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4 lessons from Trump's pressure campaign on election officials
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/21/4-lessons-trump-pressure-campaign-officials-jan-6-hearing/No paywall
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The House Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday provided multiple memorable moments, including Arizona House Speaker Russell “Rusty” Bowers’s moving devotion to the Constitution.
Beyond that, viewers should draw at least four conclusions about former president Donald Trump’s campaign to pressure election officials:
1 Forget the excuses about Trump’s “intent”
The evidence the committee presented on Tuesday largely destroyed the bogus argument that “intent” is a barrier to prosecution. Bowers’s testimony about Rudy Giuliani’s supposed gaffe that the Trump camp had “lots of theories” but no “evidence” was as damning a confession as any.
The attempts to deceive electors also point to corrupt intent. Former Michigan GOP chair Laura Cox testified that the Trump campaign told her that fake electors would “hide overnight” in the state Capitol to cast votes in the chamber. She said she responded “in no uncertain terms that that was insane and inappropriate.”
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