The Aftermath S2E1 - The Grossly Impudent Lie
Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath
Lawfare
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🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
It’s been three years since the insurrection of January 6th. There have been congressional investigations, prosecutions, and legal reforms, and it’s looking like 2024 will be the year that Donald Trump and his inner circle finally confront the criminal justice system. But is that enough to respond to an existential threat to our democracy?
It all started with a lie: that Trump had won the 2020 election. So we begin there, with a look at the man who—other than Trump—mattered more to the Big Lie than anybody else: Rudy Giuliani.
Guests include: Kyle Cheney, Congressional Reporter at POLITICO & Aaron Blake, Political Reporter and author of the upcoming Campaign Moment newsletter at the Washington Post.
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| 0:11.9 | to catch upon the latest episodes without the ads. dot We have already seen how President Trump falsely declared victory on November 3rd, 2020. |
| 0:28.0 | How he and his team launched a fraudulent media campaign that the election was stolen from him. |
| 0:37.0 | It's June 2022. |
| 0:40.0 | The January 6th committee has resumed hearings after almost a year of being dark. |
| 0:45.0 | It had been investigating the Capitol attack behind the scenes. |
| 0:50.0 | Now, in a series of eight hearings over the course of the summer, it will share its findings |
| 0:56.2 | with the world. |
| 0:57.2 | We've seen how President Trump and his allies corruptly attempted to pressure Vice President Pence to refuse to count lawful |
| 1:05.2 | electoral votes and obstruct Congress's proceedings on January 6th and how he |
| 1:11.7 | provoked a violent mob to pursue the vice president and others in our |
| 1:16.7 | capital. At the center of the January 6th attack Cheney argues is a lie that Trump had won the 2020 election. |
| 1:26.0 | Stop the seal. |
| 1:29.0 | And if we're wrong, we will be made fools of us. we're right a lot of them will go to jail let's |
| 1:36.7 | have trial by combat you will also hear testimony that president Trump rejected the advice of his campaign |
| 1:45.0 | experts on election night and instead followed the course recommended by an apparently |
| 1:50.9 | inebriated Rudy Giuliani to just claim he won and insist that the vote |
| 1:57.0 | counting stop to falsely claim everything was fraudulent. |
| 2:01.8 | He falsely told the American people that the election was not everything was |
| 2:04.7 | not fraudulent. |
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