Top Trump advisers did not believe election fraud claims had merit, new Jan. 6 testimony shows
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson , the committee’s chairman, called the day’s violence the “culmination of an attempted coup.” Rep. Liz Cheney , vice-chair of the committee, said Trump oversaw a “sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election” even as his top aides told him there was no evidence to support his fantastical claims.
Cheney enumerated the strategies Trump employed to thwart the will of voters — filing legal motions, which were thrown out; applying pressure to top Justice Department officials and Vice President Mike Pence, which they resisted; and summoning his supporters to march on the Capitol. So alarmed was White House counsel Pat Cipollone by these tactics that he threatened to resign, Cheney said.
Jason Miller, a senior campaign spokesman, said the campaign’s data specialist told Trump in no uncertain terms that internal figures showed “he was going to lose.” The same message was relayed to the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, according to Alex Cannon, a campaign lawyer charged with examining possible fraud.
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