Below are the key take aways of the testimony from Republican election officials in Arizona and Georgia:
--Trump knew all along that there was no fraud as explained to him by his own attorneys and DOJ, but continued to push the Big Lie and put pressure on the VP Pence and Republican state official to overturn the election results
--Arizona election official testified that both Trump and Rudy claimed to have evidence of significant voter fraud and Arizona and asked for him to decertify the results. The election official asked for the evidence on two separate occasions. When not produced, Rudy said that they have "theories" but no evidence.
--Georgia election officials along with testimony from Bill Barr debunk the Georgia election fraud claims. Georgia election officials did a machine count, hand count and forensic audit. Bill Barr and the DOJ did an investigation and did not find any fraud. The video regarding the "suitcase" supposedly of 18,000 ballots all for Biden was struck down by the Barr and Georgia election officials.
TRUMP’S CLAIM: That, amid the disruption caused by a broken water main at a vote-counting center in Fulton County, election workers brought in “suitcases or trunks” of ballots.
STERLING’S EXPLANATION: Late in the evening, after the water main break had been fixed, election workers prepared to go home for the night and followed standard procedures to store ballots securely: placing them in containers and affixing numbered seals. But when Mr. Raffensperger found out that they were closing up shop, he ordered them to continue counting through the night — so the workers retrieved the containers and resumed counting ballots.
All of this is on video footage that the secretary of state’s office posted publicly.
“This is what’s really frustrating: The president’s legal team had the entire tape,” Mr. Sterling said. “They watched the entire tape. They intentionally misled the State Senate, the voters and the people of the United States about this.”
--Trump is on tape asking Georgia elections officials to "find" 11,780 votes of which is enough for him to win the election.
--Republican Congressmen assist Trump with the fake electors scheme:
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, who called Bowers on the morning of January 6, 2021, asking him to support decertification of his state's electors for Biden.
"I said I would not," Bowers testified on Tuesday. According to text messages obtained by the committee, an aide to GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin asked an aide to Pence how Johnson could hand- deliver him the fake slates of Trump electors from Michigan and Wisconsin, which had not been sent to the National Archives.
--Trump knew all along that there was no fraud as explained to him by his own attorneys and DOJ, but continued to push the Big Lie and put pressure on the VP Pence and Republican state official to overturn the election results
--Arizona election official testified that both Trump and Rudy claimed to have evidence of significant voter fraud and Arizona and asked for him to decertify the results. The election official asked for the evidence on two separate occasions. When not produced, Rudy said that they have "theories" but no evidence.
--Georgia election officials along with testimony from Bill Barr debunk the Georgia election fraud claims. Georgia election officials did a machine count, hand count and forensic audit. Bill Barr and the DOJ did an investigation and did not find any fraud. The video regarding the "suitcase" supposedly of 18,000 ballots all for Biden was struck down by the Barr and Georgia election officials.
TRUMP’S CLAIM: That, amid the disruption caused by a broken water main at a vote-counting center in Fulton County, election workers brought in “suitcases or trunks” of ballots.
STERLING’S EXPLANATION: Late in the evening, after the water main break had been fixed, election workers prepared to go home for the night and followed standard procedures to store ballots securely: placing them in containers and affixing numbered seals. But when Mr. Raffensperger found out that they were closing up shop, he ordered them to continue counting through the night — so the workers retrieved the containers and resumed counting ballots.
All of this is on video footage that the secretary of state’s office posted publicly.
“This is what’s really frustrating: The president’s legal team had the entire tape,” Mr. Sterling said. “They watched the entire tape. They intentionally misled the State Senate, the voters and the people of the United States about this.”
--Trump is on tape asking Georgia elections officials to "find" 11,780 votes of which is enough for him to win the election.
--Republican Congressmen assist Trump with the fake electors scheme:
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, who called Bowers on the morning of January 6, 2021, asking him to support decertification of his state's electors for Biden.
"I said I would not," Bowers testified on Tuesday. According to text messages obtained by the committee, an aide to GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin asked an aide to Pence how Johnson could hand- deliver him the fake slates of Trump electors from Michigan and Wisconsin, which had not been sent to the National Archives.