FINAL REPORT of the Select Commitee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

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The table showing Trump knowingly lied about election fraud is pretty telling:

Then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen (12/15/20):

“And so he said, ‘Well, what about this? I saw it on the videotape, somebody delivering a suitcase of ballots.’ And we said, ‘It wasn’t a suitcase. It was a bin. That’s what they use when they’re counting ballots. It’s benign.’” 105

President Trump one week later (12/22/20):

“There is even security camera footage from Georgia that shows officials telling poll watchers to leave the room before pulling suitcases of ballots out from under the tables and continuing to count for hours.” 106

Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue (12/27 & 12/31/20):

“I told the President myself that several times, in several conversations, that these allegations about ballots being smuggled in in a suitcase and run through the machine several times, it was not true, that we looked at it, we looked at the video, we interviewed the witnesses, that it was not true . . . . I believe it was in the phone call on December 27th. It was also in a meeting in the Oval Office on December 31st.” 107

President Trump later that week (1/2/21):

“[S]he stuffed the machine. She stuffed the ballot. Each ballot went three times, they were showing: Here’s ballot number one. Here it is a second time, third time, next ballot.”  108

GA Sec. State Brad Raffensperger (1/2/21):

“You’re talking about the State Farm video. And I think it’s extremely unfortunate that Rudy Giuliani or his people, they sliced and diced that video and took it out of context.” . . . “[W]e did an audit of that and we proved conclusively that they were not scanned three times. . . . Yes, Mr. President, we’ll send you the link from WSB.”

[Trump]: “I don’t care about a link. I don’t need it.” 109

President Trump one day later (1/3/21):

“I spoke to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and voter fraud in Georgia. He was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the ‘ballots under table’ scam, ballot destruction, out of state ‘voters’, dead voters, and more. He has no clue!” 110

Attorney General Barr (12/1/20):

“Then he raised the ‘big vote dump,’ as he called it, in Detroit. And, you know, he said, people saw boxes coming into the counting station at all hours of the morning and so forth. . . . I said, ‘Mr. President, there are 630 precincts in Detroit, and unlike elsewhere in the State, they centralize the counting process, so they’re not counted in each precinct, they’re moved to counting stations, and so the normal process would involve boxes coming in at all different hours.’

And I said, ‘Did anyone point out to you—did all the people complaining about it point out to you, you actually did better in Detroit than you did last time? I mean, there’s no indication of fraud in Detroit.’” 111

President Trump one day later (12/2/20):

“I’ll tell you what’s wrong, voter fraud. Here’s an example. This is Michigan. At 6:31 in the morning, a vote dump of 149,772 votes came in unexpectedly. We were winning by a lot. That batch was received in horror. . . .

In Detroit everybody saw the tremendous conflict. . . there were more votes than there were voters.” 112

Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue (12/27/20):

“The President then continued, there are ‘more votes than voters. . .’. But I was aware of that allegation, and I said, you know, that was just a matter of them ‘comparing the 2020 votes cast to 2016 registration numbers.’ That is ‘not a valid complaint.’” 113

President Trump ten days later (1/6/21):

“More votes than they had voters. And many other States also.” 114

Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue (1/3/21):

“[W]e would say to him, you know, ‘We checked that out, and there’s nothing to it. . . . And we would cite to certain allegations. And so—like such as Pennsylvania, right. ‘No, there were not 250,000 more votes reported than were actually cast. That’s not true.’ So we would say things like that.” 115

President Trump three days later (1/6/21):

“In Pennsylvania, you had 205,000 more votes than you had voters. And the number is actually much greater than that now. That was as of a week ago. And this is a mathematical impossibility unless you want to say it’s a total fraud.” 116

GA Sec. State Brad Raffensperger (1/2/21):

[Trump]: “[I]t’s 4,502 who voted, but they weren’t on the voter registration roll, which they had to be. You had 18,325 vacant address voters. The address was vacant, and they’re not allowed to be counted. That’s 18,325.” . . .

[Raffensperger]: “Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong.” 117

President Trump two days later (1/4/21):

“4,502 illegal ballots were cast by individuals who do not appear on the state’s voter rolls. Well, that’s sort of strange. 18,325 illegal ballots were cast by individuals who registered to vote using an address listed as vacant according to the postal service.” 118

GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger (1/2/21):

[Trump]: “So dead people voted, and I think the number is close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number, and a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.” . . .

[Raffensperger]: “The actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. So that’s wrong.” 119

President Trump four days later (1/6/21):

“[T]he number of fraudulent ballots that we’ve identified across the state is staggering. Over 10,300 ballots in Georgia were cast by individuals whose names and dates of birth match Georgia residents who died in 2020 and prior to the election.” 120

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GA Sec. State General Counsel Ryan Germany (1/2/21):

[Trump]: “You had out-of-state voters. They voted in Georgia, but they were from out of state, of 4,925.” . . .

[Germany]: “Every one we’ve been through are people that lived in Georgia, moved to a different state, but then moved back to Georgia legitimately.” . . . “They moved back in years ago. This was not like something just before the election. So there’s something about that data that, it’s just not accurate.” 121

President Trump four days later (1/6/21):

“And at least 15,000 ballots were cast by individuals who moved out of the state prior to November 3rd election. They say they moved right back.” 122

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (n.d.):

“[T]he one specific I remember referencing was I don’t agree with the Dominion track.” . . .

