Bennie Thompson says second hearing will tell story of how ‘Trump decided to wage an attack on our democracy’
The Democratic chair of the committee, Mississippi congressman Bennie Thompson, has said the second hearing would focus on “the lies that convinced those men and others to storm the Capitol to try to stop the transfer of power”.lost an election and knew he lost an election and, as a result of his loss, decided to wage an attack on our democracy,” Thompson said on Monday.
The Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the committee, said Trump rejected several advisers’ guidance to wait for more votes to be counted on election night. Trump instead followed the advice of an “apparently inebriated” Giuliani to falsely declare victory before a winner was known, Cheney said at the Monday hearing.
The select committee said it would also show how Trump and the Republican political apparatus used those baseless claims to rake in millions of dollars from unsuspecting Americans in fundraising, and how the Capitol attack was fueled by those claims perpetuated by Trump. “I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was bullshit,” William Barr, Trump’s former attorney general, told investigators in a clip shared on Thursday.for the committee’s argument that Trump played a central role in the planning of the insurrection and bears personal responsibility for the deadly attack.
“Over multiple months, Donald Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. In our hearings, you will see evidence of each element of this plan.”
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