The Jan. 6 committee exposed Trump's lies -- and indicted the GOP in the process.

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Trump was so adamant not to acquire the “loser” title he furiously sought confirmation of specious allegations. Finding none, he was willing to burn down the system to keep power. This is not delusion; it’s intentional destruction of American democracy.

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Opinion | The Jan. 6 committee exposed Trump’s lies — and indicted the GOP in the process
Not even Trump's closest advisers believed his claims.
12:31 PM · Jun 13, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/13/second-hearing-jan-6-exposes-trump-lies-indictment-of-gop/

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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection utterly destroyed on Monday the “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen. In doing so, the committee demonstrated that the GOP’s willingness to lie and undermine our democracy, which continues to this day, has been as reprehensible as former president Donald Trump’s.

Monday’s session, which followed the committee’s first dramatic hearing last Thursday, drilled down into the first prong of Trump’s strategy to remain in power: to undermine the election by falsely claiming it was stolen. The committee not only showed testimony from former Trump aides that none of the wild claims amounted to any proof of fraud, but also Trump’s own remarks far before the November election that he was going to declare fraud if he lost. The clips support the accusation that Trump set out to use fraud as an excuse, regardless of the facts.

Before the Monday session began, the committee announced that Trump’s former campaign manager Bill Stepien would not appear as scheduled due to his wife going into labor. That might have been fortuitous, given the difficulty of questioning a hostile witness. (Stepien, who is advising the campaign of Rep. Liz Cheney’s primary opponent and other MAGA candidates, might have sought to throw sand in the gears of the proceedings.)

Nevertheless, Stepien’s pre-recorded video testimony, as well as testimony from former attorney general William P. Barr and former Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt, demolished the notion that there was ever evidence of fraud that would reverse the election’s outcome. Barr told Trump this. So do Stepien. So did acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen. When Justice Department officials debunked baseless claims one by one about fraud in Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania, Trump threw out even more ludicrous claims. The primary officials pushing the “big lie” were crazed confidants such as Rudy Giuliani and Peter Navarro. (Navarro at one point accused Trump’s then-campaign lawyer of being in league with the “deep state.”)

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[Walleye]

1. "Trump will be gone but your dishonor will remain"

Mr. Navarro, is the deep state in the room with us right now?