Worth noting: DOJ officials testified Thursday that Clark wanted former President Trump to install him as attorney general with a plan they called "nuts" and a "murder-suicide pact."
"He said, 'People tell me I should just get rid of both of you.Former Acting Attorney General Testifies About Trump’s Efforts to Subvert Election. Posts: 20090 From: Registered: Apr 2009: posted Aug11:33 AM. "The president was very agitated by the acting attorney general's response," former acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue said. Topic: Former Acting Attorney General Testifies About Trump’s Efforts to Subvert Election: teasel Knowflake.Trump subvert the results of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the interviews. There was no factual basis or legal authority to seize machines, he noted. Rosen, who was acting attorney general during the Trump administration, has told the Justice Department watchdog and Congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former President Donald J.What they're saying: "We had seen nothing improper with regard to the voting machines, and I told him that the real experts had briefed us, that they had looked at it and that there was nothing wrong with the voting machines," former Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen told the panel. After senior officials refused to budge, he threatened to remove them from their positions.
Why it matters: Trump had repeatedly asked the DOJ to investigate election conspiracy theories, using various avenues to pressure them into doing his bidding. 6 select committee's fifth hearing on Thursday. The committee displayed handwritten notes Donoghue took during the conversation with Trump.Īt one point, according to the notes, Rosen told Trump that "the DOJ can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election.Former President Trump asked the Justice Department to seize voting machines from state governments as part of his campaign to overturn the 2020 election, former senior DOJ officials testified at the Jan. President, is an example of what people are telling you that is not true," Donoghue recalled telling Trump. Donoghue said that a hand recount showed there was one error in more than 15,000 votes cast.ĭonoghue said he informed the president of the 0.0063% error rate. Rosen, who was acting attorney general during the Trump administration, has told the Justice Department watchdog and Congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former President Donald J.
(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)ĭonoghue said that as Trump went through an "arsenal of allegations," he told the president, "No, that is false," one by one, in "a serial fashion as he moved from one theory to another."Īmong the allegations Donoghue said Trump was "so fixated on" was a report that claimed there was a 68% error rate in one Michigan county's ballot-counting machines. As the president continued to refuse to concede the election, his most loyal. Former Acting Attorney General Testifies About Trumps Efforts to Subvert. Former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue testifies before the House select committee Thursday. Pressuring state officials to find votes.