supporters in the white house. they were telling him, using many different kinds of words, that what he was saying was a lie. he lied in an effort to stop the counting of ballots on election night and to later cast doubt on their validity. and allegedly he lied in pursuit of a quarter billion dollars in campaign donations to a fund he lied about the very existence of, an election defense fund that did not exist. those are the elements of the case the january 6th committee is building against donald trump, and today in the second installment of televised hearings, it was testimony from some of the former president s most senior advisers at the time who actually made that case, including his campaign manager, bill stepien, and the sitting attorney general of the united states at the time, bill barr. as you ll hear and this is from the other or this is the other takeaway from today s proceedings, much of what they had to say to the former president at the time and more recen
with people are ineven rated and i still haven t heard anything as crazy as the stuff i ve heard today. i ve been on the committee for some time and there s things i m not going to talk about. but when you talk about rudy giuliani and the people actually grifting off of this, i m going to tell you this. everybody had a money motive here. i think when you saw the financial individual, amanda, talk about the $250 million, i think that s the floor. when you talk about conspiracy theories, rudy giuliani, lynn wood and sidney powell, you don t have to be inebriated to make a lot of money off a lie. the big lie was really the basis for the big grift. i want to introduce one term to the american public right now, and i hope they re ready. it s very technical. that s the fact that this whole big lie was a self-licking ice cream cone. what i mean by that it self-per pet waits itself. all the people you saw today, what they call team normal, really did set aside or put forward facts that say tha
like you, i m surprised that this hearing didn t happen in march or april as opposed to in july. but it s really important. it s important because federal courts are not are not to be trifled with with just out and out lies. with rumor and comment section nonsense. the way that rudy giuliani and lynn wood and sidney powell did, and they are officers of the court. they are they have a responsibility and a duty not to do what they did. and i just hope that they face the most severe punishment possible, because it s it s just important for the nation to
hear about rule 11 sanctions. they come after you for sanctions. if it s not filed in goods faith you re going to get hammered by federal judges. i don t think there was a lawyer that started at a law firm that they didn t get that warning. that was one of the things shocking to me, rudy giuliani was filing these things and lynn wood and sidney powell, they would file these crazy lawsuits and i would keep wondering, how are they doing this? how can they get away with this? because i know if this had happened in northwest florida, in front of the three federal judges that were there when i was practicing, man, you would have lost your law license in a second. they would have disbarred you in a second. i mean, seriously, it wouldn t have been a close call.
trump jr. according to the filings. two of former president trump s most outspoken election attorneys are facing possible sanctions for their efforts to overturn joe biden s win in michigan. sidney powell and lynn wood appeared via zoom. the two filed a lawsuit in november that was littered with lies, some of which were repeated by donald trump himself. the two now trying to distance themselves from the claims, wood saying my name was placed on there, but i had no involvement, i did not review the documents. the judge asked the attorneys how long they reviewed the sworn declarations that they told the court constituted efforts of fraud and irregular laters, this according to the washington post. the judge stated she believed