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House Capitol Riot Hearing….Day 2…..Trump ‘Detached for Reality’…..

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That assessment from President Trump’s Attorney General, who seems to be working hard to rehabilitate the view of him while he served as Trump’s enabler for quite some time while in office….

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection asserted in its second hearing Monday that the Capitol attack was the direct result of Donald Trump’s repeated baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Trump continued pursuing ever-outlandish claims of election fraud — then fundraised off of those false claims — despite being told repeatedly that Joe Biden had won the race fairly, according to testimony from those who had been close to the former president.

The committee played video of its deposition with former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, in which Stepien said he advised Trump on election night that it was too early to call the race and that they needed to wait until early and mail-in ballots were counted. Trump objected to that advice, Stepien said, and claimed that night that he had won, baselessly calling the race a “fraud” and an “embarrassment.”

Stepien told the committee that Trump’s orbit had cleaved into “Team Crazy” vs. “Team Normal” and that he was glad to be on the latter. However, Trump was increasingly listening only to allies who pushed conspiracy theories about the election.

“I was somewhat demoralized because I thought, boy … he has become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff,” former Trump attorney general William P. Barr said, according to video testimony the committee played Monday. “When I went into this and would tell them how crazy some of these allegations were, there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were.”

Here’s what to know

  • Monday’s hearing follows a prime-time hearing Thursday in which the panel began making its case that the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was the violent culmination of a coup attempt. In the second hearing, panel members also addressed how Trump’s “big lie” about election fraud drove Republican fundraising appeals after Biden won the election.
  • Chris Stirewalt, a former political editor for Fox News, testified that he was proud of his team’s decision to call Arizona for Biden before other networks did on election night. He also said his team had taken “pains” to caution viewers about a “red mirage” — showing a Republican ahead on election night — noting that the results were likely to change after early votes were counted. “The Trump campaign and the president had made it clear that they were going to try to exploit this anomaly … When you put together a jigsaw puzzle, it doesn’t matter which piece you put in first. It ends up with the same image,” Stirewalt testified.
  • The committee had to scramble Monday morning after Stepien canceled his planned in-person testimony because his wife had gone into labor, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), the committee chairman, said. Others who testified in person Monday were Benjamin Ginsberg, a Republican election lawyer; former U.S. attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak; and Al Schmidt, a former Philadelphia city commissioner…..

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“Are you out of your effin’ mind? I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: Orderly transition.”

— Former White House lawyer Eric Herschman, in videotaped testimony, describing what he told lawyer John Eastman on the day after January 6, 2021…..

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  1. The House Committee is doing a amsterful job of showing that except for a few ass kissers?

    Just about EVERBODY around PRESIDENT Trump KNEW and ACCEPTED thatr he had lost the election….

    The smart ones just shut down…

    The crazy one’s keep pitching shit to Trump….

    Theu includied lawyer’s around the coiuntry that just made judges, even in REd states pissed….

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