Trump pressured top Justice Department officials to publicly call the 2020 election “illegal” and “corrupt” and “leave the rest to me,” according to handwritten notes released by a House committee
A former top official at the Justice Department wrote that Donald Trump told him to"leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen."
It was a reference to the GOP lawmakers whom Trump had enlisted to object to the Electoral College certification of Biden’s victory during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, when a mob of Trump’s supporters violently stormed the Capitol in an attempt to halt the proceedings. Donoghue and Rosen told Trump that “much of the info you’re getting is false,” adding: “Sir we have done dozens of investig., hundreds of interviews, major allegations are not supported by evid. developed.”
“The committee has begun scheduling interviews with key witnesses to investigate the full extent of the former president’s corruption, and I will exercise every tool at my disposal to ensure all witness testimony is secured without delay,” Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney said in a statement.
It was a stark departure from the Trump-era Justice Department, which routinely intervened on behalf of the former president’s aides and confidants to prevent them from appearing before Congress.
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