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    Trump team didn't have the evidence and 4 other takeaways from the Jan. 6 hearing

    There were a number of eye-opening findings in the Jan. 6 committee's fourth hearing that showed the depth and breadth of Trump and his allies' pressure on local and state officials.
    by Domenico Montanaro Jun 21, 2022 5 minutes
    (L-R) Rusty Bowers, Arizona House Speaker; Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State; and Gabriel Sterling, Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer, appear for testimony during the fourth hearing.

    Former President Donald Trump's team not only pressured GOP state officials to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election he lost, but they knew there was no authority to do so, a key Republican witness said in testimony Tuesday.

    "We've got lots of theories, but we just don't have the evidence," Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, according to Bowers, who testified to that Tuesday under oath before the Jan. 6 committee.

    That was one of the eye-opening findings of the panel's fourth hearing that showed the depth and breadth of Trump and his allies' pressure on local and state officials. But there was more.

    Here are five takeaways from the hearing:

    1. Trump's team knew it had no evidence or authority for its schemes

    Bowers, a Republican who voted by replacing the slate of popularly elected Joe Biden electors with fake Trump ones.

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