On Monday, the third hearing on the attempt to storm the US Congress on January 6, 2021, is underway. the storming. For Trump began early to claim that the election result was based on cheating. There were allegations about polling station staff hiding suitcases with votes, and that the votes of dead voters were counted. All the allegations were rejected both then and in today’s hearing. Jason Miller and Bill Stepien worked as advisers to Trump and the Trump campaign. Photo: JOSHUA ROBERTS / Reuters Committee members are clear that several inside the White House and the Department of Justice repeatedly told Trump that his assumptions were unfounded. Giuliani claims he was drunk when Trump consulted with him This time it is both employees in Trump’s election campaign, in various US states where Trump erroneously claimed that there was election fraud, and the former Minister of Justice William Barr who stood in the witness box. Among them were the two advisers Jason Miller and Bill Stepien. They tell the committee that they thought it was too early to say that Trump had won the election, when he declared victory the day after election day in 2020. Then Trump turned to Rudy Giuliani instead, Miller explains. Trump hired the former mayor of New York as part of his legal advisory team in 2018. Giuliani, who according to Miller seemed drunk at the time, thought Trump should declare victory. That advice was taken by Trump. Later, Giuliani was to be important in making false claims that the election was rigged. Among other things, from a parking lot outside a garden center in Philadelphia. Media such as the New York Times writes that today a picture has been created of, among other things, Giuliani pouring petrol on the fire in the allegations of election fraud. Clips of William Barr’s testimony appear before the US Congress. Photo: JABIN BOTSFORD / AFP In a clip of the testimony of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Kushner says that he disagreed with Giuliani’s performance. “I guess I’m not quite what I would have done if I were you,” Kushner explained of what he said to Trump about the allegations of electoral fraud. Accusations were “bullshit” The committee also shows clips from the testimony of then Justice Minister William Barr. He repeatedly stressed that he meant, and told Trump, that the allegations of electoral fraud were “bullshit.” – He has lost his grip on reality if he really believes in this here, says Barr in the clip shown in the congress. Former Attorney General William Barr believes all allegations of electoral fraud are “bullshit”. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP Barr further claimed that Trump already on election night believed that there had been election fraud. That was before there was an opportunity to look at the evidence. – It seemed that he based himself on the fact that towards the end of the evening a lot of votes came in for the Democrats. And that changed the vote count in several states. And it seemed like that was what they based the allegation of electoral fraud on, says Barr. CNN writes that Barr’s testimony supports the committee’s claim that Trump began to lay the groundwork for his theories that the election was rigged, long before he could prove such theories. The committee says they can document that Trump collected money that was spent on other things than what he said they should after the election was over. Photo: JONATHAN ERNST / Reuters Requests investigation of fundraising During the hearing, the committee members also discuss Trump’s fundraising after the election. He claimed to have set up a fund to defend the election result and fight electoral fraud. $ 250 million was raised for this purpose. But the committee has found that the money was given, among other things, to the personal foundation of Trump’s chief of staff, and to Trump’s own hotels. – We have found evidence that the Trump campaign deceived donors, and said that they should spend the money on things they were not spent on. So it was not only a big lie, but also a big scam, says committee member and congressional representative Zoe Lofgren. These photos show what happened when Congress stormed on January 6, 2021. Members request that the US Department of Justice investigate the money Trump collected for his campaign, and claim that it was used in completely different ways than in the campaign. – They told people a big lie, and asked for their money. They said they needed it for the election, to defend the election result, but there was no fund for this purpose, says committee member and congressional representative Adam Schiff according to CNN.
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