At its fourth public hearing, the committee laid out how menace and violence trailed Trump’s election falsehoods, afflicting everyone who resisted, from high-level elected officials to ordinary election workers. During one meeting, he said, Giuliani told him, “We’ve got lots of theories -- we just don’t have the evidence.”“No one provided me -- ever -- such evidence,” Bowers added. Trump’s attorney general at the time, William Barr, told the committee that the Justice Department investigated the claim and found it had “no merit.” So, too, did Georgia officials. Committee members praised the witnesses for standing up for democracy after the 2020 election -- and for willingly testifying about their experiences. And she urged others, like White House counsel Pat Cipollone, apparently still in negotiations with the committee, to follow their lead.
