Tuesday’s hearing will require investigators to delve into the sordid world of internet extremism and specifically lay out how Trump’s words rippled through its corners. | Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo
By Nicholas Wu and Kyle Cheney
07/12/2022 04:31 AM EDT
Updated: 07/12/2022 02:24 PM EDT
A swath of Donald Trump’s top advisers and Cabinet officials began urging him to concede defeat by mid-December 2020, after the Electoral College’s official vote to make Joe Biden president, according to testimony the Jan. 6 committee aired Tuesday.
At its Tuesday hearing, the select panel revealed video of former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, former White House spokesperson Judd Deere, former Attorney General William Barr and former Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia all testifying that they knew Trump had lost the election after that vote.
Most told Trump so directly, and Barr said he asked White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner how long Trump would keep up his crusade. Both Meadows and Kushner said they were working to convince him to relent.
Instead, Trump pursued a set of startling and draconian plans to remain in power — from using the military to seize voting machines to appointing fringe attorney Sidney Powell to pursue baseless claims of fraud.
“I didn’t think she should be appointed to anything,” said Cipollone in his first publicly aired remarks after interviewing with the select committee last week. The plan to seize voting machines was a “a...
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