January 12, 2021
‘Many People Are Seeing Different Facts’: Carnegie Mellon Official’s Emails on Election Spark Outcry
Skinner, who served on President Trump’s transition team and worked in his administration in the State Department, sent this email and others just one day after a violent mob broke into the U.S. Capitol, spurred on by Trump and right-wing provocateurs falsely alleging election fraud. Her messages — sent to, by some estimates, at least 100 colleagues — at times appeared to express sympathy to those who supported these ideas.