He told supporters at the White House, including Barr, that a big vote dump had occurred in Detroit. “They were going to go in a different direction,” related Kushner, who admitted telling Trump that “it was not the approach I would take if I were you.”įollowing Joe Biden’s election win, Trump publicly declared himself the victor, and the Big Lie began. Meanwhile, Trump’s former campaign manager Bill Stepien, said his boss disagreed with those who suggested it was too early to call the election. One lawmaker described Giuliani as “apparently inebriated.”Īt the same time, Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, testified that the former President waited in the White House in a room with advisers while awaiting election results. Matt Morgan, the Trump campaign’s general counsel, provided a videotaped deposition in which he noted that “the law firms were not comfortable making arguments that (lawyer and advisor) Rudy Giuliani was making publicly” about election fraud. Attorney William Barr said in a taped deposition played by Committee members in June. The former President declared the election as fraudulent “right out of the box on election night before there was any potential of looking at the evidence,” former U.S. “We will hold accountable anyone who was criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate, lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next,” Garland told NBC Nightly News’ Lester Holt.