The recorded testimony of Rona Romney McDaniel, chairman of the Republican National Committee, was played on Tuesday. (Commission interview on 6 January)
The leader of the Republican Party testified before the election commission of the House of Representatives that former President Donald Trump called her as part of an effort to use fake voters to support him.
The new detail links Trump directly to efforts to represent fraudulent, alternative constituencies in states he lost, even though his top White House and campaign lawyers knew the approach was not legally sound.
“Essentially, he transferred the call to Mr. [John] Eastman, who then went on to talk about the importance of the RNC in helping the campaign bring together these contingent voters, “said Rona Romney McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, in her recorded testimony. “My understanding is that the campaign really took the lead and we just helped them in that role.”
She noted that voters would come together if Trump’s legal challenges managed to block Biden’s victories.
However, the campaign was not entirely on board.
Some senior Trump and White House officials believed the fake election plan was illegal and left pressure on lawyers such as Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, who had filled up after the election, the commission said.
In an interview with the commission, Cassidy Hutchinson, an assistant to the White House chief of staff, confirmed to the commission that lawyers with a White House adviser said the plot was not legally sound. She said the meeting was attended by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
“However,” said Adam Schiff, “Trump’s campaign continued with the scheme anyway.”
Two of the campaign’s leading lawyers, Matt Morgan and Justin Clark, said in their recorded testimony that they had told Trump’s lawyers, who were running a fraudulent voter scheme, that they did not want to run.
“You just get out. I’m out,” Clark told the House about a conversation he had with another lawyer who backed the fake electorate plan, Kenneth Chesebro. “I don’t think that’s appropriate. That’s not the right thing to do.”
Morgan described directing another campaign official to tell Chesebro, “This is your job. You are responsible for the progress of the Electoral College. That was my way of reducing that responsibility to zero. “
It was not known before Clark that he had spoken to the House Election Committee before Tuesday.
A source familiar with Clark’s testimony says he testified “long ago” and that Trump is probably unhappy that his former leading campaign lawyer says his campaign essentially did not have a case to support the lies. Trump.
Clark is still working with Trump. Last year, he directed witnesses called by the House of Representatives to retain the privilege of the executive branch, and he represented Trump in his failed call to try to stop the White House from issuing White House documents from the National Archives.
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