Just before 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2020, then-President Donald Trump went
before a group of supporters at the White House and prematurely declared
victory over Joe Biden in an election he ultimately lost.

Today at 10 a.m., that moment — and the avalanche of lies about the
election that followed — will be front and center as the House committee
investigating the Jan. 6 attack (1) highlights the origins of the “Big
Lie” about the 2020 election, (2) shows how it spread and (3) attempts
to prove that in the weeks and months following Election Day, even as
Trump continued to falsely claim that he’d actually won, he privately
knew he’d lost — and that his public insistence otherwise led to the
insurrection.

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