WASHINGTON — On Election Night 2020, Donald Trump was bombarded by top aides telling him he lost and that his claims about voter fraud were “bullshit," according to their own testimony played Monday by the House Jan. 6 committee.
Instead of listening to White House and campaign senior aides, the advisers said the former president sided with a “definitely intoxicated” Rudy Giuliani to launch a movement that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In its second hearing, the committee played a series of video testimony from some of Trump’s closest political and legal advisers who were virtually unanimous in saying they urged the president that claims of massive fraud were "completely bogus" — and at every overture, Trump simply ignored them and opted instead to listen to Giuliani.
“That’s not the approach I would take,” Trump’s tight-lipped son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said he told the president. “He said I have confidence in Rudy.”
"Out of the box on election night, Trump claimed there was fraud and this happened before there was any potential evidence,” former Attorney General Bill Barr testified, adding later that he “told the president it was bullshit."
"All the early claims that I understood were completely bogus and silly and usually based on complete misinformation,” Barr added. “I thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with— he’s become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff.”
"He’s become detached from reality...
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