The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is making a fraud case against Donald Trump.
The evidence is strong, but will the cultists who support the former president believe it, no matter the proof?
No.
The committee has shown how Trump solicited roughly $250 million from gullible supporters, saying the money was meant to be used for a so-called “Official Election Defense Fund” that, essentially, did not exist.
As Rep. Zoe Lofgren put it during Monday’s public hearing, “Throughout the committee’s investigation, we found evidence that the Trump campaign and its surrogates misled voters as to where their funds would go and what they would be used for. So not only was there the big lie; there was the big rip-off.”
The evidence is there.
‘False election claims to fundraise’
Instead of election challenges, the select committee pointed out that the money solicited by Trump went to “a conservative organization employing former Trump staffers, to the Trump Hotel Collection, to the company that organized the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6” and others.
Amanda Wick, a lawyer for the Jan. 6 committee, said, “The evidence developed by the select committee highlights how the Trump campaign aggressively pushed false election claims to fundraise, telling supporters it would be used to fight voter fraud that did not exist. The emails continued through Jan. 6, even as Trump spoke on the Ellipse. Thirty minutes after the last fundraising…
