Ex-AG Repeatedly REFUSE to Say Whether Trump Asked Him to Overturn Election Under Oath [View all]

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By Tommy Christopher May 12th, 2021, 12:36 pm

Former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen repeatedly refused to say whether then-President Donald Trump asked him to assist in overturning the 2020election results, but moments later was willing to rule out other subjects from his private discussions with Trump.

At Wednesday’s House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Democratic Virginia Congressman Gerry Connolly pressed Rosen about his communications with Trump prior to the insurrection.

“Prior to January 6th, were you asked or instructed by President Trump to take any action at the Department to advance election fraud claims or to seek to overturn any part of the 2020 election results?” Connolly asked.

“Well congressman, as I just alluded to in your prior question, I can tell you what the actions of the department were,” Rosen said as Connolly objected, and added that he could not testify “about private conversations with the president one way or the other.”

“We had an unprecedented insurrection that led to seven deaths. Five years and two suicides, and you are saying that this is a privileged communication?” Connolly said.

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