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Here’s a major take away from today’s 1-6 Committee Hearing.
Trump knew ...
www.theguardian.com
Trump knew he lost the election
Trump privately admitted to losing the 2020 election even as he worked to undermine and change the results, according to two top aides who testified before the January 6 committee. Alyssa Farah, a former White House aide, who said that a week after the election was called in favor of Biden, Trump was watching Biden on the television in the Oval Office, and said: “‘Can you believe I lost to this effing guy?’”
In another new clip of testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, shared that Trump told Meadows: “I don’t want people to know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. Figure it out.”
www.npr.org
Despite publicly declaring he won, Trump privately admitted he lost the election. Testimony from former White House officials demonstrate that while the president was publicly forging a campaign to overturn the election, he privately was acknowledging his loss.
In an audio clip, Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that while in the Oval Office, Trump said something to the effect of "We lost, we need to let that issue go to the next guy."
www.usatoday.com
Committee: Trump knew he lost, but still lied to overturn the election
If there's one point the committee wants to drive home, it is this: Trump knew he had lost the 2020 election, yet still made improper — and possibly illegal — efforts to overturn that loss to President Joe Biden.
The hearing has included videos from a variety of former aides, from Attorney General William Barr to lower-level lawyers, explaining why Trump's claims of voter fraud were mistakes or simply lies.
“Donald Trump maliciously repeated this nonsense to a wide audience over and over again," said Rep. Elaine Luria. D-Va. "His intent was to deceive.”
[Here’s is the Video segment by Rep Luria that focused on this theme.]
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Now tell us something, we didn’t know already.
At least there are several witnesses on the record now, attesting to the fact, that Trump knew he had lost.
Andrew Weissmann, commenting on these witnesses and Trump’s own admissions, said, ‘this goes a long way towards proving criminal intent and premeditation.’
Trump was informed again and again that he had lost, that there was no evidence to back up his “fanciful claims” (as AG Barr put it).
Yet Trump continued promoting his false narrative anyways, right up to the point of interfering with an Official Proceeding (or in the common vernacular, starting an Insurrection).
Trump knew.
And he did the criminal acts anyways. You know what that makes him …
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