Washington (CNN)Many of former President Donald Trump's own officials knew that his false claims about the 2020 election were false. In some cases, they told him to his face that his information was wrong.
Testimony to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has revealed that it wasn't only journalists, elections officials and Democrats who were rejecting Trump's lies about what happened in the election he lost but claimed to win. People Trump selected for important positions, from his campaign manager to the US attorney general, were also saying -- mostly in private -- that Trump's fraud allegations were baseless.
The January 6 hearings are ongoing, and the public has only seen committee-selected video clips of certain former officials' testimony. We know that some other figures in Trump's orbit were joining him in promoting lies about the election, not rejecting those lies.
But the hearings have already shown that Trump's government appointees or people on his campaign dismissed at least 10 of his false claims -- from the overarching lie that the election was stolen to various specific tales about what happened in swing states he lost.
Trump has incessantly repeated the false claim that the election was stolen from him -- baselessly insisting that he would have been returned to the White House if not for massive fraud and other nefarious Democratic behavior.
But William Barr, who...
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