Then-U.S. 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.
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.
The notes of the Dec. 27 call, released Friday by the House Oversight Committee, underscore the lengths to whichwent 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.
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 pro-“These handwritten notes show that Presidentdirectly 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.
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.In this Saturday, July 24, 2021, file photo former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks on a variety of topics to supporters at a Turning Point Action gathering in Phoenix.
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