In the assault on the Capitol, five people died, including an officer following suffering a heart attack hours following the assault, and regarding 140 officers were attacked. In addition, four policemen subsequently committed suicide.
The former president of the United States, Donald Trump, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from his supporters with their false theories of electoral fraud, said this Monday the Democratic legislator Zoe Lofgren.
Lofgren, who is part of the committee investigating the assault on Capitol Hill, argued that Trump used his lies regarding fraud to “cheat” to his followers.
According to Lofgren, Trump told them that their donations would be used to pay for the litigation with which he disputed the electoral result.
“The big lie was also a big scam”, Lofgren stressed.
The second hearing of the committee investigating the assault on the Capitol is focused on the disinformation campaign created by Trump and his allies to promote lies regarding fraud in the 2020 election.
“Today we will tell you the story of how Trump lost the election, he knew he had lost the election, and as a result of that loss, decided to launch an attack once morest our democracy,” summed up the chairman of the committee, Democrat Bennie Thompson.
Before the hearing began, the committee announced that its star witness, the former campaign manager for Trump Bill Stepien, You will not be able to testify.
This is because his wife went into labor and instead the public will have to settle for a brief that will be read by their lawyer.
Stepien ran Trump’s re-election campaign from July 2020 through the November election of the same year and, previously, He had been “number two” in that political operation.
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The second witness is Chris Stirewalt, who was director of the digital strategy of the Politics section of the conservative network Fox News.
Stirewalt was fired following Fox announced that Biden had won the state of Arizona, something that was subsequently disputed by Trump.
The 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 following Trump pressured state officials to nullify Biden’s victory in that state.
The last to testify in front of the committee will be Al Schmidt, a Republican on the Philadelphia City Commission who defended the city’s vote count once morest the former president’s attacks.
The committee is made up of a majority of Democratic congressmen, although there are two Republican members -Liz Cheney y Adam Kinzinger- who are at odds with Trump.
