Trump made a fateful choice in the early morning hours of Dec. 19, 2020, days after the Electoral College voted, to choose a path that led to the insurrection on Jan. 6.
She added that perhaps more than anyone else in the country, Trump had access to"detailed and specific information" showing that claims of widespread fraud in the election were not true, but he chose not to believe it.
Team Conspiracy was let into the White House complex by a junior staffer without the knowledge of the White House lawyers. The lawyers were determined to stop what the other team was proposing to the president, including the immediate mass seizure of voting machines by the U.S. military. "Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"
Both men testified that they, and people like them, were inspired to go to Washington on Jan. 6 because of that tweet. Trump knew the power of his tweets, and from past hearings, it was clear he knew his supporters could get violent on Jan. 6. Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified that Trump was warned by former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and others of that possibility.
The committee showed that extremists seemed to have some prior knowledge of what was going to happen on Jan. 6, notably that Trump was going to order people to march to the Capitol.
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