ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump “recklessly” promoted lies about voter fraud at a ballot counting center in Atlanta despite being told at least four times his claims were false, according to the final report of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The document recounted that Trump’s top aide, Mark Meadows, lobbied state Sen. Marty Harbin to back a special legislative session to install pro-Trump electors after Joe Biden carried the state, writing in a text that “the state legislature can take over the electoral process.”
And the report highlights how Bill White, a GOP donor who heads the effort to forge a new city of Buckhead, messaged the then-president’s advisers to press Trump to criticize Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan after he refused to support calls to overturn the election.
