As Trump pushed for probes of 2020 election, he called acting AG Rosen almost daily
Source: WaPo
The personal pressure campaign, which has not been previously reported, involved repeated phone calls to acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen in which Trump raised various allegations he had heard about and asked what the Justice Department was doing about the issue. The people familiar with the conversations spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive legal and political issues that are not yet public.
Rosen told few people about the phone calls, even in his inner circle. But there are notes of some of the calls that were written by a top aide to Rosen, Richard Donoghue, who was present for some of the conversations, these people said.
Donoghues notes could be turned over to Congress in a matter of days, they added, if Trump does not file papers in court seeking to block such a handover. In addition, both Rosen and Donoghue could be questioned about the conversations by congressional committees examining Trumps actions in the days after the election.
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The Justice Department recently notified Rosen, Donoghue and others who were serving there during the end of Trumps presidency that the agency would not seek to invoke executive privilege if they are asked about their contacts with the president during that period.
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JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)At best it could shame the entire entourage from McConnell on down.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Im sorry, I just dont understand how the two go together.
Champp
(2,114 posts)Rethugs totally flipped because Clinton chatted with Lynch for a few minutes.
But this? Crickets. It's OK now, they figure, because the TFG is a skuzzbucket Republican himself.
Epic Rethug hypocrisy. Disgusting.