rusty bowers, adult daughter, in fact, was terminally ill. at the time. he and his wife was caring for her when this happened at her home, she died on january 28th, 2021. think about that timing. january 28th, 2021. so at this point, we got the violence and intimidation of threats, that trump brought to bear on these people to try to get them with they don t want to do. to try to get them to overthrow the election, force them into it. we ve got a vivid account of trump s campaign against also, individual election workers. one of which prompted gabriel sterling, a senior official in the georgia secretary of state s office, to react publicly in an irate fashion, to try to protect the workers who were getting threatened. and another election worker who was the final witness today, which was some incredible testimony. we will get to that in just a moment. but, again, before we move on, i want to just make sure that we take stock here and that we are observing this. i think part of which
they were going to hide in the michigan state house overnight. so that they wouldn t be discovered and thrown out, and instead they could sneak into doing their pick elector certificates. before the real electors got there, and then maybe they would be counted or something? but i think again, if you take it all as a piece, the point today, i think there were many points, but substantively it all came back to trump. yeah. trump was on the phone with the witnesses. trump was campaign to do this. we don t know yet if trump wanted johnson to be the cut out. he is like a freaking cut out for to overthrow the election. i also think that the crimes that have been dropped about republican accomplices are irrisestible, i think a lot of people listen list cheney s final whack at the and about doing your duty and ignoring
to say, this is your task. you are responsible for the electoral college issues moving forward. and this was my way of taking that responsibility to zero. the committee learned the white house counsel s office also thought the plan was potentially illegal. and to be clear, did you hear the white house counsel s office say that this plan to have alter electives and meets cast votes for donald trump, in states that he had laws, was now illegally sound? yes sir. and who was present for that meeting, that you remember? it was an hour offices. mr. meadows, mr. giuliani, and a few of mr. giuliani s associates. the select committee interviewed several of the individual fake collectors as well as trump campaign staff, who helped organize the effort. we were just kind of useful idiots, or ruse, at that point. a strong part of me really feels that it s just kind of as the road continued, as it was
and it kind of sounds nice. but it sounds civic. it made me even sound civil. it was not. today is the day the investigators showed what they have discovered about the character of the pressure president trump applied to officials in states he lost, to try to get them to falsify the election results, and say he won. we got the character of the pressure, and the president s direct personal involvement in it. we also got the direct link from that pressure, to violence and threats of violence against the people who were targeted by the president. we also got, i think, deeply affecting testimony about how it ruined their lives. if you can convince americans that they cannot trust their own elections, that anytime they lose, it is somehow illegitimate, then what is left but to violence to determine who should govern? when state elections officials refused to stop the count, donald trump and his campaign tried to put pressure on them. when state executive officials
refused to certify the winner of the states he lost, he applied more pressure. when state legislators refused to go back into session and appoint trump electors, he amped up the pressure yet again. anyone who got in the way of donald trump s continued hold on power, after he lost the election was the subject of a dangerous and escalating campaign of pressure. this pressure campaign brought angry phone calls and texts, armed protests, intimidation, and all too often, threats of violence, and death. the point is this, donald trump did not care about the threats of violence. he did not condemn them. he made no effort to stop them. he went forward with his fake allegations anyway. one more point, i would urge all of those watching today to focus on the evidence the committee will present. don t be distracted by politics.