The commission investigating Jan. 6 and the attack on Congress began with bombings on Thursday showing a number of his most trusted aides and advisers, including his daughter Ivanka Trump, explaining they know the election was not stolen.
The president’s eldest daughter was in one of the first videos released by committee members during their opening remarks at Thursday’s hearing; during a speech by spokeswoman Liz Cheney, the congressman showed Ms. Trump a White House aide to explain how she accepted Attorney General Bill Barr’s claim that the election was fair and fraudulent.
“I respected AG Barr and accepted what he said,” Ms. Trump told the committee in her testimony.
Her remarks directly contradict the former president’s numerous lies about the 2020 election, which he still refuses to accept as losing, and proves that Mr Trump’s inner circle has warned him that he is spreading misinformation a lot. before January 6.
The video followed several other videos of Trump insiders making similar statements. Among them was Jason Miller, Trump’s campaign deputy, who explained how the campaign’s data team knew, even as election results rolled, that the president would lose heavily.
She also revealed how members of the GOP group in the House of Representatives, who have been vehemently opposed to any effort to investigate the attack for more than a year, contacted the President’s White House in the days after the uprising, hoping to be pardoned for potential criminal liability to which they were exposed during the attack or in previous weeks.
Thursday’s committee hearing is one of two prime-time hearings the committee plans to hold next month.
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