Trump refused calls from top officials to shut down false fraud claims

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The Jan. 6 panel's goal for public hearing 2 was to reveal how deliberately Trump peddled election conspiracies and contradicted facts that were clearly presented to him. They did so by having those in his inner circle provide the evidence themselves.

, but he continued to push the "Big Lie" anyway according to witnesses and taped depositions featured during the second public hearing of the Jan. 6 committee.The committee's Day 2 goal was to reveal how deliberately the former president peddled election conspiracies and contradicted facts that were clearly presented to him.

“I told the president myself that several times, in several conversations, that these allegations about ballots being smuggled in a suitcase and run through the machines several times, it was not true.”, the former U.S. district attorney in Atlanta who abruptly resigned before the Jan. 6 riot, said he was asked by Barr to investigate Giuliani's voter fraud claims in Georgia and was "unable to find any evidence of fraud which affected the outcome of the election.

"I didn't mind being categorized as part of Team Normal," Stepien said in a previously taped deposition with the panel.a former Trump White House official and adviser,

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