Trump announces he will run for president in 2024 at his Mar-a-Lago estate
Trump announces he will run for president in 2024 at his Mar-a-Lago estateREUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

During the weeks after the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump and aides drafted a memo which called for the firing of staffers who didn't believe massive fraud had occurred.

The document reportedly called for the termination of any employee who did not share Trump's view that he had been cheated out of a second term, a transcript released by the Jan. 6 committee detailed.

The handwritten memo was drafted in early December 2020, weeks after Trump was defeated by President Joe Biden, according to the Washington Examiner.

It was created after Trump found out that his Attorney General William Barr had said there was no evidence of massive fraud involved in the presidential election.

Trump ordered the memo written on December 1 after he met with Barr in the Oval Office, the committee transcript said.

The memo was allegedly written by Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows. It was passed to aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Hutchinson told the committee that she was ordered to give the document to White House counsel Pat Cipollone’s office to receive the permission to send it to administration staffers.

She testified that Cipollone’s reply was “G-d, no.”

But Cipollone told the committee that he did not recall that conversation with Hutchinson and that the memo was never sent to staffers.

“I don’t have any recollection of this. And by the way, I wasn’t fired,” he said.