“Pure insanity,” then-acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue wrote in response to a last-ditch effort by Trump aides to get the DOJ to investigate outlandish election fraud claims
Former President Donald Trump stands before a crowd at the NCGOP state convention. | Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty ImagesTop Justice Department officials derisively dismissed a series of last-ditch efforts by then-President Donald Trump’s aides and emissaries to get DOJ lawyers and the FBI to investigate outlandish election fraud claims in the waning weeks of Trump’s presidency, newly-released emails show.
“Yes,” Rosen replied. “After this message, I was asked to have FBI meet with Brad Johnson, and I responded that Brad Johnson could call or walk into FBI’s Washington Field Office with any evidence he purports to have.” In another email, Meadows asked Rosen to have the acting Civil Division chief Jeffrey Clark “immediately” look into “allegations of signature match anomalies" in Fulton County, Ga.Donoghue replied: “At least it’s better than the last one, but that doesn’t say much.”
Moran said he told Olsen that Rosen was tied up in meetings at the White House, but Olsen later said he was on his way to Washington to see Rosen without any scheduled appointment. “I have only limited visibility into this, but it sounds like Rosen and the cause of justice won,” an aide to Donghue, Patrick Hovakimian, wrote on Jan. 3.“Still at WH. But that is correct,” Office of Legal Counsel head Steven Engel wrote back that evening.
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