A video image of former US president Donald Trump is seen on a screen during a House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 13, 2022.
“When I went into this and would tell him how crazy some of these allegations were, there was never an indication of interest in the actual facts,“ said Barr, who likened addressing Trump’s avalanche of false allegations with playing the game “whack-a-mole.” “We will tell the story of how Donald Trump lost the election -- and knew he lost the election -- and as a result of his loss, decided to wage an attack on our democracy,“ the committee’s Democratic chairman Bennie Thompson said in his opening remarks.
Trump started pushing what came to be known as his “Big Lie” around 2:30 am on November 4, 2020, prematurely declaring victory on the night of an election he ultimately lost to Biden by seven million votes. Cheney highlighted “far-flung conspiracies” -- dismissed as “nonsense” by Barr -- of fraud involving voting machines “with a deceased Venezuelan Communist allegedly pulling the strings.”The committee says the initial claim of fraud grew quickly into a conspiracy to cling to power by Trump and his inner circle -- and a fundraising campaign that raised $250 million between election night and the Capitol insurrection.
“The big lie was also a big rip-off,“ she said, promising to show how the Trump campaign raised hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters who were falsely led to believe their donations would be used for the legal fight over fraud claims.
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