.
Donald Trump's advisers dismantled his false claims of 2020 election fraud but he became"detached from reality", the US Capitol riot probe has heard.
"When I went into this and would tell him how crazy some of these allegations were, there was never an indication of interest in the actual facts," said Mr Barr, who likened addressing Mr Trump's avalanche of false allegations with playing the game "whack-a-mole." The second of six planned hearings was shown videotaped accounts from the former president's advisors, including Mr Barr and campaign manager Bill Stepien, saying they repeatedly counseled him not to declare victory on election night because he hadn't won — but that Mr Trump went ahead anyway.
Mr Barr said in his testimony that Mr Trump claimed major fraud "right out of the box on election night... before there was actually any potential of looking at evidence."Mr Giuliani and associates including the lawyer Sidney Powell would go on to push debunked theories of massive voter fraud that put them at odds with the White House lawyers Mr Stepien referred to as "Team Normal.
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