Former acting attorney testifies efforts subvert install#
What followed was a roughly two-and-a-half-hour meeting, by Rosen and Donoghue's telling, where Trump repeatedly pressed but was eventually dissuaded from his plan to install Clark atop the Justice Department to pursue baseless allegations of voter fraud just days before Congress was set to convene to certify Biden's victory. 28, which he sought to send to Georgia's governor and other top state officials, advising them to convene the state legislature into a special session so lawmakers could investigate claims of voter fraud. The emails showed a draft letter circulated by Clark on Dec. In August last year, ABC News exclusively obtained emails showing how Rosen and Donoghue rebuffed Clark's request to urge officials in Georgia to investigate and possibly overturn Biden's victory in the state. The source said Rosen used that information to coordinate with other department officials a plan of mass resignation if Trump were to remove him and install Clark.
The source said that at one point Clark discussed with Rosen that the president was about to name him acting attorney general and that Rosen could potentially stay on as Clark's deputy. 6, which culminated in the deadly attack on the Capitol.ĪBC News has learned that Rosen on Thursday will testify that he was under repeated and constant pressure from Trump to find widespread corruption.Ī source familiar with the matter told ABC News that Rosen would often simply reply to the president that his department was "just not seeing the evidence." Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said the hearing will seek to tie Trump's effort to "corrupt the Department of Justice" into his broader plan to thwart the certification of Biden's victory on Jan. In remarks last week, the committee's vice chair Rep. Similar to the committee's first two hearings revealing evidence gathered from their nearly year-long investigation, much of the details of Trump's effort to weaponize DOJ in his effort to undermine the results of the election have been reported on previously. Trump’s post-election interaction with top DOJ officials portray a president pressing for specific investigations that could potentially help him keep his grip on power.Īnd FBI and DOJ investigators did indeed end up investigating some of the more outlandish claims pushed by Trump election lawyers like Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and others. Trump's efforts following his loss to Biden blew up any notion of Justice Department independence on criminal investigations that might benefit the White House or president politically. Throughout his four-year tenure, former President Trump completely disregarded and distorted Justice Department protocols in place since the post-Watergate era, where the department sought to generally avoid having the White House or the president directly involved in criminal matters.
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