Former President Donald Trump on Friday responded to the House of Representatives election commission investigating the events of January 6, 2021.
“There is no clearer example of the threatening spirit that has engulfed the American left from the infamous show organized by the Non-Election Commission,” Trump said at a conference hosted by the Coalition for Faith and Freedom in Nashville, Tennessee.
“They are frauds,” Trump continued. “They are frauds.”
The commission held three of the seven public hearings scheduled for this month, outlining what it saw as a “complex seven-part plan” for Trump and his supporters to undo his loss in the 2020 election by Joe Biden.
Trump was aware of the fact that he had lost, the committee argued, using testimony from members of his inner circle. But he still moved forward with an illegal conspiracy to stay in power and raised millions of dollars in the process of spreading the “big lie” that he was the real winner.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr told the commission in a recorded testimony that Trump’s allegations of electoral fraud were “beech.” Ivanka Trump, also ousted earlier by the commission, said she agreed with Bar’s conclusion that the election had not been stolen.
Trump – who has already denied his daughter’s testimony – on Friday accused the commission of taking the recorded testimony out of context.
“The committee refuses to release any of the recordings of people saying good things, the things we want to hear,” he said. “It’s a one-way street. It’s a rigged deal.”
Trump also criticized the Republicans who crossed him and sat on the committee: Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinsinger of Illinois.
Former President Donald Trump spoke at a conference on the road to the majority, June 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Thursday’s latest hearing focused on intense pressure from Trump and others on then-Vice President Mike Pence to single-handedly reject state voters and block congressional credentials for Biden’s victory.
The pressure campaign put Pence in jeopardy, lawmakers and witnesses said, as the vice president was forced to hide underground for more than four hours after approaching 40 feet from a crowd of rebels in the Capitol.
When Pence refused to follow Trump’s plan, a “hot” phone call followed on the morning of January 6, Ivanka Trump and other witnesses told the committee. One of Trump’s associates in the Oval Office at the time recalled that Trump mockingly called Pence a “weakling.”
Trump said Friday that he never called Pence “weak,” but continues to annoy his vice president for not sending election results back to state legislatures, something both Trump and Pence have repeatedly advised is illegal, according to testimony given at the commission’s January 6 hearing.
“Mike didn’t have the courage to act,” Trump said, referring to him as a “robot” and a “human conveyor belt,” as he followed the advice of those who said they had no power to reject state voters.
Former Pence lawyer Greg Jacob and former federal judge Michael Lutig explained to the commission in hours on Thursday that the vice president did not have the authority to do what Trump wanted. Lutig warned that if Pence had followed him, it would have plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis.
Former President Donald Trump spoke at a conference on the road to the majority, June 17, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee.
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On Friday, Trump continued to make false, baseless allegations about the 2020 election, telling the crowd that he did not believe he had lost, even though he had won both the Electoral College and the popular vote, and lost many lawsuits. challenging the election results.
The former president also highlighted the number of people at his rally in Ellipse on January 6, calling it the largest group he has ever spoken to and describing an atmosphere of “incredible love and patriotism”.
Trump even went so far as to judge whether his January 6 speech attracted as many people as the famous 1963 1963 speech I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr.
The House committee has used footage from Ellipse’s speech in numerous hearings to support allegations that Trump has pressured Pence to cancel the election and encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol.
On Friday, Trump also annoyed a potential candidate for president in 2024, promising that if re-elected, he would grant pardon to those persecuted for their involvement in the uprising – which Trump described as a “simple protest” that “came out out of control” “
“Most people don’t have to be treated the way they are treated,” Trump said.
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