“Former President Trump’s plan to overturn the election relied on a sustained effort to deceive Americans with knowingly false claims of election fraud,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. Lofgren said.
Miller said that Giuliani, who would go on to pursue a variety of unsuccessful legal challenges to the election results, was ”definitely intoxicated” during a discussion about what the president should say when he addressed the nation that night.
Though Stepien said he thought it was “far too early to be making any calls like that," Giuliani’s idea clearly resonated with Trump, who began pushing the narrative that Biden and the Democrats were stealing the election from him when he erroneously declared in the early hours of Nov. 4: “Frankly, we did win this election.”
Those who appeared in person were Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News political editor who made the controversial decision to accurately call Arizona for Biden on election night in 2020, conservative election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, who explained how Trump’s legal challenges to the 2020 election results differed from the way such challenges are typically litigated in court;, the former U.S.
Some of the most compelling testimony, however, came from the taped depositions of those who watched Trump’s stolen election narrative take shape in real time. In addition to Barr, Donoghue, Stepien and Miller, other notable witnesses who appeared via video Monday include Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner; Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann; and Trump campaign lawyer Alex Cannon.
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