"Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen."
-- Trump to acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue, 12/27/20

"We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States."
-- resolution passed by Texas GOP

"I don't know whether President Trump ever said that, because he never said that to me."
-- Senatorial candidate Herschel Walker, asked about Trump's false claim that the 2020 election was stolen

"We've got lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence."
-- Rudy Giuliani, urging AZ state Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers (R) to help overturn 2020 election results

"My vote to remain a no isn't based on any evidence, it's not based on any facts, it's only based on my gut feeling and my own intuition, and that's all I need."
-- Couy Griffin, Otero NM County Coommissioner, on refusing to certify results of June 7th primary despite lack of evidence of voting fraud

"Get a great f***ing criminal-defense lawywer. You're going to need it."
-- WH attorney Eric Herschmann, to Trump lawyer John Eastman, who was advising Trump on how to overturn the election

"I've decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works."
-- Eastman email to Rudy Giuliani, a few days later

146
-- number of time Eastman invoked the Fifth Amendment before 1/6 committee

"For the radical left, politics has become their religion. It has warped their sense of right and wrong. They don't have a sense of right and wrong, true and false, good and evil."
-- Trump, on Friday

"Mike Pence had a chance to be great. He had a chance to be, frankly, historic. But just like Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people, he did not have the courage to act."
-- Trump yesterday, on his VP refusing to overturn the 2020 election

"In case you forgot the sham January 6th committee hearings are purely for TV ratings, Pelosi let The Communist News Network build a full TV set where Abraham Lincoln's desk once stood."
-- Rep. Greg Steube, mistaking CNN's digital background screen for the actual National Statuary Hall

"The Jan 6 committee is totally irrelevant. The ratings stink."
-- Steve Bannon

"It tells you a lot about the priorities of our ruling class that the rest of us are getting yet another lecture about January 6th... from our moral inferiors, no less."
-- Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Jan 6 hearings