Jan. 6 panel to hear from DOJ officials who battled Trump’s ‘misuse’ of agency
by Rebecca Beitsch - 06/23/22 5:25 AM ET
Justice Department officials’ unwavering resistance to then-President Trump’s attempts to use their agency to legitimize his bid to remain in office will be the focus of Thursday’s hearing from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
“In the remaining weeks of the transition, President Trump tried to pressure the Department of Justice and help him overturn the 2020 election,” a select committee aide told reporters Wednesday.
“We’ll look specifically at how the president was trying to misuse the department to advance his own agenda to stay in power at the end of his term.”
The Department of Justice was met with a barrage of requests from Trump: that they publicly back his baseless claims of election fraud; that they file lawsuits alongside his campaign; that they announce a special legal counsel to investigate the matter; and, later, that they send letters to states asking them to hold off on certifying their election results while DOJ investigated alleged fraud.
When none of that worked, Trump weighed firing his DOJ leadership and installing a man who would: Jeffrey Clark.
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