4 takeaways from the second Jan. 6 committee hearing

Staff writer

Updated June 13, 2022 at 2:35 p.m. EDT|Published June 13, 2022 at 1:32 p.m. EDT

In recorded testimony played on June 13, former attorney general William P. Barr said he was unimpressed with the Dinesh D’Souza film “2000 Mules." (Video: The Washington Post)

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The Jan. 6 committee used its second hearing to lay out evidence that Donald Trump must have known better: that he was repeatedly informed that his claims of widespread voter fraud were bogus and that he had lost the 2020 election — and he pressed forward in trying to overturn the result regardless.

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