January 6 Committee Releases Final Report on Efforts to Cancel 2020 Election

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The bulk of the report is made up of eight chapters meant to tell a narrative story of Mr. Trump’s efforts to cling to power.

The Big Lie, the first chapter, recounts how Mr. Trump engaged in a premeditated plan starting on election night to falsely claim he had won and to claim that the outstanding votes were fraudulent and that he had continued to make these claims for months even after being informed. repeatedly by his assists that he was wrong and lost. Attorney General William P. Barr told the committee that Mr. Trump had never shown any interest in the real facts.

Donald Trump was not a passive consumer of these lies, according to the report. He actively propagated them. Time and time again, President Trump has been told that his allegations of voter fraud were not true. He chose to broadcast them anyway. It did so even after being legally tested and rejected in dozens of lawsuits.

Chapter 2, titled I just want to find 11,780 votes, recounts how Mr Trump sought to pressure Georgian officials to find the votes he needed to rock the state, which had been won by Mr Biden , in its column. It goes on to explore Mr. Trump’s largely unsuccessful lobbying campaign on a wide range of officials in other swing states he had lost to find ways to reverse the outcome.

At one point, according to the report, the White House switchboard left a message for the chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to call Mr. Trump, who was pushing for investigations into voting machines there. (The President decided not to return the phone call from the President of the United States.)

The following chapters cover the genesis of the so-called bogus voter scheme, in which Mr. Trump and his allies sought to promote alternative lists of voters from states he had lost in an attempt to block or delay the certification of Mr. Bidens’ victory, and Mr. Trump is campaigning to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to use his role overseeing Congress’s certification process as Senate President to carry out the fake electoral plan.

Mr Trump was largely dependent on Mr Eastman to provide legal justification for Mr Pence who was in effect unilaterally deciding whether or not to accept the election result, but the report shows he also looked to other assistants to help him plead his case. He says either Mr. Trump or Mr. Meadows have assigned John McEntee, the director of the presidential personnel office, to look into the matter further. Although McEntee was a close adviser to President Trump, he was not a lawyer and had no relevant experience.

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