Several high-ranking Republicans in swing states told members of the bipartisan committee investigating last year ‘s attack on the US Capitol that they had been summoned several times by the former president himself or his senior lawyers after the vote. Some have described how lawyers, including Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, asked them to validate their state results or send fake voter lists to Washington in an effort to declare Trump victorious. Rasti Bowers, the Republican speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, said he told the former president: “You are asking me to do something contrary to my oath, which I swore to abide by in the constitution, as well as in the constitution. and the laws of the state of Arizona. That’s completely foreign. “ Georgia’s Foreign Minister Brad Rafensperger has revealed details of a famous 67-minute telephone conversation with Trump in which the former president urged him to “find 11,780 votes.” Raffensperger described how he had repeatedly told Trump that his allegations of electoral fraud were false, but said the president had not listened and had refused to consider evidence that Raffensperger said had helped prove his case. Trump and his lawyers have pressed officials to dismiss the election results as part of a plan to falsely declare the winner of the 2020 election. .

“This campaign of pressure brought angry phone calls and messages, armed protests, intimidation and very often threats of violence and death,” said commission member Adam Siff, referring to statements by government officials about threatening behavior by voters who believed the election . . Trump’s plan was based on the occult certification system of the US presidential election, which requires states to select voter lists that will formally submit their results to Congress in Washington. The former president pushed state officials to choose “alternative” lists of voters who would declare him a winner even in states where he had lost the vote. When they refused, his campaign brought together groups of fake voters to present their results anyway. Members listened to Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who said the White House’s legal adviser had ruled the plan illegal. Sif said: “State legislators have stood out. “Likewise, election officials across the state, even local election workers who did their job diligently, were accused of being criminals and their lives were turned upside down.” Several witnesses described receiving death threats after being targeted by the former president. In an emotionally charged appearance, Wandrea Moss, who was an election official in Georgia, told committee members she had just left her home since Trump began claiming she and her mother were part of a conspiracy. for voter fraud. Trump supporters targeted Moss and Ruby Freeman’s mother after the then president and Giuliani began to falsely claim that they had illegally fed fake ballots through electoral machines. “I do not want to go anywhere,” he told committee members. “Second I guess everything I do. “It affected my life in a big way, in every way – all because of the lies and where I did my job.” In a videotaped testimony, several state-level Republicans described how their contact information had also been leaked by Trump or those close to him in an effort to increase public pressure on them. Mike Shirky, the leader of the Republican majority in the Michigan Senate, told members he was overwhelmed by messages following a tweet from Trump’s personal telephone number. “All I can remember is that I received just 4,000 text messages in a short period of time, calling for action,” he said. “[They were saying] “We hear Trump people calling for change and you can do it.” “Well, you know, they believed things that were untrue.”