A House of Representatives committee said on January 6 that there was no fund to protect Trump’s election, although the campaign was collected by him.
An ad asking for donations for former US President Donald Trump is visible as it is presented as evidence and is shown on screen above US Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), President Benny Thompson (D-MS), Vice President US Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) and US Representative Adam Kinsinger (R-IL) are holding the second public hearing of the House of Representatives elected committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol. Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, June 13, 2022
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The House of Representatives election commission, which is investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, said it had found that former President Donald Trump’s campaign fund had never existed.
“The elected committee has found that such a fund does not exist,” said Amanda Wick, a member of the committee’s senior investigative adviser who is investigating the uprising.
New video evidence presented to the public during the hearing shows two former Trump campaign officials arguing during testimony that the fund once existed.
“I don’t believe there is a fund called the Election Protection Fund,” said Hannah Allred, who was named by the commission as a former Trump campaign official. Gary Kobe, a former digital director of Trump’s campaign, told the committee that the defense fund was part of marketing tactics.
Trump’s campaign has been regularly trying to raise money since the former president lost the November 2020 election, encouraging donors to donate to what fundraising ideas called the “official election defense fund.” The commission found that the campaign by Trump and her allies raised nearly $ 100 million in the first week after the election.
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Former Philadelphia commissioner: After Trump tweeted my name, the threats became “much more graphic”
Former Philadelphia commissioner Al Schmid testified during a hearing by the Electoral Committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol at the Cannon House office building on June 13, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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Former Philadelphia commissioner Al Schmid told the election commission that threats against him had become “much more pictorial” and began to include details of his family after then-President Donald Trump criticized him in a tweet.
Schmidt, a Republican officer in charge of overseeing the Philadelphia election in 2020, dismissed some of Trump’s allegations of fraud in a 60-minute interview days after the election.
Trump tweeted: “A man named Al Schmid, a Philadelphia commissioner and so-called Republican (RINO), is used by many fake news media to explain how fair things are about the Philadelphia election. He refuses to look at the mountain out of corruption and dishonesty. We win! “
Schmid said he had already received threats as part of his job. But after Trump called him by name, “the threats became much more specific, much more pictorial, and included not only me by name, but my family members by name, their age, our address, pictures of our home, just every little detail you can imagine, “Schmid said to the selected committee.
“That has changed with this tweet,” he said.
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Bar has repeatedly criticized Trump’s allegations of election fraud, such as “bulls —“, “crazy”, “nonsense”
Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr is seen on video during his testimony at a public hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Election Commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 9 June 2022
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Former Attorney General William Barr has repeatedly and colorfully dismissed the wide range of conspiracies to defraud voters circulated by Trump and some of his allies since his loss in the 2020 election, according to a video of his interviews with the commission.
Bar tore down some of these conspiracy theories, such as “bulls —“, “nonsense”, “idiotic” and “crazy things”, and said he had told Trump in his face after the election that the allegations were “not justified.” He headed the Ministry of Justice from February 14, 2019 to December 23, 2020.
The panel released a video of Bar recounting a meeting in the Oval Office a few weeks after the November 3, 2020 election, in which he had to tell Trump that the Justice Department “is not an extension of your legal team” and cannot be used to “take an election side” by investigating allegations of fraud.
“We will look at something if it is concrete, credible and could affect the outcome of the election, and we are doing that and it is simply not worthy, they are not presenting themselves,” he said.
After seeing Trump spread these allegations on Fox News, Bar told an Associated Press reporter on December 1, 2020, that the Justice Department had not seen a large-scale fraud that would affect the outcome of the election. At his next meeting with Trump, Bar said he thought he would be fired, telling the committee that “the president was as crazy as I’ve seen him.” The then president accused him of making the statement, “because you hate Trump.”
Elsewhere, Bar recalls: “I told him that the things his people poured out on the public were bulls —. I mean, the allegations of fraud are bulls —. And he was outraged by that. “
“I said, they’ve been wasting a whole month on these allegations about these Dominion voting machines, and these are idiotic allegations.” of Joe Biden, are “disturbing” in that they “saw absolutely zero ground” for them.
“But they were done in such a sensational way that they obviously influenced many members of society,” even though they were “complete nonsense,” Bar said.
“I told him these were crazy things and they were wasting their time on it, and that’s doing the country a disservice,” Bar said.
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Former Trump campaign manager says he and McCarthy tried to persuade Trump’s mail ballots to be OK
Video of an interview with former Trump campaign manager William Stephen (left) and his lawyer Kevin Marino released during a hearing by the Electoral Commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 13 at the Cannon House office building on June 13. , 2022 in Washington, DC.
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Former Trump campaign leader Bill Stepien told the committee that he and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, had met with Trump to reassure him that postal ballots were not on display. high risk of fraud, as the former commander of … the boss discouraged voters from using them.
“We made a point about why we thought postal voting, postal voting was not a bad thing for his campaign, but, you know, the president’s decision was made,” Stepien said in a new testimony presented at the hearing.
The meeting with Trump took place in the summer of 2020, when the president publicly tore up the idea of using ballot papers to be used for voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Mail ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country because they are frauds,” Trump told a White House briefing that year.
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“Definitely intoxicated” Rudy Giuliani says Trump must declare victory on election night, says campaign aide
Former Trump campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani was shown on screen during a hearing by the Special Commission to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 13, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was “definitely intoxicated” on the night of the 2020 election when he told the White House that then-President Donald Trump should simply declare victory over Joe Biden, said a former Trump aide. Jason Miller.
Miller said he noticed that Giuliani was drunk when he and other officials, including former campaign manager Bill Stepien and then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, gathered at the White House to listen to what Giuliani wanted to say to Trump.
“The mayor was definitely intoxicated, but I didn’t know his level of intoxication when he spoke to the president, for example,” Miller said as part of an interview with the selected committee, videos of which were released during the hearing.
“There were suggestions from, I believe it was Mayor Giuliani, to go and declare victory and say we won it outright,” Miller said. He said he remembered saying then that Trump should not declare victory until the numbers became clearer.
Giuliani effectively said, “We won it, they steal it from us, where all the votes come from, we have to go and say we won,” and essentially anyone who disagreed with that position was weak, “Miller said. before investigators.
In a separate interview, Stepien told the committee it was “too early” to make such a statement.
In the early hours of November 4, 2020, Trump falsely stated, “Honestly, we won this election.”
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The “big lie” was also the “big theft,” Lofgren said of Trump’s fundraising.
US Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) speaks during the second public hearing of the US House of Representatives committee to investigate the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, in Capitol Hill, Washington, USA, June 13 2022
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Zoe Lofgren of California, a member of the House of Representatives election committee on Jan. 6, says they plan to show how the Trump campaign robbed their supporters by convincing them to contribute to their legal fight against the 2020 election results.
Lofgren says donors have been deceived and much of that contribution has not actually been used in a possible lawsuit.
“We will also show how the Trump campaign is using these false allegations of election fraud to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters who have been told their donations are for the legal battle in court,” Lofgren said. “But Trump’s campaign didn’t use the money for that. The big lie was also a big theft.”
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