January 6 Committee: Trump’s false claims resulted in $250 million in donations to nonexistent “Official Election Defense Fund”

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

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The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol revealed during a public hearing that former President Trump’s relentless post-election fundraising raised roughly $250 million in donations to the “Official Election Defense Fund” that urged supporters to “step up to protect the integrity of the election.” The committee says the biggest beneficiary of those post-election donations went to the former President’s political action committee, Save America, not “election integrity.” Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin is a member of the committee and tells Anderson Cooper if he thinks what Trump and his team did was legal. Plus, CNN Chief National Correspondent and anchor of Inside Politics John King joins AC360 to break down the primaries in South Carolina and three other states. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening until late today.
0:02.5	The big news was that the House January 6th Committee is postponing hearing schedule
0:06.1	for tomorrow.
0:07.1	Then came this from committee vice chair Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the panel.
0:11.7	A preview of Thursday's installment, which Congresswoman Cheney said would examine what
0:15.5	she called the former president's relentless effort to pressure the former vice president
0:19.9	to refuse to count lawful electoral votes.
0:22.2	As we were among the first to report, this is part of the plan put forward by Trump
0:26.4	attorney John Eastman who was working with the campaign.
0:29.7	In her video today, Congresswoman Cheney played a longer version of testimony.
0:33.9	We first heard some of yesterday from Eric Hirschman, one of the White House's lawyers
0:38.5	that Eastman spoke with.
0:41.9	It was the day after.
0:46.7	Eastman, I don't remember why he called me or he texted me or called me, wanted to
0:52.7	talk with me and he said he couldn't reach others.
0:57.7	And he started to ask me about something dealing with Georgia and preserving something
1:03.8	potentially for appeal.
1:08.3	And I said to him, are you out of your F in mind?
1:15.3	I said, I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth for now on.
1:22.3	Orderly transition.
1:23.3	I don't want to hear any other F in words coming out of your mouth no matter what.
1:30.1	Other than orderly transition, repeat those words to me.
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