1/6 panel: Told repeatedly he lost, Trump refused to go

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was told the same thing over and over, by his campaign team, the data crunchers, and a steady stream of lawyers, investigators and inner-circle allies: There was no voting fraud that could have tipped the 2020 presidential election.

But in the eight weeks after losing to Joe Biden, the defeated Trump publicly, privately and relentlessly pushed his false claims of a rigged 2020 election and intensified an extraordinary scheme to overturn Biden’s victory. When all else failed in his effort to stay in power, Trump beckoned thousands of his supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, where extremists groups led the deadly Capitol siege.

The scale and virulence of that scheme began to take shape at the opening House hearing by the committee investigating 1/6. The prime-time hearing was watched by an estimated 20 million people on the TV networks, almost double the number who tuned in to the opening of Trump’s two impeachment trials.

When the panel resumes Monday, it will delve into its findings that Trump and his advisers knew early on that he had in fact lost the election but engaged in a “massive effort” to spread false information to convince the public otherwise.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-riot-hearing-67ec5f32b1dd050a24c3312570fa6c67

[Walleye]

1. The point is Trump is still spreading lies and fundraising on it. He's got to be stopped

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I'm still in wonder that Trump walked out of the WH onto Marine One

and onto Air Force One and flew to Mar-A-Lago for the last time. I honestly thought that he'd lock himself into either the Oval Office or the home quarters, perhaps even a toilet.

[Irish_Dem]

3. I think it was made clear he would be forcibly removed if he did not vacate the premises.

Edit to add: Trump is a supreme coward, he lets others take the hits for him.
So he personally would not let himself be manhandled and forced to leave.