The House panel examining last year's attack on the Capitol accused former President Trump on Monday of purposely lying to the public as he tried to stay in power and raise money from sympathetic supporters — an orchestrated effort the panel said led directly to the deadly insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.
Gathered on Capitol Hill for the second in a series of public hearings into its investigation, the select committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack leaned heavily on the testimony of some of the leading figures in Trump's political orbit to hammer home the notion that, not only were Trump's claims of rampant voter fraud false, but also that the former president knew them to be so.
Former Attorney General William Barr delivered a particularly damning portrait of Trump as someone increasingly "detached from reality" following the election.
He said the Justice Department was forced to play "whack-a-mole" as false fraud allegations poured in from Trump supporters around the country. One by one, the department investigated the claims but found no wrongdoing.
"And I told him that the stuff that his people were shoveling out to the public was bullshit, I mean, that the claims of fraud were bullshit," Barr told the committee in a taped interview that was aired during Monday's hearing. "And, you know, he was indignant about that."
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The Jan. 6 committee's next hearing will take place Wednesday morning.
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