Former US President Donald Trump ignored top advisers, including his daughter, who recommended that he stop claiming Democrats had stolen the 2020 election, Congress investigating the attack revealed Monday. to the Capitol in 2021
“Even before the election, Trump decided that, regardless of the facts and the truth, if he lost the election, he would say it was rigged,” said Zoe Lofgren, a Democratic member of the group that seeks to clarify the responsibility of the Republican billionaire in the attack on the United States Congress. United by their supporters on January 6, 2021.
The 76-year-old ex-president reacted in the evening, calling the investigation a “mockery of justice” in a 12-page letter in which he also reiterated his false allegations of fraud in the 2020 election.
The Democrat-led panel “seeks to distract the American people,” he wrote. “The truth is, Americans showed up in large numbers in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021, to hold its elected officials accountable for clear signs of criminal activity throughout the election,” he added, despite the arsenal of evidence pointing to the opposite.
In the second of a series of hearings after nearly a year of investigation, the commission showed video testimonies about the former president’s maneuvers between presidential election night and the assault on the Capitol.
