“As you will see, this misinformation campaign provoked the violence on January 6th.”įor those who accept Trump’s baseless claims, Barr’s testimony was especially jarring. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the panel’s vice chair. “President Trump invested millions of dollars of campaign funds purposely spreading false information, running ads he knew were false, and convincing millions of Americans that the election was corrupt and he was the true president,” said Rep. Capitol said one of their goals is to show how Trump repeatedly lied to his supporters in an effort to hold onto power and subvert American democracy. The lawmakers leading the hearings into the deadly attack on the U.S. against efforts to appoint a loyalist as attorney general who championed false.
Benner, supra note 38 see also Katie Benner, Former Acting Attorney General Testifies About Trump’s Efforts to Subvert Election, N.Y. Michael Luttig, a Republican who is testifying at Thursday’s January 6 committee hearing, will provide a sharp condemnation of former President Donald Trump’s attempts to. “If you believe what Trump says, and now Bill Barr and Trump’s own daughter are saying these other things, it creates a crack, and people have to fill it.” As Trumps top White House lawyer, Cipollone was in the West Wing on Jan. Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen rejected Clark’s attempts, and President Trump considered firing Rosen and replacing him with Clark. “It’s cognitive dissonance,” said Jennifer Stromer-Galley, a Syracuse University professor who has studied how Trump used social media and advertising to mobilize his base.