Headline Roundup • June 13th, 2022
Trump Rejected Advice To Wait to Call the 2020 Race, Says Former Campaign Manager
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot held its second public hearing Monday, featuring witness testimonies from several members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle.
In a video deposition to the committee, former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien alleged that Trump ignored the advice of campaign experts to wait to call the 2020 presidential race until the mail-in ballots were counted. Witnesses said Trump was instead guided by Rudy Guiliani on election night, who former Trump spokesperson Jason Miller said was "definitely intoxicated." BJay Pak, a former U.S. attorney for the North District of Georgia who resigned from his position during Trump’s efforts to find voter fraud in the state, said the Trump campaign's allegations about suitcases "full of ballots" in Georgia were false.
Left- and center-rated news sources continue to cover the hearings much more prominently than right-rated outlets. Some left-rated sources highlighted how former Attorney General William Barr said in his testimony that Trump was "detached from reality."
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Former President Trump, advised by an "apparently inebriated" Rudy Giuliani, agreed to falsely declare victory in the 2020 election when it "was far too early to be making any calls like that," Trump advisers testified during the second public hearing into the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Driving the news: "The mayor was definitely intoxicated," Jason Miller, Trump’s former spokesperson said of Giuliani.
Jan. 6 committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) also said that Trump followed advice on election night by an "apparently inebriated" Giuliani.
“It was far too early to be...
Washington Examiner
Rep. Liz Cheney said Monday that then-President Donald Trump took 2020 election night guidance from “an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani” over his campaign experts.
In an opening statement during a hearing of the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Cheney, the panel’s vice chairwoman, said that despite widely circulated reports of how mail-in ballots would be tallied, Trump took Giuliani’s advice to shift other staffers’ election night plans.
“You will also hear testimony that President Trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night and instead followed the...
Washington Post
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection opened its second hearing Monday with assertions that the Capitol attack was the direct result of Donald Trump’s repeated baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. In the second in a series of June hearings, panel members said they will also explore how Trump’s “big lie” drove Republican fundraising appeals after Joe Biden won the election.
The committee played video of its deposition with former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, in which Stepien said he advised Trump on...
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