The then president of the United States, donald trumprepeatedly ignored the advice of his advisers on election night in his country and chose to listen to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, that being drunk recommended that he proclaim himself the winner victoriwithout waiting for the vote count to finish.
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This was stated by several witnesses in recorded interviews that were reproduced this Monday at a legislative committee hearing. investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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The committee recreated what happened in the White House during on election night of November 3, 2020 through the testimony of Trump’s closest advisersp and his family, who portrayed the then president as someone out of touch with reality who was angry about the results and who decided to proclaim himself the winner.
The results of the 2020 elections took three days to arrive, but on the same night of the elections Trump appeared before his supporters to allege without evidence that a fraud had occurred and that “frankly” he had won the Democratic candidate and current president, Joe Biden.
‘definitely drunk’
As revealed by the committee, Trump made those remarks guided by Giuliani, who had repeatedly urged him to go on stage and declare victory because the Democrats were “stealing” the election.
“The mayor was definitely drunkformer New York mayor Jason Miller said of Giulani, former Trump presidential campaign spokesman, whose remarks were played on video during the hearing.
The president’s former campaign manager, Bill Stepien, also revealed in another taped interview that Giuliani I had drunk too much that night and explained that several advisers, including himself, asked Trump to wait for the count to finish before making a public statement.
That night it became clear, according to Stepien, that the orbit of Trump advisers was separated into two: “the normal team” and “the crazy team”, made up of those who promoted conspiracy theories. Even some of Trump’s relatives asked him to listen to his advice.
One of his daughters, Ivanka Trump, he did not have a “firm view” on whether his father could winbut that night he reminded her that “the ballots were still being counted,” according to the video shown by the committee.
Additionally, Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, told the then-president that he disagreed with Giuliani’s advice and that he would not follow that approach, advice his father-in-law ignored.
Trump, oblivious to reality
Now-former US Attorney General William Barr painted an even more worrying picture of Trump, who he said never showed “interest in what the real facts were.”
Barr described a meeting he had with Trump in December 2020 in which he thought that if he really believed all those fraud lies, then the president had become someone “out of touch with reality” and with whom it was no longer possible. to reason.
The committee showed several video excerpts from his interview with Barr, in which he appears colorfully describing Trump’s lies, which he calls “garbage,” “complete nonsense” and “crazy stuff.” Barr left the leadership of the Justice Department in December 2020, almost a month before Trump left the White House; but until now his disagreements with the former president had not been made public.
From the lies to the assault on the Capitol
With the words of Barr and the rest of the advisers, the committee tried to show what were the origins of the false theories about electoral fraud, dismissed by the courts and that led a mass of Trump supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6 of 2021.
That day the certification of Biden’s electoral victory was scheduled, in what until then was a mere parliamentary process, but the mob forced the session to be interrupted.
“He (Trump) and his closest advisers knew that these fraud claims were false, but they continued to spread them, right up until a mass of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol,” said lawmaker Zoe Lofgren.
Lofgren was in charge of directing the second public hearing of the investigating commission, in which different witnesses rejected the idea of fraud. Witnesses included Benjamin Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election attorney, and BJay Pak, the attorney general for the Northern District of Georgia who resigned after Trump pressured state officials to overturn Biden’s victory in that state.
The last to testify was Al Schmidt, a Republican from the Philadelphia municipal commission who defended the count of votes in that city against the attacks of the then president.
The committee is made up of a majority of Democratic congressmen, although there are two Republican members – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – who are at odds with Trump. In the assault on the Capitol, five people died, including an officer after suffering a heart attack hours after the assault, and about 140 officers were attacked. In addition, four policemen subsequently committed suicide.
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