🚨 New York Times: “President Donald J. Trump pressed top Justice Department officials late last year to declare that the election was corrupt… so that he and his allies in Congress could use the assertion to try to overturn the results.” https://t.co/SLqqFb38xk
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 30, 2021
It’s becoming clearer why AG Barr resigned in December. With this reporting about Trump’s daily calls to Rosen, DOJ’s decision that executive privilege does not protect conversations about election fraud takes on added significance. Issue the subpoena! https://t.co/JcpYv4R4Z9
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) July 30, 2021
Former President Trump called acting AG Rosen almost daily to pressure the DOJ to investigate false claims of voter fraud last year, the Washington Post reports.https://t.co/1AxN301M9K
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 30, 2021
Here are Richard Donoghue's damning (for Trump) notes on the 12/27/20 call. Donoghue was a Trump administration political appointee then serving as a top aide to Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, https://t.co/GvXW1Qrf90
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) July 30, 2021