Documents released by the House Oversight Cmte. detail President Trump’s repeated efforts to pressure the Justice Dept. to pursue his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election and to help overturn President Biden’s victory.
WASHINGTON — Documents released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee detail then-President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to pressure the Department of Justice to pursue his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election and help overturn Joe Biden’s victory.illustrate the behind-the-scenes efforts Trump's White House took to pressure federal officials while he simultaneously pushed the same unsubstantiated claims on Twitter.
The 54-page brief called on the Supreme Court to declare that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada had administered the 2020 presidential election in violation of the Electors Clause and the 14th Amendment, claiming that the states changed election rules without legislative action. All six were swing states that Trump lost.
The messages are also riddled with conspiracy theories and Oversight Committee staff cited at least five instances when then-chief of staff Mark Meadows inquired about rumors that were circulating on the internet at the time but for which there was no supporting evidence. Trump’s assistant sent an email to Rosen with the subject line “From POTUS” and attached materials that listed “talking points” about a “cover-up of voting crimes” in Michigan, a state that Trump lost by more than 154,000 votes.
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