here s what it attorney general bill barr had to say about the same allegations. i took a look, a hard look at this ourselves. based on our review of it, including the interviews of the key witnesses at fulton county allegations were of no merit. we also have testimony from senior department of justice officials establishing that they specifically told president trump that these allegations had been thoroughly investigated and were completely without merit. here s acting attorney deputy attorney general richard donahue describing the phone conversation in which he specifically told president trump that these allegations were false. and he kept fixating on the suitcase that supposedly had fraudulent ballots, that the suitcase was rolled out from the table. i said, no sir, there is no suitcase. you can watch that video over and over, there is no suitcase.
it happens in congressional proceedings too, and audiences and juries judge witnesses harshly when they have these sort of credibility slipups. that said, victor, it s very important to note that it doesn t negate the hour and 55 minutes of other testimony she gave, many of it much of it quite compelling and quite persuasive, and on top of that, what is it eight hours of testimony prior to that that the committee had put on, and so i think a lot of folks are fixating on the fact that there is a dispute here that the committee can clear up, and there s a dispute over this fact, but it doesn t you know, it doesn t negate everything. and the other point is that she was testifying fruitfully as far as truthfully as far as we can tell as to what she heard. there s a dispute as to what she was relaying, but it was still honest sworn testimony, so again, it s the kind of thing that can be cleared up pretty easily by putting those other witnesses on. what s your thought on why the comm
change if you re not sitting in the chair? that gets to the point of the hearings, i think everybody is fixating on my stuff, is it a crime or not? and there s a few difference purposes of it. you re making the case to the american people and the electorate it s a political body. and number three, maybe they will come out with criminal charges to refer to the justice department or not, you know, the justice department can actually still be investigating or choosing not to investigate or prosecute the president right now. ahead, the next chapter of these hearings with former justice department officials and what they could reveal on the former president s use of disinformation to try to overturn the election. that s next. and party every day. i want to rock and roll all night applebee s late night. because half off is just more fun. now that s eatin good in the neighborhood.
ballots claim were nonsense. we know that because we have tape from richard donahue, the number two official after bill barr left. we have tape of his deposition to the january six investigation. i said something to be effective, sir we have done nothing to the investigations hundreds of interviews, the major allegations are not supported by the evidence developed. we look at georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, nevada. we are doing our job and much of the info you are getting is false. i said, okay with regard to georgia we looked at the tape, we interviewed the witnesses and there is no suitcase. the president kept fixating on the suitcase it had ballots, the suitcases rolled out from under the table. and i said, no sir there is no suitcase. you can watch that video over and over. there is no suitcase. there is a wheeled ban where they carried the ballots and that is just how they move
got sophisticated on. all it showed was shae moss and her mom, election workers, literally doing their jobs on election night, taking ballots out of the secured containers they were transporting, like they were supposed to. and wanting them through the ballot counting machine, like they were supposed to. but trump and giuliani in all the trump folks, and friends at fox news, kept running this snippet video over and over, and saying that showed a crime, even though it actually shows just a normal election workers doing normal stuff, the normal way, with no malfeasance whatsoever. but then, fixating on this video, trump not only showing the video of conservative media, showing the video, giuliani, showing the video, and trump specifically naming the women in the video, as the ones who stole the election from him, and that had profound consequences. shae moss and her mom, even her teenage son, got inundated with vulgar and racist harassment and death threats.