On election day, Vice President Pence’s staff, including his Chief of Staff and Counsel, became concerned that President Trump might falsely claim victory that evening. The Vice President’s Counsel, Greg Jacob, testified about their concern that the Vice President might be asked improperly to echo such a false statement.45 Jacob drafted a memorandum with this specific recommendation: “[I]t is essential that the Vice President not be perceived by the public as having decided questions concerning disputed electoral votes prior to the full development of all relevant facts.”
MY ANALYSIS; From this passage, we see that Vice -President Pences' staff was afraid that he would be asked to claim Election Fraud long before such a conclusion could be reasonably made. His Counsel Greg Jacob advised that such a claim would be improper, making a false statement without facts.
Millions of Americans believed that President Trump was telling the truth on election night—that President Trump actually had proof the election was stolen and that the ongoing counting of votes was an act of fraud. As votes were being counted in the days after the election, President Trump’s senior campaign advisors informed him that his chances of success were almost zero.
Former Trump Campaign Manager Bill Stepien testified that he had come to this conclusion by November 7th, and told President Trump: Committee Staff: What was your view on the state of the election at that point? Stepien: You know, very, very, very bleak...
Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Jason Miller testified to the Committee about this exchange: Miller: I was in the Oval Office. And at some point in the conversation Matt Oczkowski, who was the lead data person, was brought on, and I remember he delivered to the President in pretty blunt terms that he was going to lose. Committee Staff: And that was based, Mr. Miller, on Matt and the data team’s assessment of this sort of county-by-county, State-byState results as reported? Miller: Correct.
In one of the Select Committee’s hearings, former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt was asked what the chance President Trump had of winning the election after November 7th, when the votes were tallied and every news organization had called the race for now-President Biden. His response: “None.”
MY ANALYSIS; From this section we see that Donald Trumps claims of election fraud, made on election night and repeated time and time again, were made without any consideration of the opinion of members of his own campaign staff, or the News Media in general. He was told he was going to lose, and there was little or nothing to substantiate any avenue for victory. The Main Point is that his own staff could not bring themselves to perpetuate the fantasy world of a Trump victory.
In the weeks that followed the election, President Trump’s campaign experts and his senior Justice Department officials were informing him...no genuine evidence of fraud sufficient to change the results of the election...former Attorney General Barr testified:
And I repeatedly told the President in no uncertain terms that I did not see evidence of fraud, you know, that would have affected the outcome of the election. And, frankly, a year and a half later, I haven’t seen anything to change my mind on that.
MY ANALYSIS; From the above information, we see that all the Legal Advice he was getting, from the Justice Dept and his Leading Campaign Staffers, was that there was no evidence of the election returns being fraudulent enough to overturn the 2020 Election results. This was emphasized by the testimony of his own Attorney General William Barr, who even up to the time of the hearing had seen nothing that would alter his opinion.
