Monday's Jan. 6 hearing used firsthand accounts from Trump's inner circle to focus on how he pushed the 'big lie' of a stolen 2020 race to millions of supporters even though almost all of his advisers. Here are some key takeaways from the hearing:
Ivanka Trump told the committee in previously taped video that she didn't have a "firm view" of what her dad should have said the night of the election, while his campaign spokesman Jason Miller told investigators that a "definitely intoxicated" Giuliani was pushing for Trump to declare victory.
But Trump's former Attorney General Bill Barr offered some of the most striking testimony on Monday, appearing to revel in the chance to tell his side in taped testimony -- though publicly he has walked a fine line: broadly supporting the president while calling out his specific election fraud claims as false.
"Trump said, 'You didn't have to say this, you must've said this because you hate Trump,'" Barr remembered, going on to say he was concerned for Trump's state of mind. Lofgren said one side was helmed by Stepien, who was then Trump's campaign manager, and the other was organized around Giuliani, a former New York City mayor, longtime Trump confidant and one of his personal attorneys.In his pre-taped testimony, Stepien told the committee that Trump's growing unhappiness after Election Day "paved the way" for Giuliani, attorney Sidney Powell and others to become more influential.
The committee also outlined, according to their investigation, how little of the $250 million raised by Trump for his court battles after the 2020 race actually went to his post-election defense, with Lofgren calling the "big lie" a "big rip-off." "As the select committee has demonstrated, the Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false yet they continued to barrage small-dollar donors with emails," Wick said.
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