When Donald Trump stepped to a podium Nov. 4, 2020, and declared himself the winner of the presidential election, millions of his supporters apparently believed him — but Trump’s own advisers and campaign operatives knew better.
The Jan. 6 select committee, in its second of six scheduled public hearings, plans to highlight Monday the corrosive effect of Trump’s lie — and his weeks pumping it up with the help of political allies, friendly media megaphones and members of Congress. Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in the weeks between Election Day and Jan. 6, 2021, a haul heavily influenced by those efforts to sow doubt about the results of the election.
Those lies became the scaffolding on which every other aspect of Trump’s effort to remain in power depended — a push to get the Justice Department to legitimize his false claims, an effort to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to derail the transition of power. Eventually, they became the fuel for the pro-Trump mob the battered its way into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
The select committee says it intends to show that many of the people who joined that mob had been inundated by those messages from Trump and his allies, which may have contributed to their radicalization.
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