During the meeting, which was held on December 18, 2020, former President Donald Trump and some of his closest associates will discuss ways to seize voting machines to prove election fraud.
The meeting is said to have degenerated into a several-hour-long quarrel in front of the former president. According to the major newspaper The New York Times some have left the meeting in tears.
However, those involved have never publicly commented on what came out of the meeting – until now. During Monday’s hearing meeting in the House of Representatives, new information about the meeting emerged.
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President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, General Michael FlynnChief of Staff Mark Meadows and attorney Sidney Powell were among those who attended.
The meeting was also attended by a bunch of employees who thought Trump should accept the election result and admit that he lost to current President Joe Biden.
During the meeting, the former president is said to have discussed whether Sidney Powell should be a special adviser and monitor an investigation into election fraud.
WAS PRESENT: Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, pictured here during a November 19 news conference. Photo: REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst
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Powell received a lot of attention after she made bizarre allegations that Venezuela’s former president Hugo Chávez ordered the development of an electoral fraud system. Chávez died in 2013. The Trump camp distanced itself from Powell after that.
State of emergency as a tool in the fight against the election result must also have come up during the meeting.
The former president’s proposal for Powell as a special adviser has not fallen on deaf ears among some of the White House lawyers.
Opposition to the proposal, however, provoked strong reactions from some of Trump’s closest associates.
“Screamed at me”
In a testimony played during the hearing on Monday, Giuliani said that at the meeting he had called the White House’s lawyers and aides who disagreed with the proposal for “a bunch of cowards”, writes The Guardian.
Michael Flynn is also said to have reacted strongly.
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Eric Herschmann, a White House lawyer, claimed during the hearing that Flynn “shouted at me that I was someone who gave up easily. He stood up and shouted at me. I got enough so I shouted back, “Either get over here or sit down again.”
– It came to a point when the screaming only degenerated, he says and adds that he thinks what the group suggested was “madness”.
Powell accused White House lawyers of showing “nothing but contempt and contempt for the president,” according to hearings.
– It was not an ordinary meeting. People screamed back and forth and insulted each other. It was not such a meeting where people sit on the couch and have conversations, says Derek Lyons, lawyer in the White House.
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– Shut up
Attorney Eric Hershchmann says he finally asked the Trump allies to “shut up, damn it.”
During the hearing, it was also revealed that Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows finally escorted Rudy Giuliani out of the White House after the meeting to ensure that he did not “walk” back, writes The Independent.
ESCORTED OUT: Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows finally escorted Rudy Giuliani out of the White House after a heated meeting in late 2020. Photo: NTB / AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin
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The moment was pictured by Meadows employee Cassidy Hutchinson and was shown during Monday’s interrogation.
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