![]() ![]() ![]() “Wherever you live in the United States, there’s probably a local government executive-a mayor or a county commissioner. Rosen, the Acting Attorney General, with a lawyer who he believed would inappropriately put the full weight of the Justice Department behind the effort to overturn the election. “And when these and other efforts failed, Donald Trump sought to replace Mr. “He wanted the Justice Department to help legitimize his lies to baselessly call the election corrupt to appoint a special counsel to investigate alleged election fraud to send a letter to six state legislatures urging them to consider altering the election results. “But Donald Trump didn’t just want the Justice Department to investigate. And we will show that Trump’s demands that the Department investigate baseless claims of election fraud continued into January 2021. Trump’s effort to misuse the Justice Department as part of his plan to hold onto power. Together, these public servants resisted Mr. ![]() We’ll hear from other senior Justice Department officials also. Trump appointed to run the Justice Department after Attorney General Barr resigned. “Today, we will hear from Jeffrey Rosen, the person Mr. Trump wanted the Justice Department to investigate-and that Mr. We heard from Attorney General Bill Barr tell the story and the Committee about the baseless claims Mr. “Today, we’ll tell the story of how the pressure campaign also targeted the federal agency charged with enforcement of our laws: the Department of Justice. “In our previous hearings, the Select Committee showed that then President Trump applied pressure at every level of government-from local election workers up to his own Vice President-hoping public servants would give in to that pressure and help him steal an election he actually lost. ![]()
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