The president’s eldest daughter was in one of the first videos played by committee members during their opening remarks at Thursday’s hearing. During remarks by Liz Cheney, the lawmaker pointed to White House aide Trump, explaining how she accepted Attorney General Bill Barr’s claim that the election was fair and free of fraud. “I respect AG Barr and I accepted what he said,” Ms Trump told the committee in a recorded statement. Her words come in direct conflict with the former president’s numerous lies about the 2020 election, which he still refuses to admit he lost, and proves that Trump’s inner circle warned him that he was spreading misinformation long before January 6. . The video was followed by several other videos of Trump individuals making similar statements. Among them was Jason Miller, a successor to Trump’s campaign, who explained how the campaign data group knew, even as the election results were rolling, that the president was going to lose and lose badly. He also revealed how members of the GOP parliamentary group, who strongly resisted any attempt to investigate the attack for more than a year, contacted the White House in the days following the uprising, hoping to win the favor of each possibility. criminal liability to which they were exposed during the attack or in the previous weeks. The committee hearing on Thursday is one of two primetime hearings the committee plans to hold next month.
