of people that included roger stone and steve bannon urging trump to declare victory regardless of the results, the actual legal results, of the 2020 election. now the january 6th select committee cites a memo that fitton wrote for trump in the run-up to election day, i think the summer before the election, as evidence that in the words of committee member zoe love gren friend the big lie was untensional, promeditated and a plan concocted in advance. here s a snippet from the january 6th select committee s final hearing. a few days before the election, mr. trump also consulted with one of husband outside advisers inside activist tom fitton about the strategy for election night. the select committee got this pre-prepared statement from the national archives. as you can see, the draft statement, which was sent on october 31st, declares we had an election today and i won, and the fitton memo specifically indicates a plan that only the votes counted by the election day deadline
of people that included roger stone and steve bannon urging trump to declare victory regardless of the results, the actual legal results, of the 2020 election. now the january 6th select committee cites a memo that fitton wrote for trump in the run-up to election day, i think the summer before the election, as evidence that in the words of committee member zoe love gren friend the big lie was untensional, promeditated and a plan concocted in advance. here s a snippet from the january 6th select committee s final hearing. a few days before the election, mr. trump also consulted with one of husband outside advisers inside activist tom fitton about the strategy for election night. the select committee got this pre-prepared statement from the national archives. as you can see, the draft statement, which was sent on october 31st, declares we had an
and those conversations that he had around trying to formulate an external strategy to combat the narrative that was being formed around his refusal to give back these classified documents. harry, this is what the january 6th report says about this time line that jacuzzi focusing in on. the committee has assembled a range of evidence of trump s pre-planning for a false declaration of victory this. includes multiple written communications on october had 31st and november 23rd 2020 by the white house to judicial watch tom fitton. this evidence demonstrates fitton was in direct contact with trump and understand that trump would falsely declare victory on election night and call for vote-counting to stop. that s exactly what trump does. i think i was out here in the studio when he went out and did that. you take that with some of the transcripts, general mark millie s transcript was
evidence-gathering around intent and intent to perpetrate a fraud on the american people to be. what might and we ll take the two probes because we don t know why mr. fitton was there, but we ll take the two probes separately. what might the significance be if he s there answering questions about january 6th. nicole, that s a really good question. tom fitton was not someone who was covered in depth as some of the other players during the january 6th congressional committee s investigation, but he is someone who is extremely influential. we know that he in part co-founded groundswell with ginni thomas, groundswell a group of high-powered conservative activists that secretly convened and formed in part to sort of fight the establishment and fight the establishment conservatives from becoming more progressive, and we know in the lead up to january 6th months before the
so again, i just think that donald trump really tried to tough into the pulse of these individuals in that maga world, who really do embrace a gun culture like the wild west days of war. we are in the 21st century. we shouldn t have in the halls of congress and committee rooms individual who is are armed. what they are concerned about, a lot of the republicans are pushing this those are the ones, as you pointed out, would incite some of the activities of january 6th. so just to bring this into the real threat environment, as we all have this conversation today, this is from two weeks ago. police investigated 7,500 threats against members of congress last year. last year s numbers marked the first decline in five years, but remained historically high, nearly double the 3rkz 900 from