Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump addresses supporters from the White House shortly after 2 a.m. on Wednesday.
In the weeks after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, his administration drafted a memo calling for anyone who didn't believe the election was fraudulent to be fired.
The news comes via a new report released by the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, which took the deposition of Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.
In Cipollone's deposition, which was released Friday, investigators mention a memo drafted by White House staffers in December 2020, a month after Trump lost the election, that ended with: "Anybody that thinks there wasn't massive fraud in the 2020 election should be fired."
The draft statement, which was never released, came weeks after former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr pushed back at Trump's unfounded claims of fraud, publicly stating there was no evidence of voter fraud "that could have affected a different outcome in the election."
Barr resigned from office after affirming that there was no fraud, but Trump continued to tout his false claims.
Matt McClain-Pool/Getty Images; Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images Bill Barr, Donald Trump
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