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Politics
Sarah K Burris

Trump laughed at Powell's "crazy" claims

Among the items included in the full report published by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress was testimony from top White House aide Hope Hicks, who had returned to the White House in the final year of Donald Trump's presidency.

In the first chapter, the report discusses the Nov. 19 press conference with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis at the Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters in Washington. Powell told the press that there was a "massive influence of communist money through Venezuela, Cuba, and likely China in the interference with our elections here in the United States."

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