This is January 6th, Attack on the United States Capitol.

This podcast is a reading of the document released on December 22,

Chapter 1, The Big Lie.

1.4.

President Trump's launch of the Big Lie, consistent with the pre-election narrative planted by

President Trump, within hours of polls closing, President Trump began pushing the

claim that late reported vote tallies were illegitimate.

Even though he had been reminded by his campaign manager that very day that a large number of

mail-in ballots would not be counted for several hours or days, President Trump claimed that Democrats were going to find ballots at 4 o'clock in the morning

and add them to the list.

He also suggested that Democrats were continuing to vote after the polls had closed.

Indeed, this is exactly what Steve Bannon described when he said President Trump would take advantage of the Democrats' natural disadvantage on election night.

In the ensuing days and weeks, President Trump often referred to dumps of votes that were

injected into the counting process.

His supporters latched to these false claims.

There were no dumps of votes, just tallies of absentee ballots as they were reported by

jurisdictions throughout the country in a fully transparent process.

These batches of ballots in the country in a fully transparent process.

These batches of ballots included votes for both Trump and Biden.

The late reported votes favored the former Vice President, just as President Trump's

campaign advisors said they would, particularly

and primarily Democratic cities.

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