Trump ignored the truth and preferred to listen to a drunk Giulani, according to witnesses

Then-President of the United States Donald Trump repeatedly ignored the advice of his advisers on election night and decided to listen to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who, while intoxicated, recommended that he declare himself the winner without waiting for the vote count to finish. .

This was stated by several witnesses in recorded interviews that were reproduced this Monday at a hearing of the legislative committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The committee recreated what happened in the White House during the election night of November 3, 2020 through the testimony of the closest advisers to Trump and his family, who portrayed the then president as someone out of touch with reality who was angry about the results. and that he decided to proclaim himself the winner.

The results of the 2020 elections took three days to arrive, but on the same night of the elections Trump appeared before his supporters to allege without evidence that fraud had occurred and that "frankly" he had won the Democratic candidate and current president, Joe Biden.

"DEFINITELY DRUNK"

As revealed by the committee, Trump made those remarks guided by Giuliani, who had urged him on several occasions to go on stage and declare victory because the Democrats were "stealing" the elections.

"The mayor was definitely drunk"former New York mayor Jason Miller said of Giulani, former Trump presidential campaign spokesman, whose remarks were played on video during the hearing.

The president’s former campaign manager, Bill Stepien, also revealed in another recorded interview that Giuliani had had too much to drink that night and explained that several advisers, including himself, asked Trump to wait until the count was over to make a public statement. .

That night it became clear, according to Stepien, that Trump’s orbit of advisers was separated into two: "the regular team" Y "the crazy team"composed of those who promoted conspiracy theories.

Even some of Trump’s relatives asked him to listen to their advice. One of his daughters, Ivanka Trump, did not have a "firm vision" about whether his father could win, but that night he reminded him that "ballots were still being counted"according to the video shown by the committee.

Additionally, Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, told the then-president that he disagreed with Giuliani’s advice and that he would not follow that approach, advice his father-in-law ignored.

TRUMP, "ALIEN TO REALITY"

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Now-former US Attorney General William Barr painted an even more worrying picture of Trump, who he said never showed "interest in what the true facts were".

Barr described a meeting he had with Trump in December 2020 in which he thought that if he really believed all those fraud lies, then the president had become somebody. "oblivious to reality" and with whom it was no longer possible to reason.

The committee showed several video excerpts from the interview he did with Barr, in which he appears colorfully describing Trump’s lies, which he calls "trash", "complete nonsense" Y "crazy things".

Barr left the leadership of the Justice Department in December 2020, almost a month before Trump left the White House; but until now his disagreements with the former president had not been made public.

FROM THE LIES TO THE ASSAULT ON THE CAPITOL

With the words of Barr and the rest of the advisers, the committee tried to show what were the origins of the false theories about electoral fraud, dismissed by the courts and that led a mass of Trump supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6 of 2021.

That day the certification of Biden’s electoral victory was scheduled, in what until then was a mere parliamentary process, but the mob forced the session to be interrupted.

"He (Trump) and his closest advisers knew these fraud claims were false, but continued to spread them, right up until a mass of Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill."described the legislator Zoe Lofgren.

Lofgren was in charge of directing the second public hearing of the investigating commission, in which different witnesses rejected the idea of ​​fraud.

Witnesses included Benjamin Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election attorney, and BJay Pak, the attorney general for the Northern District of Georgia who resigned after Trump pressured state officials to overturn Biden’s victory in that state.

The last to testify was Al Schmidt, a Republican from the Philadelphia municipal commission who defended the count of votes in that city against the attacks of the then president.

The committee is made up of a majority of Democratic congressmen, although there are two Republican members – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – who are at odds with Trump.

In the assault on the Capitol, five people died, including an officer after suffering a heart attack hours after the assault, and about 140 officers were attacked. In addition, four policemen subsequently committed suicide.

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