Pat Cipollone says Trump wanted voting machines to be seized | USA TODAY

White House lawyer Pat Cipollone said he felt former President Trump should have conceded when no evidence of election fraud was found.

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Former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said he though the process for deciding the 2020 election had ended by mid-December, just after the Electoral College met to cast formal votes for president.

“Did I believe she should concede the election at a point in time?” Cipollone asked the Jan. 6 committee in a videotaped interview. “Yes I did.”

He pointed to comments from then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Dec. 15, 2020, saying that the process had already played out, and added, “That would be in line with my thinking on these things.”

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