Reuters
By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON(Reuters) -Top advisers to then-President Trump told him that his claims of widespread election fraud were not legitimate and would not reverse his election loss, according to video testimony aired on Monday by the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. The Democratic-led House of Representatives panel made the case that Trump decided to claim that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him even though many of his staffers said that Democrat Joe Biden had won more votes. “He and his closest advisors knew th…