It's hard to reconcile the sworn testimony offered by former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien before the House Jan. 6 select committee with what I heard from him as the headliner on a hastily convened fundraising teleconference about a week after the 2020 election.
Before the House committee, Stepien presented himself as the earnest, sober and honest campaign professional, proud to be labeled as "Team Normal" as opposed to Rudy Giuliani's team, which generated one outlandish false claim after another. Stepien told the panel he chose to step away at an unspecified time after the election because Trump's campaign of disinformation wasn't "necessarily honest or professional."
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Well, he was still on the job back on Nov. 11, 2020, and sounded like a true believer in the Big Lie about widespread voting fraud that Trump had been spouting as early as April of that year, months before the election.
"You know the things with bundling and all of the things that are happening with votes by mail where thousands of votes are gathered," Trump said in April. "And I'm not going to say which party does it, but thousands of votes are gathered and they come in and they're dumped in a location. And then all of a sudden, you lose elections that you think you're going to win."
Trump continued with an infamous phrase: "The only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged. So...
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