Jason Miller, a senior campaign adviser for Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that former President Trump listened to the advise of drunk Rudy Giuliani over his aides and prematurely declared victory on election night.
Miller and former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien testified that they urged Trump not to declare victory that night since there were millions of outstanding mail-in ballots left to be counted across the country. But Giuliani got into Trump’s ear and told him to declare himself the winner of the election.
“There were suggestions by I believe it was Mayor Giuliani to go and declare victory and say that we won it outright,” Miller said in a clip of his closed-door deposition shared at the committee’s public hearing on Monday.
“I think the mayor was definitely intoxicated, but I do not know his level of toxic intoxication when he spoke with the president, for example,” Miller added.
Trump declared victory early on the morning of November 4 and vowed to take his case directly to the Supreme Court because “we want all voting to stop. We don’t want them to find any ballots at 4 o’clock in the morning and add them to the list.”
The Trump campaign, led by Giuliani filed scores of lawsuits, tried to convince state legislatures to take action, organized protests and held hearings. They lost all of their nearly 60 cases.
