WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Documents obtained from the U.S. Department of Justice detail efforts by then President Donald Trump, his chief of staff and other allies to pressure the department to challenge the 2020 presidential election results, a U.S. House panel said on Tuesday.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee, which sought the records from the Justice Department, outlined a series of overtures from Trump, top aide Mark Meadows and an outside private attorney pushing the department to act on the former Republican president’s false election claims.
The documents come as U.S. lawmakers continue to investigate the Jan. 6 deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump supporters seeking to thwart Congress’ certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s win.
“These documents show that President Trump tried to corrupt our nation’s chief law enforcement agency in a brazen attempt to overturn an election that he lost,” Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said.
Their release comes ahead of the committee’s hearing later on Tuesday with FBI director Christopher Wray, who testified before another House panel earlier this month, and General Charles Flynn, brother of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who has also advanced Trump’s election conspiracy theories.
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This Justice Department won’t do a goddamned thing with this. The DoJ has made a political calculation, which is complete chickenshit. They are prosecuting all the peons that participated in the storming of the Capitol, but won’t touch those who sent them. I believe the reason is that they wish to prevent making political martyrs out of Trump, Trump Jr., Giuliani, Moe (Howard) Brooks, etal. Rather, by leaving the instigators untouched, and prosecuting the rabble, it will have a hoped for effect of gathering resentment from those who perpetrated it against those who fomented it. If this is true, it’s no less a politicization of the DoJ by Garland and democrats, than was done by Barr and GOP.
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