Byrne’s involvement in efforts to annul the election was referenced this Tuesday during the committee hearing.
Former furniture industry executive joined attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, as well as former national security adviser Michael Flynn, at the Oval Office on Dec. 18, 2020, days after the col. certified electoral law that Joe Biden won the presidential election. While many of Trump’s legal advisers had accepted that he had lost the election, Byrne and others pushed for the idea that the president could use the National Guard to seize voting machines.
Access to Byrne’s oval office seemed to shake those employees who hoped to redirect Trump’s attention away from conspiracy theories.
“First, the Overstock person didn’t even know who this guy was,” former White House attorney Pat Cipollone said in a videotaped interview aired Tuesday during the hearing.
“I looked at him and said, ‘Who are you?’ Cipollone said he asked Byrne.