Trump Listened To A Drunk Rudy Giuliani Before Declaring Victory On Election Night

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump listened to drunken advice from Rudy Giuliani instead of his professional campaign advisers, a former Trump campaign adviser testified before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Giuliani was “definitely intoxicated” on election night when he told campaign aides that Trump should falsely declare victory, former Trump adviser Jason Miller said in a video deposition the committee revealed on Monday. The committee also played video clips of its prior interviews with Giuliani and Trump campaign staffer Bill Stepien, who also testified that Giuliani said on Election Day that Trump should declare victory even though ballots were still being counted. Summarizing the testimony, Rep. Liz Cheney said, “President Trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night and instead followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani to just claim he won and insist that the vote counting stop to falsely claim everything was fraudulent.” Giuliani denied through an attorney on Monday that he was drunk on election night, according to CNN. The committee then played a clip of Trump that night calling the election a “fraud” and saying, “Frankly, we did win this election.” After the hearing, HuffPost asked committee member Jamie Raskin why it matters that Giuliani was inebriated on election night.