Former Trump Campaign Manager says he and McCarthy tried to convince Trump’s mail ballot that it was okay.
A video from an interview with former President Trump campaign manager William Steppin (L) and his lawyer Kevin Marino shows an attack on the US Capitol on January 6 at the Cannon House office building on June 13. Played during a hearing by a selection committee to investigate, 2022 Washington, DC.
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Former Trump campaign chief Bill Stepien told the committee that he and Republican house minority leader Kevin McCarthy met Trump and convinced the mail ballot that the risk of fraud was not as high as the former commander. rice field. The chief discouraged voters from using them.
In a new testimony released at the hearing, Stepien argued that “we argued that mail voting, mail voting was not bad for his campaign, but the president’s heart was decided.” Stated. ..
The meeting with Trump took place in the summer of 2020, when the president publicly broke the idea of mail voting used for voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Postal ballots are very dangerous for the country because they are fraudsters,” Trump said. I said at the White House briefing that year.
— Brian Schwartz
“Definitely drunk,” Rudy Giuliani said Trump should declare victory on election night, campaign aide says.
Former Trump Campaign Attorney Rudy Giuliani appears on screen during a hearing by a selection committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the US Capitol on June 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. ..
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he was “definitely drunk” when he said at the White House on the night of the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump would only have to declare victory over Joe Biden. Former Trump campaign aide Jason Miller said.
Miller was intoxicated when Giuliani gathered at the White House to hear what Giuliani wanted to say to Trump, when he and other officials, including former campaign manager Bill Stepien and then Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, gathered at the White House. He said he noticed that he was doing it.
“The mayor was definitely intoxicated, but when I talked to the president, for example, I didn’t know his level of intoxication,” Miller said as part of an interview with the special committee.
“I think it was Mayor Giuliani who declared the victory and said he had won completely,” Miller said. He said he remembered at the time saying that Trump should not declare victory until the numbers became clearer.
Giuliani effectively says, “We won it, they are stealing it from us, where all the votes came from, we need to say we won.” And those who essentially disagree with that position are weak. “
In another interview, Stephen told the Commission that it was “too early” to make such a statement.
Earlier on November 4, 2020, Mr. Trump erroneously claimed that “frankly, we won this election.”
— — Kevin Breuninger
“Big lie” was also a “big lie,” Lofgren talks about Trump’s funding.
US House of Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) is the US House of Representatives Selection Committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol on June 13, 2022 at Capitol Hill, Washington, USA. I will give a lecture at the second hearing of.
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How the Trump Campaign Supports Supporters by Persuading D-Calif Rep. Zoelovgren, a member of the House Select Commission on January 6, to contribute to the legal battle against the 2020 election results. He said he would show if he had stolen it.
Lofgren says donors were fooled and many of those donations weren’t actually used in the final court battle.
“We also show that the Trump campaign used these false election fraud claims to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters who were allegedly donated to a court battle in court,” Lofgren said. He said. “But the Trump campaign didn’t spend money on it. The big lie was also a big rip-off.”
— Brian Schwartz
Thompson says Trump “decided to launch an attack on our democracy.”
The special committee explains how Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, but instead of admitting, he “decided to carry out an attack on our democracy,” D- Miss Benny Thompson said at the beginning of the hearing.
“The numbers don’t lie,” Thompson said of the election results. If they don’t add up, you can go to court — and “it’s the end of the line,” he said.
“I didn’t have a number. He went to court. He didn’t have a number yet. He lost,” Thompson said.
At a hearing on Tuesday, “Talking about how Donald Trump lost the election” and “I knew he was defeated” decided to launch an attack on our democracy. Said the chairman.
— — Kevin Breuninger
Trump Campaign Manager stopped hearing after his wife gave birth, NBC reports.
A video from an interview with former President Trump campaign manager William Steppin (L) and his lawyer Kevin Marino shows an attack on the US Capitol on January 6 at the Cannon House office building on June 13. Played during a hearing by a selection committee to investigate, 2022 Washington, DC.
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Former Trump 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien’s wife gave birth on Monday morning, preventing him from testifying under a subpoena at a second hearing on January 6, NBC News reported.
The panel announced a schedule shake-up within the hour when the hearing was originally scheduled to begin. The news delayed the scheduled start of the 10 am ET hearing by 30 to 45 minutes.
The panel intends to play a video of Stephen’s tape-based testimony recording instead, sources told NBC.
— — Kevin Breuninger
