The commission of inquiry at the Congress dissected, on Monday, the campaign of lies initiated by the president beaten on the supposed fraud during the presidential election of November 2020.
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Devastating disassembly began. Monday, June 13, the commission of inquiry on the assault of January 6, 2021 against the Capitol offered a astounding dive behind the scenes of the White House during the three months preceding this fatal day for American democracy. From Donald Trump’s defeat against Joe Biden during the presidential election of November 3, 2020 until the attack initiated by the supporters of the outgoing president, a campaign of lies on imaginary fraud was launched. And this while the entourage closest to Donald Trump, including family members, questioned the strategy pursued.
This second day of public hearing of the Commission, made up of nine elected officials from the House of Representatives, confirmed that the inaugural session, on June 9, had only been an appetizer. Conducted by two Democrats, President Bennie Thompson (Mississippi) and especially Zoe Lofgren (California), this session was built around very effective video sequences giving the floor to political and legal advisers of Donald Trump, and several witnesses present before the Commission.
The relentless course followed a chronological framework, from the first preventive denunciations for fraud by Donald Trump, several months before the ballot. But the real starting point is the evening of November 3, 2020, at the White House. An evening quickly transformed into a crisis meeting, due to the announcement by the Fox News channel of the victory of Joe Biden in Arizona, a decisive state, traditionally republican. She provoked “anger and disappointment”, according to Jason Miller, advisor to the president.
Bill Stepien, Donald Trump’s campaign director, could not appear before the committee on Monday because his wife gave birth at the same time. However, extracts from his testimony, collected in February, were rich in lessons. Bill Stepien described a presidential entourage divided into two teams there, belonging to him to the “normal team”, which did not want to rush while waiting for the end of the count. “[Trump] thought I was wrong. He told me,” recalls Bill Stepien. “The results were still counted,” said Ivanka Trump, uncomfortable, in his testimony. Her husband, Jared Kushner, special advisor to the president, remembers having slipped to the latter: “This is not the approach I would take if I were you.” But Trump replied: “I have confidence In Rudy. “
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