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Fourth hearing on the storming of the US Capitol: This time it was about how ex-President Donald Trump and his supporters tried to overturn the presidential election with threats.
Trump had lost crucial votes in the states of Georgia and Arizona.
On January 2, 2021, he called Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Donald Trump, ex-US President: »I just want to find 11,780 votes. That's one more than we have now - because we won the state."
But his Republican party colleagues refused to give in to the pressure.
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State: “In the end, President Trump got the short end of the stick. But I had to be true to the Constitution. I swore an oath to that.”
Raffensperger also describes what happened afterwards.
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State: »After the elections, my email address and cell phone number were published on the internet. I got messages from all over the country, then my wife too. The messages to her were sexist, just gross.”
Election workers were also apparently the target of the intrigues of Trump and his supporters.
Adam Schiff, California Democrat: “President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and others have alleged, based on video, that you and your mother were in some way involved in a conspiracy. To drive out election observers, bring suitcases with bogus ballots for Joe Biden into the polling arena, and then run them through the machines multiple times. None of that was true, was it?'
Wandrea Arshaye Moss, Former Georgia Campaign Clerk: "None of that."
Adam Schiff, California Democrat: “In one of the videos, Rudolph Giuliani accused them of passing some kind of flash drive to each other. What did your mother give you in the video?”
Wandrea Arshaye Moss, ex-Georgia campaigner: "A gingerbread."
Moss reported how racist threats from Trump supporters have since changed her life.
Wandrea Arshaye Moss, Former Georgia Campaigner:
I question everything I do.
It affects my life in every way.
All because of the lies.
Because I did my job as always.«
Arizona House Speaker at the time, Republican Rusty Bowers, reported that Trump confidante Rudy Giuliani had failed to change the outcome.
Rusty Bowers, Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives:
"If I remember correctly, he said: We have many theories.
We just don't have the evidence.
And I don't know if that was a faux pas or maybe he didn't quite think through what he was saying."
Bowers never received the missing evidence.
It all seemed like a tragic parody to him.
Donald Trump continues to speak of voter fraud without providing any evidence.
According to polls, more than two-thirds of Republicans are convinced that the ex-president was robbed of the election victory.
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