“I specifically referenced waving him off of the Dominion theory earlier in my testimony.” . . .

[Q] “Are you saying you think he still continued to tweet that after you waved him off of it?”

[A] “Yeah. . .” 123

President Trump:

Between mid-November and January 5, 2021, President Trump tweeted or retweeted conspiracy theories about Dominion nearly three dozen times.124

Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Jason Miller:

“. . .the international allegations for Dominion were not valid.”

[Q] “Okay. Did anybody communicate that to the President?”

[A]: “I know that that was—I know that was communicated. I know I communicated it” 125

President Trump:

“You have Dominion, which is very, very suspect to start off with. Nobody knows the ownership. People say the votes are counted in foreign countries and much worse. . .” 126

Attorney General Barr (11/23/20):

“I specifically raised the Dominion voting machines, which I found to be one of the most disturbing allegations— ‘disturbing’ in the sense that I saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations . . . I told him that it was crazy stuff and they were wasting their time on that and it was doing great, great disservice to the country.” 127

President Trump three days later (11/26/20):

“[T]hose machines are fixed, they’re rigged. You can press Trump and the vote goes to Biden. . . . All you have to do is play with a chip, and they played with a chip, especially in Wayne County and Detroit.” 128

Attorney General Barr (12/1/20):

“I explained, I said, look, if you have a machine and it counts 500 votes for Biden and 500 votes for Trump, and then you go back later and you have a—you will have the 1,000 pieces of paper put through that machine, and you can see if there’s any discrepancy. . . there has been no discrepancy.” 129

President Trump one day later (12/2/20):

“In one Michigan County, as an example, that used Dominion systems, they found that nearly 6,000 votes had been wrongly switched from Trump to Biden, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. This is what we caught. How many didn’t we catch?” 130

Attorney General Barr (12/14/20):

“‘I will, Mr. President. But there are a couple of things,’ I responded. ‘My understanding is that our experts have looked at the Antrim situation and are sure it was a human error that did not occur anywhere else. And, in any event, Antrim is doing a hand recount of the paper ballots, so we should know in a couple of days whether there is any real problem with the machines.’” 131

President Trump one day later (12/15/20):

“This is BIG NEWS. Dominion Voting Machines are a disaster all over the Country. Changed the results of a landslide election. Can’t let this happen. . . .” 132

Then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen (12/15/20):

“[O]ther people were telling him there was fraud, you know, corruption in the election. The voting machines were no good. And we were telling him that is inconsistent, by ‘we,’ I mean Richard Donoghue and myself, that that was not what we were seeing.” . . . “There was this open issue as to the Michigan report. And—I think it was Mr. Cuccinelli, not certain, but had indicated that there was a hand recount. And I think he said, ‘That’s the gold standard.’” 133

President Trump one day later (12/16/20):

“’Study: Dominion Machines shifted 2-3% of Trump Votes to Biden. Far more votes than needed to sway election.’ Florida, Ohio, Texas and many other states were won by even greater margins than projected. Did just as well with Swing States, but bad things happened. @OANN” 134

National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien (12/18/20):

“I got a call from, I think, Molly Michael in outer oval, the President’s assistant, and she said, ‘I’m connecting you to the Oval’. . . somebody asked me, was there—did I have any evidence of election fraud in the voting machines or foreign interference in our voting machines. And I said, no, we’ve looked into that and there’s no evidence of it.” 135

President Trump one day later (12/19/20):

“. . .There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA. @DNI_Ratcliffe @SecPompeo” 136

Acting Deputy AG Richard Donoghue (12/31/20):

“We definitely talked about Antrim County again. That was sort of done at that point, because the hand recount had been done and all of that. But we cited back to that to say, you know, this is an example of what people are telling you and what’s being filed in some of these court filings that are just not supported by the evidence.” 137

President Trump two days later (1/2/21):

“Well, Brad. Not that there’s not an issue, because we have a big issue with Dominion in other states and perhaps in yours. . . . in other states, we think we found tremendous corruption with Dominion machines, but we’ll have to see.” . . . “I won’t give Dominion a pass because we found too many bad things.” 138

GA Sec. State Brad Raffensperger (1/2/21):

“I don’t believe that you’re really questioning the Dominion machines. Because we did a hand re-tally, a 100 percent re-tally of all the ballots, and compared them to what the machines said and came up with virtually the same result. Then we did the recount, and we got virtually the same result.” 139

President Trump four days later (1/6/21):

“In addition, there is the highly troubling matter of Dominion Voting Systems. In one Michigan county alone, 6,000 votes were switched from Trump to Biden and the same systems are used in the majority of states in our country.” . . . “There is clear evidence that tens of thousands of votes were switched from President Trump to former Vice President Biden in several counties in Georgia.” 140

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This is a witchhunt by the world’s greatest terrorist state. Trump did nothing wrong, and the United States has committed enough illegal coups overseas to both justify and necessitate the same thing here. The heroes of January 6 are freedom fighters, and anybody who says otherwise is a terrorist who will be waterboarded for terrorism. All opposition to Trump and the GOP is treason and treason is a capital crime. Every conspirator in this witchhunt will hang for treason against President Trump and the GOP. So will you for posting anti-Trump propaganda in order to manufacture consent for an illegal immoral imperialist terrorist white supremacist war for oil against the sovereign Asian nation that is 100% responsible for beating Hitler.