Peter Baker: "This is a pattern for Trump. He has done this every step of the way through his career, long before politics... The Apprentice lost an Emmy to The Amazing Race, he claimed that the Emmy contest was rigged."

The Democracy on Trial documentary has some pretty incriminating moments for Trump. Bill Barr: "I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was bull (bleep)." 🧵

Liz Cheney: "Over multiple months, Donald Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power."

Trump: "I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break."

Bill Stepien (on claming victory on election night): "It was far too early to be making any calls like that. Ballots were still being counted. Ballots were still going to be counted for days, and it was far too early to be making any proclamation like that."

'The president ignores the sound advice that he's getting from Bill Stepien, from the political professionals around him, and he's listening to one voice that is telling him something different, and that's Giuliani saying, "You should go out there and declare victory." '

Zoe Lofgren: "As early as April 2020, Mr. Trump claimed that the only way he could lose an election would be as a result of fraud." Trump: "The only way we're gonna lose this election is if the election is rigged."

Trump claming election fraud in 2016 Laura Ingraham: "You have tweeted that Senator Ted Cruz stole the Iowa election." Donald Trump: "Everything about it was disgraceful. It was a fraud as far as I was concerned."

Alyssa Farah: "I remember maybe a week after the election was called, I popped into the Oval just to like give the president the headlines and see how he was doing, and he was looking at the TV and he said, "Can you believe I lost to this effing guy?" "

Tim Heaphy: "His campaign team, and this included his son-in-law Jared Kushner, went to him after the election was declared. And they didn't just rebut the claims of voter fraud. they explained to him their analysis of why he lost. They showed him the numbers state by state in the swing states."

Kristen Welker: "Were you calling the shots?" Donald Trump: "Oh sure... It was my decision."

Gabriel Sterling: "Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed."

Adam Schiff: "Donald Trump claims that there was massive voter fraud in Georgia. Mr. Sterling, that was just plain false, wasn't it?" Gabriel Sterling: "Yes, sir."

Peter Navarro: "Georgia, of the six states I looked at, is a cesspool." Sidney Powell: "Georgia's probably going to be the first state I'm going to blow up and the secretary of state need to go with it."

"Keep opposing the audit, and somebody in your family is going to have a very unfortunate incident." "Please pray. We plan for the death of you and your family every day. I'm sorry." "You and your family will be killed very slowly." Gabriel Sterling: "It wasn't fun, I can tell you that."

"Y'all oughta blow your (bleep) brains out you piece of (bleep)." Narrator: "The threats poured into the voicemails of election officials." "We're coming after you and every mother (bleep) with our Second Amendment. (Bleep) enemy communist (bleep) sucker, you will be served lead."

Gabriel Sterling: "Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language. This has to stop."

Rusty Bowers: "Have, have I gone to another planet? I I'm not gonna do that! I mean, I wanted him to win, okay, so what? I'm not gonna cheat, I'm not gonna cheat to win... You're asking me to break my oath. I swore an oath. I'm not gonna break it, period."

Rusty Bowers: "I said, Well, if you're talking this, I gotta have the proof. I said, Rudy, do you have the names of the dead people who voted?"

Rusty Bowers: "There was a row of people and Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, I recognized them... I said, ‘Did you bring it?’ And he looked, turned to Jenna Ellis, and he says, ‘Do you have the proof?’ And she said, ‘Yeah.’ ‘Well, can we see it?’ She leans over and fumbles through her briefcase and says, ‘Oh no, I don't have it here. Must be at the hotel room.’ Adam Schiff: “This meeting or at any other later time, did anyone provide you with evidence of election fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of the presidential election in Arizona?” Rusty Bowers: “No one provided me, ever, such evidence.”

Rusty Bowers: "[Rudy] Giuliani was kind of frustrated with us all and he said, ‘You know we've got a lot of theories, we just don't have the evidence.' "

Rusty Bowers: "For someone to ask me to deny my oath and just let the courts figure it out, or let somebody else punt it to someone else, is not something I will do."

Brad Raffensperger: "Our job was to give [Trump] the true data, which I did. The former president was pushing to see if he could somehow, you know, it would move me somewhere, someplace. Because I think that's been an effective strategy for him over his business career and political career. That people tended to buckle instead of stand firm on their principles."

