Last December, former President Trump spoke with senior Justice Department officials about the 2020 presidential election and told them to “just say the election is corrupt and leave the rest to me” and congressional Republicans, according to notes taken through acting Congressman at Attorney General Richard Donoghue.
Donoghue’s notes, released Friday through the Democratic-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, detail a Dec. 27, 2020, phone conversation with Trump, former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Donoghue. rigged, however, the former documented verbal message of the phone suggests that Rosen and Donoghue felt that the president had asked them to replace the election results.
Here is the applicable segment of Donoghue’s handwritten notes:
-DAG – we’ll see if there are more ballots in the Palestinian Authority than registered electorate – being able to determine it quickly, but perceiving that the DOJ can’t and doesn’t need to shake hands and replace the election result, it doesn’t look this way. -P: “Don’t expect you to do this Array just say the election was corrupt leave the rest to me and the members of Congress R. . “
The president also edited, “There’s a lot of time left. “
This exchange took place during a broader discussion on the effects of the election and imaginable progress, detailed in 8 pages of handwritten notes.
According to the notes, Rosen and Donoghue told the president, “We’re doing our job. Most of the data you get is fake. “They refuted his allegations of fraud, filing a report that claimed an “error rate of 68%, but the truth is that it has an error rate of 0. 0063%, less than 1 in 15K. “
Kindly to the memo detailing the December phone conversation, House Reform and Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney said her committee is seeking more interviews.
“These handwritten notes show that President Trump directly asked our country’s leading law enforcement firm to take steps to cancel free and fair elections in the final days of his presidency,” Maloney said in a statement. “The Committee has begun scheduling interviews with key witnesses to investigate the full extent of the former president’s corruption, and I will use all the equipment at my disposal so that all testimony is secured without delay. “
On a Saturday, Trump called space Democrats heading the House oversight committee “corrupt and highly partisan” and said they had “released documents, adding court documents related to the rigged 2020 election, which they dishonestly described as an attempt to nullify the election. . “
“In fact, it’s quite the opposite,” Trump said in part. “The documents were meant to protect the integrity and honesty of the election and the sanctity of our vote. The other American people need and ask that the president of the United States, their head of law enforcement in the country, join him in fighting for election integrity and in investigating attempts to undermine our nation. “
On the House Oversight Committee website, Maloney said the committee had written to the Justice Department in May requesting similar documents from Mr. “Mr. Trump to cancel the effects of the 2020 election. “In June, it released 229 pages of documents provided through the Justice Department that it said show “the extent of the senseless efforts of President Trump and his allies to interfere in the 2020 election. “
The committee has already requested transcribed interviews with Rosen, Donoghue, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, and Justice Department officials.
Maloney noted that the Justice Department had legal officials to give “unrestricted testimony” before Congress because the committee has “compelling legislative interests” in the “extraordinary events” surrounding President Trump’s conduct. “He also asserted that the Justice Department would not assert any Claim of Privilege in the testimony of officials.
Despite the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol via pro-Trump protesters shortly after Trump in Washington, the former president did not give up on his baseless claims that the election had been rigged or stolen. “the 2020 presidential election scam. “
“Whether it’s voting machines, minors, other deceased people, illegal aliens, ballots, voter fraud, mail-in ballots, mail delivery (or lack thereof!), mailboxes, other people who are paid to vote or other things, the 2020 presidential election is, in my mind, the crime of the century,” he said.