WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump urged senior Justice Department 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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“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,” Trump said at one point to then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, according to notes taken by Richard Donoghue, a senior Justice Department official who was on the call.
The Dec. 27 call took place just days after Barr had resigned, leaving Rosen in charge of the department during a turbulent final weeks of the administration that also included the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in which rioters stormed the building as Congress was certifying the election results.
“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 Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, said in a statement.
She said the committee had begun scheduling interviews with witnesses. 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.
I look forward to hearing the witnesses testimony including the testimony of all who spoke at the January 6 “stop the steal” event including Mr Trump.
no swamp there.
i am a former Trump supporter. I now realize that this man has serious problems. We are lucky that he is out of office. The more that comes out, the more disturbing it becomes. There has been no substantiation for any of his claims. The fact that he lost the election, seems to have unhinged him. And “no” I do not consider myself a Democrat. I am hoping that a sane candidate with good values will emerge for 2024.
AP should pay trump royalties, a good chunk of their reporting deals with destroying his reputation by any means necessary, that is a great source of income for the AP propaganda-entertainment complex
Trump shocked the filthy swamp by opposing them and they fought back against him and the American people. Our government is rotten to the core.
The stinking unelected beaurocRats hate Trump , hate Americans and cover up fraud and chicanery on Election night.
There was certainly fraud in the 2020 election. The only question is if the fraud was significant enough that resulted in Trumps defeat.
Well, the election WAS corrupt(ed).
In other news: Obama was in a meeting where he told.
Oops I forgot I’m not a democrat I don’t have to keep pointing to someone who’s no longer in public office and is mostly irrelevant in order to try to get people to not notice how my corrupt party is destroying the country
Pure hearsay
But it wasn’t a free and fair election. The workers were either threatened or paid off!