The Department of Justice may USA do not end up accusing donald trump for the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, a insurrection for which the Republican has already passed a political trial, his second ‘impeachment’. The credulous and faithful of the former president, and certainly he himself, may not move an inch from his positions. What is certain is that the committee of the Lower House is making an effort so that the citizens do not forget and know in great detail the “conspiracy” that led to that “coup attempt & rdquor;, in whose center he places Trump. And this Monday, after a first televised public hearing in prime time on Thursday that served as a presentation, the committee has begun to go through that plot step by step, starting with an effective presentation that dismantles “the big lie & rdquor; de Trump on a no electoral fraud.
The central basis of that story was already known. Trump had long questioned the integrity of the electoral system and raised the specter of potential fraud. He spent months (years really) attacking mail-in voting, which Democrats traditionally favor and whose use soared in pandemic elections. When election night came, ignored advisers and experts who explained to him that the recount of that vote by mail prevented the initial advantage from being definitively given and he went out for a victory speech.
When that anticipated “red mirage & rdquor; It was followed by the also expected “blue turn & rdquor ;, which gave the victory to the Democrat Joe BidenTrump continued insisting on maintaining the accusations of fraud, even when he heard from his advisers and allies that they had no basis. Specifically, it has been known from the mouth of the former Attorney General William Barr who personally told him that they were “a absolute rubbish & rdquor;“a craziness”, “a without sense”, “idiots” Y “silly”. Today, despite everything, Trump continues to maintain them.
“The great scam & rdquor;
supported by others allies like Rudy Giuliani, in addition, the president opened a unsuccessful legal fight and one lobbying campaign to try to reverse the results. and launched a aggressive fundraising campaign purportedly intended to fund those lawsuits, which the committee has revealed succeeded $250 million.
The money, as Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, who has carried the weight of this Monday’s session, has denounced, did not go to a non-existent “electoral defense fund & rdquor; but largely to a Political Action Committee and to organizations and people close to Trump, including five million for the group that organized the demonstration on January 6 that preceded the assault on the Capitol. “The great lie was also the great scam & rdquor;said Lofgren.
“Detached from reality & rdquor;
That most of the story was known through press articles and investigations or through books has not subtracted an iota of strength from this Monday’s view. And that power has been based on the fact that it has been carried out largely through video fragments of the interviews they had with the investigators of the advisory committee and senior officials of the Trump Administration such as Barr; Matt Morgan, attorney for the campaign or the advisers Jason Miller, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Fragments of the interviews with Bill Stephen, that he was a manager of the 2020 campaign, that he was going to testify in person under subpoena but has been absent because his wife has gone into labor.
Perhaps the most devastating testimony is that of barrwho told investigators that “there was never any indication of interest (from Trump) in what the facts were authentic & rdquor ;. Barr has also said that the president “had detached from reality if he really believed those things & rdquor; about fraud that characters like Giuliani fed him. Despite what he has told investigators, and despite the fact that he resigned, barrstaunch Trump ally in his time as head of the Justice Department, He said that he would vote for him again.
The testimonies shown this Monday have also portrayed a Trump increasingly “discontented & rdquor; with what was known as his “regular team& rdquor ;, the one who warned him about the baselessness of the accusations of fraud, and more delivered to characters who promoted them as Giuliani. He spoke with the president at the White House on election night and Miller confirmed to committee investigators that the former New York mayor that night “I had drunk too much & rdquor ;.
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In the view of this Monday there have also been testimonies in person. One has been that of Chris Stirewalt, a person in charge of FoxNews who passionately defended the decision to Declare Biden’s victory in Arizona before anyone elsea. that decision “He got angry and frustrated & rdquor; Trump, Miller said, and Stirewalt ended up costing him his dismissal from the conservative networkwhich, unlike Thursday in prime time, This Monday morning he has transmitted the view.
Also testifying has been an Atlanta prosecutor who resigned after refusing to succumb to pressure to support baseless allegations of fraud and a Philadelphia city commissioner who has also rejected such pressure and has detailed how, after a Trump’s tweetshot up direct threats of violence towards him and his family.