In the Jan 6 Committee revelations Tuesday, a Trump aide described the wild meeting that took place and the clash between Trump supporters and White House advisors over election fraud claims.
Derek Lyons, former White House staff secretary, said the two camps were “shouting at each other, throwing insults at each other — it wasn’t just sort of people sitting around a couch chit-chatting.”
The outside group of Trump’s advisors including the CEO of Overstock repeatedly accused the White House team of being too weak to further contest the election results.
“I would categorically describe it as: ‘You guys aren’t tough enough,’ ” former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said in a video clip of testimony.
“What they were proposing, I thought, was nuts,” said Herschman, and recalled an exchange with Powell about the integrity of judges who had ruled on the Trump team’s legal challenges.
“She says, ‘Well, the judges are corrupt,’ ” he recounted. “I’m like — ‘Every one? Every single case in the country you guys lost? Every one of them is corrupt? Even the ones we appointed?’ I’m being nice, I was much more harsh to her.”
Members of the Jan. 6 panel played short testimony clips of witnesses describing that meeting, which began in the Oval Office. At one point, they almost got to trying to knock each other out.
In the Oval office.