Anthony Scaramucci told The New York Times that Donald Trump knows his claim of a rigged election is a lie.
In an interview with the Times, Scaramucci said that he believed that the whole thing that the president was doing was a ruse.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Scaraamucci said, Trump would turn to him and others and say, "Why can't people realize what you guys know about me?" He knows that this is not a true story.
A former White House aide told CNN last month that she heard Trump admit that he lost the election.
As Trump faces potential criminal charges for his role in the violent insurrection on January 6, 2021, it is becoming more important than ever to observe such observations.
Criminal intent is important in any charges that may be filed against Trump.
Barbara McQuade, a former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, told the New Yorker that a defense attorney could argue that Trump was trying to stop fraud. It's difficult to prove mindset.
According to witnesses, Trump either knew he had lost the election or was so wedded to power that he would dodge any proper channels and do anything to stay in the White House.
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff MarkMeadows, testified before the House panel last week that Trump had insisted on dropping security screenings at the Jan. 6 rally for his supporters, who were known to carry weapons. As Congress met to certify the 2020 election results, Trump urged them to fight.
Trump said that they were not going to hurt him. The mob called for former Vice President Mike Pence to be hung, for lawmakers to be dragged through the streets, and for police officers to be attacked.
Solomon Wisenberg, a former deputy independent counsel under Ken Starr, called Hutchinson's account a "smoking gun" that makes a case for Trump's criminal culpability on seditious conspiracy charges.
According to testimony before the panel, nearly every official in the White House told Trump that he had lost the election. His claims of election fraud were all found to be false.
McQuade said that a concept of willful blindness could be used against Trump. She said that a person cannot ignore the probability that a fact is true if he wishes it weren't true.
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