Report Reveals Donald Trump Tried To Pressure DOJ To Overturn 2020 Election
Donald Trump might be out of office but he’s not out of the hot seat.
A new report from the Senate Judiciary Committee details how Trump attempted to enlist the Justice Department to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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Apparently, Trump tried to pressure Justice Department officials to help him stay in poser after his loss to Joe Biden, but department leaders managed to get him to back down by threatening to resign.
Per the senate’s report,
“On January 22, 2021, the New York Times reported that Jeffrey Bossert Clark, the former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Division, sought to involve DOJ in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and plotted with then- President Trump to oust Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who reportedly refused Trump’s demands.1 On January 23, 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had urged DOJ to file a lawsuit in the Supreme Court seeking to invalidate President Biden’s victory.2 These reports followed Trump’s months-long effort to undermine the results of the election, which culminated in the violent insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
“The Senate Committee on the Judiciary immediately launched an investigation into Trump’s reported efforts to enlist DOJ in his election subversion scheme. On January 23, 2021, the Committee asked DOJ to produce documents related to these efforts.”
The 328 page report is based on documents, emails and testimony from former Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen, and former Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue.