January 6 Committee made case during its fourth hearing on tuesday that former President Trump and his key allies failed find proof of fraud in 2020 election, but tried to pressure GOP election officials to false storytelling anyway.
Why is it important: Pressure campaign result in violent threats to election officials and went so far as to attempt to hand over physical copies of false elector votes Vice President Mike Pence.
big painting: Through the mix of tape-recorded testimony of officials from the Department of Justice and public certificate from key election officials, the committee revealed the breadth of Trump team efforts, namely former Trump lawyers John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis to force government officials to change elections results.
- Trump campaign was call scenario for appeals to legislators support appointment of fraudulent Trump-supporting electors in states where Biden won.
- Meanwhile, state election officials testified that they had repeatedly asked for Trump’s lawyers to present evidence of his allegations of fraud, but never received them.
- Committee also showed human sacrifice false allegations spread by Trump and his team It has on election officials and polling station workers, including death threats and home hacks.
Driving news: Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming), Vice Chair on Panel opened the hearing by saying Trump was aware of his claims that the 2020 election was spread with the fraud was “nonsense”.
- “When you listen to these records, keep in remember Donald Trump already knew at the time he made those calls – he was told over as well as over again it is his stolen the election claims were nonsense,” Cheney said.
- “Donald Trump didn’t care about threats of violence. He did not condemn them, he made no effort to stop them; he left forward with his false accusations anyway.”
Mark Meadow role in Georgia
AT one of the biggest revelations of the hearingsRep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said the committee received text messages indicating former main of staff, Mark Meadows, wanted send election investigators to Georgia “hell of POTUS items, including coins, authentic MAGA hats with autographs, etc.”
- Secretary of Georgia of State COO Brad Raffensperger Gabriel Sterling detailed his efforts to debunk Trump and his teams false narration.
- Sterling said he “lost it” at a December performance after he found out of violent threats to their employees.
- The Sterling presser was met with harsh criticism from Trump and others.
- Sterling testified on Tuesday: “It was unpleasant. Often times I felt our information was getting out but there was a hitch of people that one had to believe it, because the President of United States, who many watched up to and respected, told them that it was not true despite the facts.”
The committee played the audio between Trump and Raffensperger, which showed the degree of how hard in former the president pushed him to look for cases of fraud in Georgia.
- Trump slammed off a series of false claims, each of which Raffensperger exposed in real time during a call with Trump, via audio recording. Trump was heard asking Raffensperger to “find 11,780 people.” votes which one more than ours.”
- “Numbers are numbers and they don’t lie,” Raffensperger testified. “Every accusation that we checked, we down in rabbit trail to do sure our numbers were accurate.”
Raffensperger also testified that Trump’s supporters repeatedly threatened his life and his family, and some eventually hacked into it daughter-in-laws home.
DOJ messed up claims of electoral fraud
Former Trump Justice Department Officials Testify in recorded testimony that they told Trump there was no widespread fraud in Georgia, but he pressured government officials to find claims of still a scam.
- Former Attorney General Bill Barr testified that he told Trump that the allegations of voter fraud in Fulton County, Georgia ‘didn’t have any merit’: ‘We haven’t seen any evidence of fraud in Fulton County episode,” he said.
- Richard Donoghue, former The acting Deputy Attorney General told the committee that he told Trump: “I said something effect of”Sir, we made dozens of research, hundreds of interview. Key claims not supported by evidence developed.’”
Trump campaign put pressure on Michigan’s Laura Cox
- Former Chairman of Michigan GOP Laura Cox told the committee Jan. 6 that the bogus Republican electors were planning to hide in the capital of Michigan building night to satisfy the demand they satisfy in State Senate House: “I told him in there is no certainty terms it was crazy and inappropriate.”
- Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said privately that Trump campaign asked her help facilitate alternative list of electors from Michigan.
Emotional Testimony of Rusty Bowers
Rusty Bowers, Speaker of the House of Representatives in Arizona and a Republican publicly testified on Tuesday he never spokeanyone”anywhere”, “at any time” the elections were rigged.
- Bowers stressed that Trump’s statement earlier Tuesday that he had previously told the then president that he won in Arizona” also false.”
- Bowers also said he demanded that Giuliani and Ellis provide evidence of claims of scam he peddled but they never did. “We have a lot of theories, but we just I have no proof,” Giuliani said, according to Bowers.
- Bowers said he told Eastman he was being asked to do something illegal that never happened. in in history of country. Eastman’s response, according to Bowers, who said he paraphrased “Just do it and let the courts sort it out out.”
Inside the room: Cheney hugged Bowers after his in- facial expressions. Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) shook hands with him.
“Shai” Moss Polling Station Officer tells death threats
Wandrea’ ArShaye “Shaye” Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman electoral workers in Georgia has become a target of vile lies spread by President Trump,” said Committee Chairman Benny Thompson, Mississippi.
- Moss testified in man she got ‘a lot of threats that want death at me, telling me that I will in jail with my mother and say things like “Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.”
- Moss said she was still afraid to leave her. home: “I don’t go to the grocery store generally. I haven’t been anywhere at all. I gained about 60 pounds. I just don’t do anything else. I don’t want go anywhere.”
- Freeman said in behind-closed-door testimony she had to leave home as January 6 approaches amid fears of threats and violence.
- “If the most powerful human in in world can bring full weight of presidency down on ordinary citizen who just doing his job with lie like big and heavy as a mountain who among us safely? Nobody of us. Nobody of usSchiff said after questioning Moss.
Implied for members of Congress
Parting line: Cheney made a plea her republican colleagues and voters for home who are skeptical of the Committee’s conclusions of 6 January.
- “Don’t be distracted by politics. This is serious. We can’t let America become a nation of conspiracy theories and gang violence,” she said.
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