former president of the united states donald trump (2017-2021) lifted hundreds of millions of dollars from his supporters for his bogus theories about voter fraud.Democratic lawmaker Zoe Lofgren said on Monday.
Lofgren, who was part of the committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill by a gang of Trump supporters, argued that Trump used his lies about fraud in the 2020 presidential election (including the current US president Democrat). Joe Biden) “scam” your followers, said that the donations to be made for the cases that he objected to the election result and that were rejected by the courts would serve to pay. “The big lie was also a big deception,” Lofgren said.
Second hearing of the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, disinformation campaign It was created by Trump and his allies to support fraudulent lies in the 2020 election. “Today we’re going to tell you the story of how Trump lost the election, he knew he lost the election, and as a result of that loss he decided to launch an attack on our democracy,” summed up the committee chairman, Democrat Bennie Thompson.
Before the trial begins, the committee’s star witnesses, Bill Stepien, Trump’s ex-campaign manager, will not testify because his wife has given birth and will have to get a briefing to be read by the public defender instead. Stepien ran Trump’s re-election campaign from July 2020 to the November election and had previously been “number two” in that political operation.
The second witness is Chris Stirewalt, director of digital strategy for the Politics division of the conservative network Fox News. Stirwalt was fired after Fox announced that Biden had won the state of Arizona, which was later discussed by Trump.
Other witnesses are Benjamin Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election attorney, and BJay Pak, the former attorney general for the Northern District of Georgia, who resigned after Trump. pressure government officials to nullify Biden’s victory in this state.
The last person to testify before the committee will be Republican Al Schmidt on the Philadelphia city commission, who defended the city’s vote count against attacks by the former president.
The committee is made up of a majority of Democratic congressmen, but there are two Republican members – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – who are at odds with Trump.
In the attack on the Capitol, 5 people died, including a police officer hours later he suffered a heart attack and about 140 agents were attacked. Also, four cops committed suicide later.