The commission of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress that investigates the assault on the Capitol of 2021 has held a new session this Monday with the appearance of advisors from the former president’s electoral campaign, some of whom have revealed that they warned the president not to rushed forward with accusations of electoral fraud.
However, the former president ignored his advice and only listened to his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who has claimed that he was drunk.
Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien has said he urged the former president to be cautious on election night, telling him “it was too early” to determine the winner of the election because votes were still being counted.
But Trump disagreed.
“This is a fraud on the American public. This is a shame for our country. We were preparing to win this election, frankly we won this election, “said + at that time, according to Stepien in one of the first testimonies of the audience.
For his part, former Attorney General Bill Barr has told the committee that Trump claimed it was a fraud before there was a chance to examine the evidence, despite his advisers warning him and saying they had to wait a little longer.
Campaign advisers have assured the committee that everyone told Trump not to declare victory on election night, but the former president appeared at a White House press conference to declare himself the winner.
Giuliani, drunk, convinced Trump
Despite ignoring his top campaign advisers, the former president did heed the advice of Rudy Giuliani and other figures close to him who spoke about voter fraud, even though the former New York mayor was apparently drunk when advising Trump.
Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to the Trump campaign, has indicated that, indeed, Giuliani was “definitely intoxicated” at the election night party at the White House, statements with which the vice president of the committee has also agreed, Liz Cheney.
Stepien has testified that about two weeks after his 2020 loss, Trump pushed aside his top campaign adviser, Justin Clark, and reached out to Giuliani, a move by the former president that also made Barr uncomfortable, who felt these claims of alleged fraud were “foolish” and “erroneous.”
no real evidence
Ben Ginsburg, a Republican electoral lawyer, has also ruled that the former US president had his opportunity to challenge the election results, but that, however, he had no real evidence of fraud, according to the NBC News network.
Also among those who have testified are conservative election attorney Ben Ginsberg, as well as US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, BJay Pak, and former Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt.
In fact, Schmidt has stated that they carefully investigated all of these accusations and even went so far as to investigate an absurd claim of fraud in Philadelphia regarding the vote of more than 8,000 dead people.
In addition, he has told the committee that the threats against him became more specific and more graphic after former President Donald Trump tweeted against him after the 2020 election.
For their part, they have also heard the editor of the Fox News network, Chris Stirewalt, who was fired in January 2021, after declaring that the winner of the 2020 elections in the state of Arizona was Joe Biden.
Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the committee, along with Liz Cheney, has warned that nothing has changed in sectors that support Trump. “The only thing that has changed since January 6, (is that) if they want to run that move again, they will put more loyal people in the Administration,” he warned.
“I think it’s very obvious that the president did nothing but gleefully watch TV while this was going on,” he added.
“The big lie was also the big scam”
But in addition, Democratic legislator Zoe Lofgren, who is part of the investigative committee of the House of Representatives, has pointed out that Trump raised hundreds of millions of dollars from his supporters with his false theories of electoral fraud.
“The big lie was also a big scam,” Lofgre stressed, explaining that he assured his followers that their donations would serve to pay for the lawsuits with which he disputed the electoral result and that were dismissed by the courts.
“He attacked democracy”
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson has said in his opening statement that Trump “lied to his supporters and to the country” about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. “This morning we will tell the story of how Trump lost, and he knew he lost.” , and as a result of his defeat, he decided to attack democracy,” he added.
Thompson has ruled that Trump positioned himself against the American people and has indicated that he “lit the fuse” that led to the assault on Capitol Hill, an insurrection that the committee is investigating and that, after months of collecting evidence, six more hearings are scheduled to determine Trump’s involvement in this tragic event that claimed the lives of five people.
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