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“What I’m just asking you to do is to say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen,” Trump said, the No. Trump’s own Department of Justice was hounded by a president calling at all hours during the Christmas holiday season for investigations into his far-flung theories of fraud, former officials testified. “Find 11,780 votes,” Trump demanded of Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state in Georgia, a state Trump narrowly lost.Īrizona’s Republican House speaker testified about a call from Trump in which the president made an unprecedented proposal to reject the slate of electors for Biden, who had won the state. When one judge after another, many of whom Trump had appointed, rejected or declined to take up the lawsuits, Trump used the power of his presidency to pressure officials to act. He filed dozens of legal challenges in closely contested states, hoping to flip his defeat to victory. Trump leaned on officials from the highest levels of government to find more votes or reject those electors already affirmed. The “backbone of democracy,” as the committee chairman, Rep. As happened during the anti-communist McCarthy era, the testimony has provoked counter-reaction - a sense of the civic decency coming from civil servants, including many fellow Republicans, who did their jobs, despite grave personal risk, to ensure that the 2020 election was legitimate. Like the Watergate hearings 50 years ago, the 1/6 committee has depicted a president “detached from reality,” as Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, testified. When that didn’t work, Trump summoned a mob to the Capitol.ĭespite the unprecedented Capitol attack, the hearings carry echoes from U.S. Trump tried to use the powers of the presidency to stop Democrat Joe Biden from being certified the winner.

The public hearings this month are showing in vivid and clear detail just how close the United States came to a constitutional crisis when President Donald Trump refused to admit his election defeat. 6 committee launched under deep political skepticism: What more could be said about the deadly insurrection at the Capitol in 2021 that played out for all the world to see?