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US Senate report details Donald Trump’s all-out bid to undo 2020 election results
- The Senate Judiciary Committee’s report describes how Trump pressured the Justice Department, asking leaders to declare the election ‘corrupt’
- His actions led to a near-revolt at department headquarters that receded only after senior officials warned of a mass resignation
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A report by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic majority details Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost, with the Justice Department brought to the brink of chaos and top officials there and at the White House threatening to resign.
The report describes how the Republican incumbent tried to undo the vote and exert his will on the department, asking leaders to declare the election “corrupt”.
His actions led to a near-revolt at department headquarters that receded only after senior officials warned of a mass resignation.
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At one White House meeting, Trump considered replacing the acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, with the acting assistant attorney general, Jeffrey Clark, telling Rosen: “One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election.”
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Clark had positioned himself as more sympathetic to pursuing Trump’s fraud claims even though the results were certified by states and Republican election officials, courts rejected dozens of legal challenges and Trump’s one-time attorney general, William Barr, said Democrat Joe Biden won fairly.
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