Jan. 6 panel set to dig into Trump's DOJ meddling
Donald Trump’s bid to seize a second term that he didn’t win ran into an early obstacle: The Justice Department kept debunking his false claims of fraud. On Thursday, the Jan. 6 select committee hopes to reveal new information about that chapter of the 2020 election.
Rather than accepting his advisers’ evidence that no widespread fraud affected the outcome, Trump demanded that DOJ legitimize his subversion — and when it didn’t, he developed a plan to replace its leadership with more pliable officials. At its fifth public hearing, focused on Trump’s deployment of DOJ, the select panel also intends to show how some of his allies counted on his sweeping presidential pardon power to insulate them from potential criminal consequences.
Aiding the select committee will be the top three leaders at DOJ during Trump’s final chaotic weeks in office: former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, his deputy Richard Donoghue, and former Office of Legal Counsel Chief Steven Engel. All three helped thwart Trump’s designs for DOJ by threatening a mass resignation.
“[D]uring my tenure, we appointed no special prosecutors; sent no letters to States or State legislators disputing the election outcome; and made no public statements saying the election was corrupt and should be overturned," Rosen says in his written statement to the select panel obtained by POLITICO. "We initiated no Supreme Court actions, nor filed or joined any other lawsuits, calling into question the legitimacy of our election and institutions
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