With gripping testimony, the panel is laying out in step-by-step fashion how Donald Trump ignored his own campaign team’s data as one state after another flipped to Joe Biden, and instead latched on to conspiracy theories.
With gripping testimony,
Barr called the voting fraud claims “bull——,” “bogus” and “idiotic,” and resigned in the aftermath. “I didn’t want to be a part of it.”and the countless ways those around him tried to convince the defeated Republican president they were not true, and he had simply lost the election. Son-in-law Jared Kushner tried to steer Trump away from Giuliani and his far-flung theories of voter fraud. The president would have none of it.
Nine people died in the riot and its aftermath, including a Trump supporter shot and killed by Capitol police. More than 800 people have been arrested, andhave been indicted on rare sedition charges over their roles leading the charge into the Capitol. As the hearings play out for the public, they are also being watched by one of the most important viewers, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who must decide. No sitting or former president has ever faced such an indictment.
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