He mounted a pressure campaign directed at individual State legislators to try to get them to go back into session.

He fought to hold on to power. As we have seen in previous hearings, he did so through a variety of means.

The State pressure campaign and the danger it posed to State officials and to State capitols around the Nation was a dangerous precursor to the violence we saw on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol.

No legitimate State authority in the States Donald Trump lost would agree to appoint fake Trump electors and send them to Congress.

What did Mr. Biggs ask you to do?

Mr. Secretary, was the President here asking you for exactly what he wanted--one more vote than his opponent?

In your view, what he was asking you to do would have violated your oath to the Constitution?

I will not play with laws I swore allegiance to, with any contrived desire toward deflection of my deep foundational desire to follow God's will as I believe He led my conscience to embrace.

President Biden carried the State of Georgia by approximately 12,000 votes.

In fact, the day after Donald Trump released that video--so, now we are talking just 2 days after the emotional warning that you gave that someone is going to get killed--representatives of President Trump appeared in Georgia, including…

Now, I understand that when you reviewed these tapes and did the analysis, it disproved this conspiracy theory.

Our job, from our point of view, was to get the facts out, do our job, tell the truth, follow the Constitution, follow the law, and defend the institutions.

For more than 200 years, our democracy has been distinguished by the peaceful transfer of power.

In this Committee's hearing last Monday, we heard from senior Federal law enforcement officials--from the senior-most Federal law enforcement official in Atlanta at the time, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District BJay Pak, as well as…

If the most powerful person in the world can bring the full weight of the presidency down on an ordinary citizen, who among us is safe? None of us is, none of us.

No matter how many times senior Department of Justice officials, including his own Attorney General, told the President that these allegations were not true, President Trump kept promoting these lies and putting pressure on State officials…

That important date, of course, was the joint session of Congress, where Georgia's electoral votes would be counted for Joe Biden.

Finally, the President claims that there was a minimum of 18,000 ballots somehow smuggled in, all for Biden. I take it, gentlemen, that was also categorically false?