Trump’s “Big Lie” Was A “Big Rip-Off” and Other Revelations from the January 6th Hearings

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In blunt testimony to the January 6th committee, former Attorney General William Barr testified he thought Donald Trump was “detached from reality” as the former President continued to tout the lie of a stolen election, a lie that had been repeatedly been debunked by Trump’s own advisors and campaign. Interweaving recorded interviews with live witnesses, on day two of the hearings, the committee focused on Trump’s knowledge that there was no credible basis for claims the 2020 election had been stolen and heard that there were two camps among Trump’s advisors: Team Normal and Team Rudy, which urged Trump to claim victory and pushed lies about voting fraud. We’ll talk to Select Committee member Representative Zoe Lofgren and a panel of experts about other revelations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.3	Coming up on forum, California's representative, Zo Lofgren, led yesterday's hearing of the House Committee investigating January 6th,
0:56.9	focusing on how ex-president Trump knew he'd lost the 2020 election, was told so by multiple people in his orbit,
1:03.4	and still told the American public he'd won.
1:05.9	Lofgren also showed how Trump and his allies used the lie of a stolen election to make money,
1:10.5	hundreds of millions of dollars, from small donors for an election defense fund that didn't really exist.
1:16.8	So not only was there the big lie, there was the big rip-off.
1:22.0	Lofgren joins us as we recap the hearings and get your reactions.
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