New Emails Show Trump, Allies Pressured DOJ To Challenge 2020 Election
Savannah Rychcik
June 15, 2021 at 9:40am
President Donald Trump and his allies reportedly pressured the Justice Department to try to challenge the results of the 2020 election.
According to newly released emails obtained by CNN from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, Trump told his allies to pressure then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to join the effort and “consider false and outlandish allegations that the election had been stolen,” as CNN reports.
Trump allies also reportedly put pressure on the Department of Justice to “investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election,” per CNN.
Rosen said he would not speak to Trump’s longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani about his unsubstantiated claims that the election was stolen, as CNN reports.
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pushed Rosen to set up an FBI meeting with a Giuliani ally promoting a conspiracy theory that Italy was using military technology and satellites to switch votes to President Joe Biden.
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