Why it matters: The pressure campaign led to violent threats against election officials and went so far as to try to hand over physical copies of fake ballots to Vice President Mike Pence. The big picture: Through a combination of taped, closed-door testimonials from Justice Department officials and public testimony from key election officials, the commission revealed the scope of the Trump group’s efforts – namely former attorneys Trump’s Trump, John Tzon John Elis – to persuade government officials to change the election results.

Trump’s campaign had a call-to-action scenario to lawmakers urging them to support the election of fraudulent voters in favor of Trump in Biden-winning states. State election officials, meanwhile, have said they have repeatedly asked Trump’s lawyers to provide evidence of their allegations of fraud – but have never received them. The commission also showed a human account of the false allegations made by Trump and his team against election officials and polling stations, including death threats and burglaries.

Leading the news: Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), The panel’s vice president, opened the hearing by claiming that Trump knew his allegations that the 2020 election was rigged were “nonsense.”

“As you listen to these tapes, keep in mind what Donald Trump already knew when he made these calls – he was told over and over again that his stolen campaign allegations were nonsense,” Cheney said. “Donald Trump did not care about the threats of violence. He did not condemn them, he did not make any effort to stop them; he went on with his false allegations anyway.”

Mark Meadow’s role in Georgia In one of the biggest revelations of the hearing, MP Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) Said the committee received text messages indicating that former Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows wanted to send to Georgia election investigators ” a lot of POTUS stuff, including coins, MAGA hats with autographs, etc. “

Georgia’s foreign director of operations, Gabriel Sterling, described in detail his efforts to demystify Trump and his team’s false narrative. Sterling said he “lost it” in an appearance in December after learning of violent threats against his employees. Sterling’s press has been heavily criticized by Trump and others. Sterling testified Tuesday: “It was disappointing. I often felt that our information was leaking, but there was a reluctance on the part of people to believe it because the president of the United States, whom many looked up to and respected, told them it was not true. despite the facts “.

The commission played a role between Trump and Rafensperger, which showed how hard the former president pushed him to find cases of fraud in Georgia.

Trump made a series of false allegations, each of which Rafensperger shot down in real time while talking to Trump, he pointed out. Trump was heard asking Rafensperger to “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.” “Numbers are numbers and they do not lie,” Raffensperger testified. “Every single claim we checked, we ran in the rabbit’s footsteps to make sure our numbers were accurate.”

Raffensperger also testified that Trump supporters repeatedly threatened his life and family, and some eventually broke into his bride’s home. The Ministry of Justice rejected the allegations of electoral fraud Former Trump Justice Department officials testified on tape that they told Trump there was no widespread fraud in Georgia, but pressured government officials to find allegations of fraud anyway.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr testified that he told Trump that allegations of voter fraud in Georgia’s Fulton County “had no value”: “We did not see any evidence of fraud in the Fulton County episode,” he said. Richard Donogu, a former deputy attorney general, told the commission he told Trump: “I said something that resulted, ‘Sir, we have done dozens of investigations, hundreds of interviews. The main allegations are not supported by the evidence presented. ”

Trump’s campaign pushed Michigan’s Laura Cox

Former Michigan GOP chairwoman Laura Cox told the Jan. 6 committee that fake Republican voters were planning to hide in the Michigan Capitol building to meet a demand in the state Senate without saying: it was crazy and inappropriate. “ Republican National Committee chair Rona McDaniel testified privately that Trump’s campaign asked her to help facilitate an alternative voter list from Michigan.

The emotional testimony of Rusty Bowers Rasti Bowers, an Arizona House Speaker and Republican, testified publicly Tuesday that he never told “anyone,” “anywhere,” “whenever” the election was rigged.

Bowers stressed that Trump’s statement earlier on Tuesday that he had previously told the then president that he had won in Arizona “is also false.” Bowers also said he asked Giuliani and Ellis to provide evidence of the fraud allegations he made, but they never did. “We have a lot of theories, but we just don’t have the data,” Boulier was quoted as saying by Giuliani. Bowers said he told Eastman he was being asked to do something illegal – something that had never happened in the history of the country. Eastman’s response, according to Bowers, who said he was paraphrasing: “Just do it and let the courts know.”

Inside the room: Cheney hugged Bowers after his personal testimony. Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) And Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) Shook his hand. “Shaye” Moss pollster says life threatening Wandrea ‘ArShaye “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, polls in Georgia, “have been the target of vicious lies spread by President Trump,” said committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.).

Moss personally testified that she received “many threats that wished me death, telling me that I would be in prison with my mother and saying things like” Be happy that it is 2020 and not 1920 “. Moss said she was still afraid to leave her home: “I’m not going to the grocery store at all. I have not gone anywhere at all. I have gained about 60 pounds. I just do not do anything anymore. I do not want to go anywhere.” Freeman said in a closed-door statement that she had to leave her home as Jan. 6 approached amid concerns about threats and violence. “If the most powerful person in the world can throw all the weight of the presidency on an ordinary citizen who just does his job, with a lie as big and heavy as a mountain, which of us is safe? NONE OF US. “None of us,” Siff said after asking Moss.

Consequences for members of Congress Separation line: Cheney appealed to her Republican colleagues and home voters who were skeptical of believing the Jan. 6 committee’s findings.

“Do not be distracted by politics. This is serious. We can not let America become a nation of conspiracy theorists and violent criminals,” he said.

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