Arizona House spokesman says he rejected Giuliani’s demands for vote fraud

Republican Liz Cheney, deputy chairman of the House of Representatives election commission investigating the Jan. 6 uprising, said the same people who pressured former Vice President Mike Pence to reject the election were also working to put pressure on government officials.

“Donald Trump had a direct and personal role in this effort, as did Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman,” Cheney said in his opening remarks at today’s hearing. “In other words, the same people who were trying to put pressure on Vice President Mike Pence to reject illegal voting in the election were also working to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election at the state level.

“Each of these efforts to cancel the election is serious in itself,” she added.

“Everyone deserves attention from both Congress and our Department of Justice,” Cheney said.

At its third hearing last month, the commission sought to link Trump’s campaign against Pence to the January 6 violence, combining testimony from Pence’s aides, Trump’s public statements and comments from Capitol rebels. The commission has shown that Trump has been repeatedly told that Pence’s plan to cancel the election is illegal, but he still tried to do so.

Cheney said that these pressure campaigns were made for a broader purpose and “all this was done in preparation for January 6.”

She reiterated the commission’s view that Trump had been told there was no basis for his allegations of electoral fraud.

Cheney released a video of former Attorney General William Barr in recorded testimony saying the allegations were “baseless.”

“We looked at it carefully ourselves, and based on our review, including interviews with key witnesses, Fulton County’s allegations were … unfounded. The ballots under the table were legal ballots. They were not in a suitcase, “Bar said in the video.

Background: At a previous hearing in committee, BJay Pak, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, testified that his office found that the alleged “suitcase full of ballots” in Georgia was an official key box.