Gabriel Sterling: “Trump didn't understand, it just doesn't click, didn't click with him that someone wouldn't just give in. It just did not occur to him that there was some higher level of loyalty to the law and the Constitution.”

Brad Raffensperger: "What I knew is that we didn't have any votes to find. We continued to look, we investigated... there were no votes to find."

Marc Harris: "President Trump's close advisors, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, Eric Herschmann, advisor to the president, and others who were in that room who were saying to this group, 'What evidence do you even have that there was fraud in the election?' " Pat Cipollone: "We're asking one simple question, 'where's the evidence?' "

Eric Herschmann: "What they were proposing, I thought was nuts. [General Michael] Flynn screamed at me that I was a quitter and everything, kept on standing up and turning around and screaming at me. And at a certain point, I had it with him. So I yelled back, 'better sit your effing ass back down.' "

Hannah Moldavian: "[Jeff Rosen and Richard Donoghue] are folks who were appointed by Donald Trump.They are aligned with him politically." Richard Donoghue: "That's not what I'm asking you to do. What I'm just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen."

Ken White: "[Trump] is saying, ‘Don't care about evidence, don't care about facts, just say this, and then I'm going to be able to use that to give people political cover to do what I want them to do, which is to overturn the vote.' " Robert Ray (Former Trump Attorney): "I think that's a very unfortunate statement on the, on the president's part."

Eric Herschmann: "Jeff Clark was proposing that, Jeff Rosen be replaced by Jeff Clark. And I thought the proposal was asinine… When he finished discussing what he planned on doing, I said… 'Congratulations, you just admitted your first step or act you take as attorney general would be committing a felony and violating Rule 6(e).' "

Richard Donoghue: "I said, ‘Mr. President, within 24, 48, 72 hours, you could have hundreds and hundreds of resignations of the leadership of your entire Justice Department because of your actions.' "

Jonathan Karl: "Trump told Pence, 'You have a choice. You can either be a patriot or you can be a pussy.' Patriot means turn the election over to me. Being a pussy means being afraid to use your power."

Judge J. Michael Luttig: "John Eastman was one of my law clerks, perhaps 20, 25 years ago. I was greatly concerned that John had given the advice that he had given."

Judge J. Michael Luttig: "Mr. Eastman said to the president that there was both legal as well as historical precedent for the vice president to overturn the election. This is Constitutional mischief. I would have laid my body across the road before I would have let the vice president overturn the 2020 election." Rep. Pete Aguilar: "Judge Luttig, you wrote that the efforts by President Trump to overturn the 2020 election were,’the most reckless, insidious, and calamitous failures in both legal and political judgement in American history.’ What did you mean by that?” Luttig: "Exactly what I said, Congressman."

Robert Costa: "Pence says to Trump, 'I'm going to do what I can, Mr. President, I want to help you out but I'm listening to my lawyers.' He turns to Greg Jacob, his advisors, and he says, 'They're telling me I can't do it. I can't do it, it's not constitutional, it's not legal.' Trump says, 'You can do it, listen to John [Eastman].' " Greg Jacob: "I raised the problem that Mr. Eastman's proposals would violate several provisions of the Electoral Count Act. Mr. Eastman acknowledged that that was the case."

Cassidy Hutchinson: "As Mr. Giuliani and I were walking to his vehicles that evening, he looked at me and said something to the effect of, 'Cass, are you excited for the 6th? It's going to be a great day…’ " "I found Mr. Meadows in his office, scrolling through his phone. I remember leaning against the doorway and saying, 'I just had an interesting conversation with Rudy, Mark. It sounds like we're going to go to the Capitol.' He didn't look up from his phone, and said something to the effect of, 'there's a lot going on, Cass, but I don't know, things might get real, real bad on January 6.' "

Tim Mulvey: "People were unwilling to pass through the magnetometers, presumably because they had, they were carrying contraband, weapons." Cassidy Hutchinson: "I overheard the president say something to the effect of 'You know, I don't effing care that they have weapons, they're not here to hurt me, take the effing mags away.' " Tim Mulvey: "There was awareness that there were weapons in that crowd, and that Trump didn't care because, as he put it, 'They're not here for me.' Which begs the question, well, who were they here for?"