Actually it was the oval office and there was also an internet millionaire. A Jr staffer let them in.
That WH was a smooth running machine.
Herschmann said both he and Derek Lyons, the White House staff secretary, reminded Powell that the Trump campaign had lost roughly 60 cases challenging the results of the 2020 election.
“And she was, like, ‘Well, the judges are corrupt.’ And I was like, ‘Everyone? Every single case that you’ve done in the country, you guys lost. Every one of them is corrupt? Even the ones we appointed?’” Herschmann said, recounting the argument.
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The wild session — during which Trump weighed seizing voting machines from key counties, deploying the National Guard to potentially rerun the election or appointing lawyer Sidney Powell as a special counsel to investigate the election — had been widely reported in past accounts of Trump’s final weeks in office.
We were pushing back and asking one simple question as a general matter: Where is the evidence?” he recounted.
According to Cipollone, Powell and the others reacted with anger, suggesting that even asking the question was a sign that Trump’s White House team was insufficiently loyal to him.
"If it had been me sitting in his chair, I would have fired all of them that night and had them escorted out of the building,” Powell testified.
The group recommended that Trump sign an executive order — they had brought a draft — that would appoint Powell as special counsel and instruct the Defense Department to seize voting machines, testimony showed.
Giuliani explained to the committee what he told Trump’s closest advisers that day: “I’m going to categorically describe it as, ‘You guys are not tough enough.’ Or maybe I put it another way, ‘You’re a bunch of pussies.’
But at 1:42 a.m., Trump made clear which side in the debate had won his heart.
“Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election,” he tweeted. “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild.”
That WH was a smooth running machine.
Herschmann said both he and Derek Lyons, the White House staff secretary, reminded Powell that the Trump campaign had lost roughly 60 cases challenging the results of the 2020 election.
“And she was, like, ‘Well, the judges are corrupt.’ And I was like, ‘Everyone? Every single case that you’ve done in the country, you guys lost. Every one of them is corrupt? Even the ones we appointed?’” Herschmann said, recounting the argument.
'Unhinged': At Trump Oval Office meeting, shouting nearly devolved to blows
“The meeting has been called ‘unhinged,’ ‘not normal’ and the ‘craziest meeting of the Trump presidency,’” said Rep. Jamie Raskin.
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The wild session — during which Trump weighed seizing voting machines from key counties, deploying the National Guard to potentially rerun the election or appointing lawyer Sidney Powell as a special counsel to investigate the election — had been widely reported in past accounts of Trump’s final weeks in office.
We were pushing back and asking one simple question as a general matter: Where is the evidence?” he recounted.
According to Cipollone, Powell and the others reacted with anger, suggesting that even asking the question was a sign that Trump’s White House team was insufficiently loyal to him.
"If it had been me sitting in his chair, I would have fired all of them that night and had them escorted out of the building,” Powell testified.
The group recommended that Trump sign an executive order — they had brought a draft — that would appoint Powell as special counsel and instruct the Defense Department to seize voting machines, testimony showed.
Giuliani explained to the committee what he told Trump’s closest advisers that day: “I’m going to categorically describe it as, ‘You guys are not tough enough.’ Or maybe I put it another way, ‘You’re a bunch of pussies.’
But at 1:42 a.m., Trump made clear which side in the debate had won his heart.
“Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election,” he tweeted. “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild.”
