Donald Trump told then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy, Pat Philbin, that they were complicit in a “coup” for not backing his false claims of systematic voter fraud, Cipollone told the House committee.

The president leveled that accusation in a meeting in which Cipollone and Philbin expressed their opposition to naming Jeffrey Clark, an environmental lawyer at the Justice Department, as the acting attorney general. #january6threport #jan6report #jan6thtranscripts #patcipollone

Pat Cipollone told the House committee that, after Jan. 6, 2021, he was concerned that Trump would issue a broad pardon for people involved in the attack on the Capitol, for members of Congress and even for himself. #january6threport #jan6report #january6thtranscripts #jan6thtranscripts #patcipollone