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Acting attorney trumps subvert election10/2/2023 The Justice Department earlier this week authorized six witnesses to appear before the panel, citing the public interest in the “extraordinary events” of those final weeks. She said the committee had begun scheduling interviews with witnesses. “These handwritten notes show that President Trump directly instructed our nation’s top law enforcement agency to take steps to overturn a free and fair election in the final days of his presidency,” committee chairman Representative Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, said in a statement. Trump also urged department officials to investigate “legitimate complaints” of “electioneering fraud”. “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the R. “Don’t expect you to do that,” Trump said. “Understand that the DOJ can’t + won’t snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election,” then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen is quoted as telling the former president, according to notes ( PDF) taken by Richard Donoghue, a senior Justice Department official who was on the December 27 call. The notes of the December 27 call, released Friday by the House Oversight Committee, underscore the lengths to which Trump went to try to overturn the results of the election and to elicit the support of law enforcement officials and other government leaders in that effort.Įmails released last month show that Trump and his allies in the last weeks of his presidency pressured the Justice Department to investigate unsubstantiated claims of widespread 2020 election fraud, and the department’s inspector general is looking into whether department officials tried to subvert the results. President Donald Trump urged senior US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to declare the 2020 election results “corrupt” in a December phone call, according to handwritten notes from one of the participants in the conversation.
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