MY EVALUATION. PART 5: FINAL REPORT Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.

This is a continuation of the SECTION TITLED: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. 

President Trump’s Campaign Manager Bill Stepien recalled that President Trump was being told “wild allegations”.

Committee Staff: Did you ever have to report that— 

Stepien: One of my frustrations would be that, you know, people would throw out, you know, these reports, these allegations, these things that they heard or saw in a State, and they’d tell President Trump. And, you know, it would be the campaign’s job to track down the information, the facts...

That would be our job as, you know, the truth telling squad and, you know, not—not a fun job to be, you know, much—it’s an easier job to be telling the President about, you know, wild allegations. It’s a harder job to be telling him on the back end that, yeah, that wasn’t true.

Committee Staff: How did he react to those types of conversations where you [told] him that an allegation or another wasn’t true? 

Stepien: He was—he had—usually he had pretty clear eyes. Like, he understood, you know—you know, we told him where we thought the race was, and I think he was pretty realistic with our viewpoint, in agreement with our viewpoint of kind of the forecast and the uphill climb we thought he had.

MY ANALYSIS: From this Testimony, we have a clear indication that Campaign Manager and Staff were well aware of the ACCUSATIONS OF ELECTION FRAUD BEING MADE IN CERTAIN STATES, AND TOOK THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CHECKING OUT THESE ALLEGATIONS.

Further Testimony reveals that Investigations done by his campaign staff revealed THERE WAS NO TRUTH TO THE ACCUSATIONS, AND WHEN THAT WAS REPORTED TO TRUMP, THAT HE SEEMED TO ACCEPT THE FINDINGS, AND UNDERSTOOD THE IMPLICATIONS.

Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Jason Miller told the Committee that he informed President Trump “several” times that “specific to election day fraud and irregularities, there were not enough to overturn the election.”

Vice President Pence has also said publicly that he told President Trump there was no basis to allege that the election was stolen. When a reporter recently asked “Did you ever point blank say to the President [that] we lost this election?,” Pence responded that “I did . . . Many times.”

Pence has also explained: There was never evidence of widespread fraud. I don’t believe fraud changed the outcome of the election. But the President and the Campaign had every right to have those examined in court. But I told the President that, once those legal challenges played out, he should simply accept the outcome of the election and move on.

The General Counsel of President Trump’s campaign, Matthew Morgan, informed members of the White House staff, and likely many others, of the Campaign’s conclusion that none of the allegations of fraud and irregularities could be sufficient to change the outcome of the election...

MY ANALYSIS: As you can see from the above Testimony, PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, AS WELL AS VICE-PRESIDENT PENCE, INFORMED TRUMP THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF FRAUD THAT WOULD OVERTURN THE ELECTION. THESE WERE INDIVIDUALS CHOSEN BY TRUMP, NOT INDIVIDUALS OUTSIDE OF HIS CIRCLE, TELLING HIM THAT HE HAD LOST THE ELECTION, AND THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE TO CONTEST THE LEGALLY SANCTIONED OUTCOME.

TO BE CONTINUED...