Donald Trump was told the same thing over and over, by his campaign team, the data crunchers, and a steady stream of lawyers, investigators and inner-circle allies: There was no voting fraud that could have tipped the 2020 presidential election.
Donald Trump was told the same thing over and over, by his campaign team, the data crunchers, and a steady stream of lawyers, investigators and inner-circle allies: There was no voting fraud that could have tipped the 2020 presidential election. But in the eight weeks after losing to Joe Biden, the defeated president publicly, privately and relentlessly pushed his false claims of a rigged 2020 election and intensified an extraordinary scheme to overturn Mr Biden’s victory. The scale and virulence of that scheme began to take shape under the glare of the House hearing investigating the US Capitol riots on January 6. When the panel resumes on Monday, it will outline the stark reality that Mr Trump and his advisers knew early on that he had in fact lost the election, but engaged “in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information” to convince the public otherwise. When all else failed in his effort to stay in power, Mr Trump beckoned his supporters to come to Washington on January 6, 2021, the day the Congress traditionally certifies the electoral results from the states, and told thousands of people who gathered outside the White House to march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Extremist groups led the way, breaking into the historic seat of democracy, and laying siege.
“Over multiple months, Donald Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power,” Rep Liz Cheney told the hearing on Thursday night.
