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demmiblue

(36,841 posts)
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 07:12 PM Jul 2021

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.

Donoghue’s 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 Trump’s 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 Trump’s presidency that the agency would not seek to invoke executive privilege if they are asked about their contacts with the president during that period.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-rosen-election-calls/2021/07/28/43106ab6-efd6-11eb-bf80-e3877d9c5f06_story.html




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As Trump pushed for probes of 2020 election, he called acting AG Rosen almost daily (Original Post) demmiblue Jul 2021 OP
Should be embarrassing at least. JohnnyRingo Jul 2021 #1
reTHUGS don't do shame but we could get some indictments out of it! abqtommy Jul 2021 #2
Shame and Republicans? Sherman A1 Jul 2021 #3
Remember when the Rethugs shit their pants over Clinton meeting AG Lynch on tarmac? Champp Jul 2021 #4

Champp

(2,114 posts)
4. Remember when the Rethugs shit their pants over Clinton meeting AG Lynch on tarmac?
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 07:46 AM
Jul 2021

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.

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