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Trump threw lunch against wall after Barr dismissed election fraud claims, ex-aide testifies

President Trump threw his lunch against a wall in a fit of rage when Attorney General William Barr announced that the Justice Department had not found evidence of widespread election fraud in 2020, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified Tuesday.

Ms. Hutchinson described the scene in the White House dining room after Mr. Trump read a December 2020 Associated Press article in which Mr. Barr dismissed claims of election fraud.

“I noticed that the door was propped open and the valet was inside the dining room changing the table cloth off of the dining room table,” Ms.