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Deepa Shivaram

The Jan. 6 committee says the Trump campaign ripped off donors. But was it illegal?

A clip of former President Donald Trump is played during a hearing of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on Monday. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol is calling it "the Big Rip Off."

It says the Trump campaign took $250 million in donations from supporters that it said would go to an election defense fund to pay for legal fees to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. But the fund was never actually created, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., one of the committee members, said Monday in the panel's second public hearing.

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