This is how former Attorney General William Barr testified under oath before the Congressional Hearings,
“I had 3 discussions with the President that I can recall. One was on November 23rd, one was on December 1st, and one was on December 14, 2022 and I had been there to present the give and take of those discussions and in that context I made it clear that I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which I told him was bullshit. You know I didn’t want to be a part of it and that’s one of the reasons that went into me deciding to leave when I did. I observed I think it was on December 1st that you know you can’t live in a world where the incumbent administration stays in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence that the election, that there was fraud in the election.”
As a result of such testimony by Barr, Chairman Bennie Thompson, of the Select Committee of the US House of Representatives said this in his opening statement,
“Bill Barr on election day 2020, was the Attorney General of the United States, the top law enforcement official in the country, telling the President exactly what he thought about claims of a stolen election. Donald Trump had his days in court, to challenge the results. He was within his rights to seek those judgments. In the United States law abiding citizens have those tools for pursuing justice. He lost in the courts just as he did at the ballot box. And in this country that is the end of the line. But for Donald Trump that was only the beginning of what became a sprawling multi-step conspiracy aimed at overturning the presidential election, aimed at throwing out the votes of millions of Americans. Your votes. Your voice in our democracy and replacing the will of the American people with his will to remain in power after his term ended. Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy and ultimately Donald Trump the president of the United States spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the Constitution to march down the Capitol and subvert American democracy. Any legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding; conspiracy to defraud the United States boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup. A brazen attempt, as one rioter put it, shortly after January 6th to overthrow the government. The violence was no accident. It represents Trump’s last stand; a most desperate attempt to halt the transfer of power.”
I think that is a pretty reasonable interpretation of those events based on testimony of people like Bill Barr and others.