Jan. 6 probe: Trump sets rally after ‘unhinged’ WH meeting
2 years, 5 months ago

Jan. 6 probe: Trump sets rally after ‘unhinged’ WH meeting

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states’ voting machines and then, in a last ditch effort to salvage his presidency, summoned supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol for what turned into the deadly riot, the House Jan. 6 committee revealed Tuesday. “I mean, people died that day.” Tuesday’s session focused in part on December 2020, a time when many Republicans were moving on from the November election Trump lost to Joe Biden. The panel featured new video testimony from Pat Cipollone, Trump’s White House counsel at the time, recalling the explosive meeting when Trump’s outside legal team brought a draft executive order to seize the states’ voting machines — a “terrible idea,” Cipollone said. Committee member Murphy said, “This was not a spontaneous call to action, but rather was a deliberate strategy.” Tuesday’s was the only hearing this week, as new details emerge.

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