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Dollars from supporters who were told their donations were for the legal fight in the courts. but the trump campaign didn't use the money for. that the big lie was also a big ripoff. >> oh. so, not only is the committee acausing trump of trying to dupe his base into believing that he was robbed of a second term in office, the panel is accusing his campaign of using those lies to swindle his own supporters out of money for his legal fight, money that was allegedly not even allocated to that at all. the big ripoff, as congresswoman zoe lofgren calls it. right after the hearing she told cnn that ...

Trapdoor, this way of saying yeah, but i didn't really lose, i was cheated. doesn't matter, whether it is a game of golf, or it is our democracy. it is all the same. >> it doesn't matter if it was on the level, a game of golf or a local election or the national election. misses congresswoman -- yeah, congressman zoe lofgren, her opening statement. watch. >> will also show that the trump campaign used false claims of election fraud to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters, who were told their donations were for the legal fight in the courts. but, the trump campaign did not use t...

Tried to really tie back what -- the lies that president trump was saying, back to what the trump voters were echoing that day at the capitol, i thought it was compelling. they closed out the first hearing with that. they played clips of people who were participating in the insurrection at the capitol. all the lies they had batted away, but illustrated just how much that big lie had seeped into their conscious. >> and congresswoman lofgren there called it the big ripoff. a committee staff investigator laid it out in more detail. >> the claims that the election was stolen were so successful. pr...

He was using it to -- >> it will also show claims of supporters who were told their donations were for the legal fight in the courts. but the trump campaign didn't use the money for that. the big lie was also a big ripoff. >> one of the examples she cited was donald trump junior's -- are they married, fiance? >> partner. partner. >> 60$,000 she got paid to give a 2 .5 minute speech at the january 6th rally. i assume that's the family and friends discount. >> right. they're trying to show a lot of things. one of them is try to tell trump voter who is are very beholden to these false claims that...

More time to prepare its video and get all of its elements together. this after the taped testimony yesterday of former attorney general bill barr saying that donald trump was, quote, detached from reality as he pushed, after the election, to overturn the loss in the lead-up to the riot. the committee found that the big lie helped trump raise $250 million for a non-existent fund for lawyers to help overturn the election. the money instead going for other purposes, including the trump campaign. >> throughout the committee's investigation, we found evidence that the trump campaign and its surrog...