classified intelligence to protect our country. trump, before he was the president, seemed to have a fairly keen understanding of classified information and how to handle it. and in fact, he is charged with 31 counts under the espionage act. the stuff that actually endangers american lives. those people he was talking to in north carolina, on november 3rd, 2016. that s right. that was included in the indictment, not just to expose donald trump s hypocrisy it, may have had nothing to do with it. it was to demonstrate his perfect understanding about the law requires. and it s fundamental importance. there is no argument available to him that he didn t understand the law, of course that s irrelevant, because ignorance of the law is no excuse, if you think it s lawful to rob a bank, if you really need the money badly, that doesn t excuse your robbing the bank. but in any event, he understood perfectly what the law
rl a ial amount of absentee vote. i would imagine dr. oz would have a big lead. whether he wins in the end i don t know. but he will come out front with a big lead because election day vote which tends to be more republican will be counted first before the absentee vote which tends to be more democratic t. pro-fetterman vote will fill in as the night and possibly days fill in. as a reminder to folks, go back to the 2020 presidential election. okay? let me come out here and use georgia as an example. 7:16 p.m. on november 3rd, 2020, votes start coming in. donald trump way ahead. watch that time stamp, okay? 8:07 donald trump still way ahead. midnight november 4th donald trump 315,000 votes ahead. 8 percentage points ahead of joe biden. 24 hours later, donald trump s lead is cut to 33,000 votes. still quite close, but trump on
possibly days wear on. as example as a reminder is to go back to the 2020 presidential election. okay. and let me come out here and use georgia as an example. 7:16 p.m. on november 3rd in 2020, donald trump way ahead. watch that time stamp, okay. 8:07, donald trump still way ahead. midnight, november 4th, donald trump 315 to,000 votes ahead. 8 percentage points ahead of joe biden. 24 hours later the lead is cut to 33,000 votes. still quite close but trump on top. but 24 hours after that, still at 4:47 a.m. november 6th, donald trump has 665 vote lead. it was not until november 7th that joe biden actually came ahead of donald trump in georgia and as we know, joe biden won the state of georgia. it just took some time for all
thank you, mr. chairman, and madame vice chair. on november 3rd, 2020,, donald trump ran for reelection to the office of the presidency, and he lost. his opponent joe biden finished ahead in the key battle ground states of arizona, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, georgia, and elsewhere. nevertheless, and for the first time in history, the losing presidential candidate fought to hold onto power. as we have seen in previous hearings, he did so through a variety of means. on election day, he sought to stop the counting of the vote. knowing that the millions of absentee ballots, elections officials would be counting on election day and there afterwould run strongly against him and deliver a victory to joe biden. next, and when he could not stop the counting, he tried to stop state legislatures and governors from certifying the results of the election. he went to court and filed dozens of frivolous lawsuits
thank you, mr. chairman. on november 3rd, 2020, donald trump ran for reelection to the office of the presidency and he lost. his opponent joe biden finished ahead in the key battleground states of arizona, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, georgia, and elsewhere. the losing presidential candidate fought. he did so through a variety of means. he sought to stop the counting of the vote knowing that the millions of absentee ballots election officials would be counting and thereafter would run strongly against him and deliver a victory to joe biden. next, when he could not stop the counting, he tried to stop state legislatures and governors from certifying the results of the election. he went to court and filed dozens of frivolous lawsuits on