Chapter 1.3 - Trump's Pre-Election Efforts to Delegitimize the Election Process (The January 6th Report)
Government Unfiltered
Dan Williams
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🗓️ 10 January 2023
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This episode is a reading of Chapter 1.3 - Trump's Pre-Election Efforts to Delegitimize the Election Process.
The Select Committee explains that it found dozens of instances in which President Trump claimed that mail-in voting would produce a "rigged" election. This short section is a precursor to President Trump's launch of the Big Lie, explained in the following section, and provides context for future efforts to delegitimize the election.
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| 0:00.0 | This is January 6th, Attack on the United States Capitol. |
| 0:14.2 | This podcast is a reading of the document released on December 22, |
| 0:19.9 | Chapter 1, The Big Lie. 1.3. |
| 0:29.4 | Trump's pre-election efforts to delegitimize the election process. |
| 0:34.7 | President Trump also paved the way for his false election night declaration of victory by |
| 0:39.1 | blanketing voters with the blizzard of lies and statements delegitimizing mail-in voting in the middle of a deadly |
| 0:44.9 | pandemic and consistently questioning the security of ballots. |
| 0:50.0 | President Trump used the President's bully pulpit, including his heavily trafficked Twitter |
| 0:54.2 | feed to tell one lie after another. |
| 0:58.1 | The select committee found dozens of instances in which President Trump claimed that mail-in voting would produce a rigged election. |
| 1:05.0 | Trump repeatedly denounced mail-in voting on Twitter during interviews and even during |
| 1:10.4 | the presidential debate. Here is a small sample of President Trump's attempts to delegitimize mail-in balloting. |
| 1:18.0 | On April 7, 2020, President Trump claimed, |
| 1:22.0 | male ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country, |
| 1:25.0 | because they're cheaters. |
| 1:26.6 | They go and collect them. |
| 1:28.2 | They're fraudulent in many cases. |
| 1:30.4 | These mailed ballots come in. |
| 1:32.1 | The mailed ballots are corrupt in my opinion, and they collect them, and they get people to go in and sign them, and then they, they're forgeries in many cases. It's a horrible thing. |
| 1:42.0 | The following day, 8, President Trump |
| 1:45.6 | tweeted. Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to statewide |
| 1:49.8 | mail-in voting. Democrats are clamoring for it. Tremendous potential for |
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