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'Just Say That the Election Was Corrupt,' Trump Told DOJ in December
Trump led the conspiracy to overturn the election.
'Just Say That the Election Was Corrupt,' Trump Told DOJ in December
"It was a failed coup. Call it what it was. It didn't work! But they sure as hell tried."
KENNY STANCIL
CommonDreams.org, July 30, 2021
Additional evidence of former U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to invalidate and reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential race came to light on Friday when the New York Times, using newly obtained documents, reported that Trump pressured top Justice Department officials in late December to declare that "the election was corrupt" so that he and his GOP allies could overturn the results.
According to the Times:
The exchange unfolded during a phone call on December 27 in which Mr. Trump pressed the acting attorney general at the time, Jeffrey A. Rosen, and his deputy, Richard P. Donoghue, on voter fraud claims that the department had disproved. Mr. Donoghue warned that the department had no power to change the outcome of the election. Mr. Trump replied that he did not expect that, according to notes Mr. Donoghue took memorializing the conversation.
"Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me" and congressional Republican allies. That's how Donoghue, who took notes during the call, summarized Trump's response.
The DOJ provided Donoghue's notes to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which is investigating the Trump administration's far-reaching campaign to reverse Trump's loss last November.
In light of the new revelations, committee chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said in a statement that "these handwritten notes show that President Trump directly 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."
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/30/just-say-election-was-corrupt-trump-told-doj-december
Lock him up should be the least of a traitor’s problems.
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