Yet one influential figure had the president’s ear. Trump was told by his own campaign team that the numbers just weren’t there for him and by Barr, who told Trump flatly that the claims being made of a fraudulent election were simply “bull-.” Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., opening the committee’s hearings.
“Over and over again,” the defeated president was told there was no evidence of election fraud that could have tipped the outcome to him, said Rep. 3, 2020, election.įrom his campaign manager Bill Stepien, who encouraged Trump on election night to not yet claim victory, to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, who testified she knew it was too early to say he had won.īut Trump nevertheless latched onto false claims of voter fraud and declared himself the winner.
6 public hearings and what’s coming next.Īlmost everyone around Trump understood he was losing the Nov. The “backbone of democracy,” as the committee chairman, Rep. As happened during the anti-communist McCarthy era, the testimony has provoked counter-reaction - a sense of the civic decency coming from civil servants, including many fellow Republicans, who did their jobs, despite grave personal risk, to ensure that the 2020 election was legitimate. Like the Watergate hearings 50 years ago, the 1/6 committee has depicted a president “detached from reality,” as Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, testified. Despite the unprecedented Capitol attack, the hearings carry echoes from U.S.
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