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Pat Cipollone (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

If your question is did I believe we should concede the election at a point in time, yes, I did.

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— Pat Cipollone, former White House counsel, testifying during a January 6th Committee deposition as to whether he thought Donald Trump should have conceded the 2020 presidential election. Cipollone also noted that Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, said that Trump would “eventually agree to a graceful exit” from the presidency. “[T]hat is a statement and a sentiment that I heard from [him],” he testified.

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Donald Trump, Election 2020, Government, January 6th Committee, Mark Meadows, Pat Cipollone, Quote of the Day