Stepien, Bill
A Striking Contrast: Trump Officials Then and Now
The letter was lavish. When William P. Barr stepped down as attorney general in December 2020, he showered President Donald J. Trump with praise for his “unprecedented achievements” and vowed that the Justice Department would continue to pursue the president’s claims of voter fraud “to ensure the integrity of elections.” A year and a half […]
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Jan. 6 Panel Tracks How Trump Created and Spread Election Lies
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol made a wide-ranging case on Monday that former President Donald J. Trump created and relentlessly spread the lie that the 2020 election had been stolen from him in the face of mounting evidence from an expanding chorus of advisers that he […]
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The Fractious Night That Began Trump’s Bid to Overturn the Election
WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani seemed drunk, and he was making a beeline for the president. It was election night in 2020, and President Donald J. Trump was seeing his re-election bid slip away, vote by vote. According to video testimony prepared by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, Mr. […]
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