The Republican National Committee knew that then-President Donald Trump’s claims about the election were false but continued to raise money off them anyway, the Jan. 6 report said.

Trump and his campaign raised $250 million after the November 2020 presidential election with incendiary language about trying to “steal” the election, the report says.

The report also says that members of the RNC knew Trump’s claims about winning the election were false but that “they walked as close to the line as they dared” and made minor changes mainly to insulate it from legal exposure.

RNC lawyers instructed that messages shouldn’t say “steal the election” but were to use “try to steal the election" instead, the report says. Similar moves were made to rely on insinuation, it says, with phrases changed to such language as “Only LEGAL ballots must be counted and verified,” according to the report.

“RNC leadership knew that President Trump was lying to the American people. Yet, they did nothing to publicly distance themselves from his efforts to overturn the election,” the committee wrote. “The RNC’s response was merely to tinker around the edges of the fundraising copy.”

The report also says an RNC staffer in his 20s, Ethan Katz, was confused about the messaging.

Katz “rose to ask a question: How were staffers supposed to tell voters that the Trump Campaign wanted to keep counting votes in Arizona but stop counting votes in other States (like Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan)?” the report reads.

The committee said Ivanka Trump grew visibly frustrated on Jan. 6 as she repeatedly tried to be a calming influence on her father, repeatedly encouraging him to tell his supporters to back down.

The committee says Ivanka Trump told them that she eventually retreated to the office of her husband, Jared Kushner, "because she needed to 'regroup' and collect herself."

Several witnesses backed her account, describing her as appearing "[v]isibly upset" after having spoken with her father, as though she had just had a "tough conversation," according to the committee.

As it was tasked to do, the committee issued a number of recommendations in its report to both Congress and federal agencies. It called for reforms to the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to make it clear that the vice president does not have the authority to unilaterally reject electoral votes, an update that is already in the works. Congress will pass such a recommendation this week as part of its omnibus spending package.

The panel also urged congressional committees to examine whether to create a “formal mechanism” to evaluate whether to bar Trump and others identified in the report from holding future office under the 14th Amendment. 

In addition, the Jan. 6 committee recommended that federal agencies undertake a “whole of government strategy” to root out and combat violent extremism, including white nationalists. And it urged law enforcement to designate future certifications of presidential elections as a “national special security event.” That would require greater planning, coordination and security for future Jan. 6 certification events at the Capitol.

Lawyer John Eastman reached out to then-President Donald Trump the day he began drafting a memo arguing that the vice president could overturn the 2020 election results — and heard back immediately, according to the report.

On Dec. 23, 2020, in an email to Trump’s assistant, Molly Michael, Eastman said: “Is the President available for a very quick call today at some point? Just want to update him on our overall strategic thinking.”

Five minutes later, Eastman got a phone call from the White House switchboard, the report says. The conversation lasted 23 minutes.

The two-page memo Eastman drafted Dec. 23 was the first of two, and it summarized a way to ensure that “President Trump is re-elected,” the report says, adding, "From the start, President Trump was looped in on Eastman’s proposal."

Although the committee had previously said Rudy Giuliani spoke to both the president and a group of Republican lawmakers Jan. 6, the report reveals just how close to each other those calls occurred.

The committee says Giuliani "frantically called" the White House as soon as Trump posted a video on Twitter urging supporters to go home (hours after the riot began). "Failing to get through he called back, once every minute, 4:17 p.m., 4:18 p.m., 4:19 p.m., 4:20 p.m.," the report said. At 4:21, the report said, Giuliani eventually reached chief of staff Mark Meadows and then, finally, after several more calls to the White House, Trump.

According to the committee, after Giuliani and Trump spoke for around 12 minutes, Giuliani called a group of GOP lawmakers — some of whom he connected with.

Then, at 8:39 p.m., Trump and Giuliani spoke again for around nine minutes.

The Secret Service knew violence was possible at the Jan. 6 rally, the report concluded.

“The Committee has reviewed hundreds of thousands of new Secret Service documents, including many demonstrating that the Secret Service had been informed of potential violence at the Capitol before the Ellipse rally on January 6th,” its authors wrote. “These documents were critical to our understanding of what the Secret Service and White House knew about the threat to the Capitol on January 6th.”

The committee previously disclosed that the Secret Service knew of threats of violence by Trump supporters at the Jan. 6 rally but didn't warn Capitol Police about them until Jan. 5.

Then-President Donald Trump and his inner circle made at least 200 attempts to pressure lawmakers or other officials to overturn state electors, the Jan. 6 committee report says.

There were 68 meetings, phone calls or texts aimed at state or local officials; 18 public remarks targeting them; and 125 social media posts, the committee says.

Trump’s campaign tried to contact almost 200 lawmakers about overturning results, and some of the messages read “on behalf of the president,” the report says. Around 300 lawmakers from battleground states also reportedly participated in a Jan. 2 briefing with Trump, it says.

Perhaps the most famous of Trump’s efforts to pressure local officials was his call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he said, “I just want to find 11,780 votes.”

Trump tried to speak with Raffensperger by phone 18 times, the report says.

Raffensperger had avoided taking his calls, but they spoke on Jan. 2, 2021, it says.

The Jan. 6 committee revealed more details about what it says was a robust, organized effort to assemble and deliver a bogus slate of electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence ahead of Jan. 6.

The committee said a little-known Trump campaign operative named Michael Roman was "tapped for a major operational role in the fake elector effort" led by Trump-aligned lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Rudy Giuliani. According to the report, Roman was tapped to lead an "Electors Whip Operation" to shore up fake electors for the list the committee previously said the Trump campaign would try to deliver to Pence.

Politico previously reported that Roman was the one to ultimately deliver the false slates to Capitol Hill, although the documents never reached Pence himself.

The so-called fake elector plot is a key part of the Justice Department's Jan. 6 investigation.

Former Attorney General William Barr referred to staff members President Donald Trump brought on after the November election as the “clown car,” the Jan. 6 committee report released Thursday says.

The committee wrote that Trump’s campaign team had told him that he had lost the 2020 presidential election and that there was no evidence of significant fraud.

“When his campaign staff wouldn’t tell him what he wanted to hear, President Trump replaced them with what Barr described as a ‘clown car’ of individuals willing to promote various conspiracy theories,” the committee wrote in the report.

The report also says that Trump was told there was no evidence of fraud that would have changed the result of the election and that he ignored the fact.

The committee wrote: “President Trump’s decision to declare victory falsely on election night and, unlawfully, to call for the vote counting to stop, was not a spontaneous decision. It was premeditated.”