January 6 Hearings: What the House Select Committee Revealed on the Second Day of Capitol Riot Trial

The second day of the January 6 hearings has revealed a series of taped testimony from former U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign advisers and lawyers.

NPR reported that the House select committee used lots of footage from its taped interviews with professionals from Trump's 2020 campaign, including Trump campaign manager, Bill Stepien; senior adviser, Jason Miller; and multiple lawyers

The group of campaign professionals all claimed they tried to tell Trump the truth, which was that the outlook was bleak, he should not declare victory on election night, and that he was going to lose.

They also noted that Trump's election fraud claims were "bogus and silly," "idiotic," "stupid," "complete nonsense," and "crazy stuff," as described by the former Attorney General Bill Barr.

Barr earlier said during the Monday viewing audience that the fraud claims were "doing a great great disservice to the country."

Former Acting Attorney General Richard Donoghue said that when they debunked the president's claims, Trump would not fight them on it and would just "move on to another."

The former president started listening to three figures, including Rudy Giuliani, who Stepien and Miller described as "intoxicated" on election night. It also included lawyer Sidney Powell and former trade adviser Peter Navarro.

Second Day of January 6 Hearings

Reuters noted that Stepien told the House select committee that he and other aides viewed themselves as "Team Normal" as they tried to steer Trump away from fraud claims being "peddled" by Giuliani and other lawyers.

Stepien said in a videotaped testimony that he did not think what was happening was honest or professional.

The committee also showed what witnesses said were a series of "outlandish fraud allegations" that prove to be false.

The outlandish allegations included a "suspicious black suitcase," which contained fake ballots that turned out to be a local election lock box in Georgia. It also includes claims of computer chips being swapped into voting machines that automatically awarded Trump votes to Biden, as well as rampant fraudulent voting.

Amanda Wick, an investigator with the select committee, said that a number of Trump fundraising appeals based on voter fraud claims raised $250 million. Nearly $100 million was raised in the first week after the election.

Legal experts noted that the said fundraising activities could have been fraudulent.

Meanwhile, Trump repeatedly denied anything illegal in relation to the January 6 events.

Donald Trump on Capitol Riot Hearing

Donald Trump has released a 12-page rebuttal to testimony and evidence presented by House select committee probing the January 6 insurrection.

He accused Democrats of seeking to distract from a series of domestic issues facing the country, according to The Hill report. Trump said that 17 months after the events of the Capitol riot, Democrats are "unable to offer solutions."

The former president added that the Democrats are hoping that the January 6 hearings "will somehow alter their failing prospects."

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Written by: Mary Webber

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