The Jan. 6 select committee’s first hearing on Thursday leaned heavily on the deposition of former Attorney General William Barr, as the bipartisan panel publicly laid out its case about the events leading up to the 2021 assault on the Capitol.
The very first piece of evidence shown during the hearing was a clip of Barr, who called former President Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election “bullshit.”
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was bullshit,” Barr said in the clip. “And I didn’t want to be
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