Opinion by Eugene Robinson: Trump and Fox News told the “big lie” for profit
In fact, that is what happened. On election night, Stepien testified, he told the president that his chances of victory were down to “5, maybe, maybe, 10 percent.” But according to testimony the committee revealed Monday, an “apparently inebriated” Rudy Giuliani barged in and urged Trump to go ahead with a preexisting plan to preemptively claim victory.
Barr resigned in December 2020. Jeffrey Rosen, who took over as acting attorney general after Barr left, told the committee that he, too, explained to Trump that the claims he was making about voter fraud had no basis in fact. The committee has already made a powerful case for that second scenario. Last Thursday, in prime time, the panel showed how Trump used the “big lie” to draw a big crowd to Washington on Jan. 6 and send those followers to the Capitol, where Congress and Vice President Mike Pence were to certify Biden’s electoral college victory. What ensued was the gravest attack on our democracy since the Civil War.
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