He said he resigned from Trump’s administration in December 2020 because of the false claims. “It was doing a great disservice to the country,” said Barr, a lifelong Republican who also served as attorney general for President George H.W. Bush. Trump’s repeated assertions that voting machines were rigged were “idiotic claims,” Barr told the committee, adding that in the last 19 months he has seen zero evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. The premise that that’s somehow a mule is indefensible.”īarr said he told Trump that “the clams of fraud were bullshit,” in video testimony played for the committee. If you take 2 million cell phones and figure out where they are physically in a big city like Atlanta or whatever, just by definition you’re going to find many hundreds of them have passed by and spent time in the vicinity of these boxes. The cellphone data is singularly unimpressive.
“In a nutshell … I was unimpressed with it …. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)įormer Attorney General Bill Barr dismissed Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud and took a dig at Dinesh D’Souza film “2000 Mules.”Īsked to elaborate on the film, Barr said: Bill Barr Reviews ‘2000 Mules': ‘Unimpressive, Indefensible’ Former Attorney General William Barr is seen on a screen during a hearing held by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. From now on I only want to hear two words come out of your mouth - orderly transition’,” Herschmann told the committee. “I said to him, ‘You must be out of your f-ing mind. Herschmann recalled a conversation he had with Trump adviser John Eastman, a California attorney who was pushing Trump’s stolen votes narrative. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Įric Herschmann, former Trump attorney and senior adviser, joined the ranks of advisers who told the committee that they urged Trump to stop making false claims of stolen votes.
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Use of the funds is still under investigation.Įveryone Told Trump to Stand Down Trump attorney and senior adviser Eric Herschmann arriving for the Senate impeachment trial in 2020. Wick said the money then was transferred to several other accounts, including the Trump Hotel Collection. Wick said Trump instead put the money into a newly created “Save America” political action committee. The problem, Wick said, is that investigators found that this fund did not exist. The committee detailed bombshell allegations of Trump fleecing his own supporters from an account of $250 million in donations that he said would go to fight election fraud, but then kept for other purposes.Īmanda Wick, senior investigating counsel for the House select committee, displayed numerous Trump e-mails and other literature asking his supporters to donate to the Election Defense Fund. Committee Says Trump Fleeced Donors Out of $250 Million Donald Trump at a campaign event.
Here are the key moments from Monday’s testimony, the second day of hearings that are scheduled to resume Wednesday. 6 Hearing: ‘Red Mirage’ Drove Trump to Believe He Won – Even Though It Was Expected
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