Trump: Leave the Rest to Me
Evidence mounts that Trump and his congressional allies pressured DOJ and other government officials in a criminal conspiracy to overturn the election.
The Department of Justice released Richard Donoghue’s handwritten notes documenting how Trump pressured then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen to make false claims of voter fraud. When informed that DOJ had no power to overturn the election results, Trump replied, “Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me” and to congressional allies.
The demands are the latest example of President Donald J. Trump’s wide-ranging efforts to delegitimize the election results during his final weeks in office.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
By Katie Benner
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump pressed top Justice Department officials late last year to declare that the election was corrupt even though they had found no instances of widespread fraud, so he and his allies in Congress could use the assertion to try to overturn the results, according to new documents provided to lawmakers.
Video: Hayes: Let’s Call It What It Was—Trump’s Failed Coup, MSNBC | 7/30/2021
“The last thing left to him was the mob, and so he used the mob. That violent, bloody insurrection—the failed coup we saw was his final attempt after he tried everything else,” says Chris Hayes on the Trump plot to stay in power.
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