Trump had a "premeditated plan" to declare himself the winner of the elections even if he lost

Donald Trump and his collaborators did not protest the results of his defeat in the 2020 presidential elections for finding indications of fraud.

On the contrary, Trump had "a premeditated plan" to proclaim himself the winner regardless of the result, according to evidence presented by the House of Representatives commission investigating the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. The commission plans vote this Thursday on a subpoena or requirement for Trump himself to testify.

In what is in principle the last session, the chairman of the committee, Democrat Bennie Thompson, has made it clear that "Donald Trump knew he had lost."

Republican Liz Cheney, Trump's great rival, has warned that "January 6 could happen again."

The messages from his team, from trusted advisers and the then president's own public statements show that there was a pre-established script for Trump to proclaim himself the winner of the elections in any case.

They were counting on the fact that Democratic voters are voting more by mail and were willing to try to slow down the count and proclaim victory as a fait accompli.

Tom Fitton, leader of the conservative group Judicial Watch, even sent an email to a member of Trump's team recommending the text of the statement he had to make to proclaim himself the winner before all the votes were counted.

That message has been found in the National Archives.

Videos initially shot by a Danish director for a documentary have also been shown in which another former Trump adviser, Roger Stone, is seen saying: “The bottom line is to claim victory.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law” and making calls to “go straight to violence”.

"We'll have to start smashing pumpkins, if you know what I mean," he said.

Stone invoked his right not to testify against himself in order to leave the commission's questions unanswered when he was subpoenaed.

Greg Jacob, adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, said in another statement that has been projected in the room that there were people in the White House who planned to proclaim victory on election night itself before the results were known.

The commission has later put the video in which Trump was actually heard saying that he had actually won.

The plan went wrong, but the insistence of Trump and his supporters on proclaiming his victory led to the violent assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, the day that Congress was preparing to certify the victory of Joe Biden.

“This big lie, President Trump's effort to convince Americans that he had won the 2020 election, began before the election results were known.

It was intentional, it was premeditated, it was not based on the results of the election or any evidence of actual fraud affecting the results, or actual problems with the voting machines.

It was a plan hatched in advance, to convince his supporters that he had won, ”said Democratic representative Zoe Logfren.

The last session of the investigation commission was held less than four weeks before the legislative elections on November 8.

In them, a good part of the Republican candidates continue to proclaim the hoax of electoral theft, even though the evidence shows that it was Trump who was willing to ignore the popular will.

In the Republican primaries, many candidates have embraced conspiracy theories to avoid confrontation with Trump, who has great prestige within his party.

Part of the Republican Party, on the other hand, fears that these extremist positions alienate moderate and independent voters.

Some have come to change their discourse once they have won their party's primaries, but many, including some who were in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, maintain the hoax.

The Democratic Party has gone so far as to support some extremist candidates in the primaries in the hope that they will be easier to beat on November 8.

The last session of the commission has been carefully executed, with statements by Trump and his collaborators, including his famous call in which he asked the Florida Secretary of State to "find 11,780 votes", excerpts from statements taken from witnesses, reproductions mail and other documents, alternated with statements by the members of the commission itself.

There have been dozens and dozens of pieces of evidence that all point in the same direction: Trump knew that he had lost, he refused to admit it, he sought to manipulate the result, and that unprecedented attitude later led to the assault on Capitol Hill.

In addition to providing some new evidence, the last session has also served in some way as a summary of the previous ones.

A new statement by Cassidy Hutchison, the subject of one of the previous sessions, has been screened, according to which Trump told his chief of staff, Mark Meadows: “I don't want people to know that we have lost, Mark.

This is shameful.

Fix it up".

Liz Cheney has been blunt: “Our institutions are only sustained when men and women of good faith make them stand, regardless of the political cost.

We have no guarantee that those men and women will be back in their posts next time."

The president of the commission has stressed that most of the statements, like Hutchison's, come from people who worked with Trump: "When you look back at what has come out through the work of this commission, the most surprising thing is that all of this evidence comes almost entirely from Republicans," Thomson said, adding: "This investigation is not about politics.

It's not about the party.

It's about the facts, plain and simple.

And it is about ensuring that our government operates under the rule of law, as our Constitution requires.”

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