Donald Trump’s former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann, on Monday, told the House Select Committee that he did not believe in the Dominion voting conspiracy, according to which the  electronic voting hardware and software company switched votes. 

“I thought the Dominion stuff was … I never saw any evidence whatsoever to sustain those allegations,” Herschmann said in his taped deposition. 

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“His view was shared by many of the Trump team whom we interviewed,” Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney said. She then went on to quote former Attorney General Bill Barr, who had called the Dominion accusations “complete nonsense.”

What is the Dominion Voting conspiracy?

As per the conspiracy, Dominion Voting Systems, the company that provided election equipment in the US 2020 race, switched the votes for Donald Trump and put in Joe Biden’s pocket. 

Trump ally lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell and several others claimed that Dominion took part in a plot to rig the 2020 election.

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The company has sued Giuliani, Powell amongst others for billions of dollars. 

In September last year, a memo presented by Dominion’s security director Eric Coomer proved that Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign knew accusations against the company were false within weeks of the election.

“The memo produced by the Trump campaign shows that, at least internally, the Trump campaign found there was no evidence to support the conspiracy theories regarding Dominion,” Coomer’s attorneys wrote in the court filings, further arguing that the campaign “continued to allow its agents … to advance debunked conspiracy theories and defame” Coomer, “apparently without providing them with their own research debunking those theories,” a court document read. 

Meanwhile, campaign manager Bill Stepien and other top aides testified Monday at the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack that they believed the 2020 presidential race was too close to call on Election Night, but Trump nevertheless declared himself the winner.

Stepien abruptly backed out of appearing live Monday at the hearing, because his wife went into labor. But the panel marched ahead after a morning scramble, showing previously recorded testimony from the ex-campaign manager and others close to the president, including Ivanka Trump.

“My belief, my recommendation was to say that votes were still being counted, it’s too early to tell, too early to call the race.” Stepien said in the recorded testimony.