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Newly released emails indicate the Trump White House wanted the Justice Department to pursue 2020 election challenges and examine baseless claims related to Dominion Voting Systems and foreign entities flipping votes from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden, despite Attorney General William Barr concluding he hadn’t unearthed voter fraud that would change the outcome.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform released 232 pages of DOJ emails, titled “Selected Documents President Trump Pressure Campaign on Department of Justice,” focused on the period following Barr’s resignation, with now-former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen taking over.
Just before Barr’s resignation was announced, White House staffer Molly Michael sent Rosen a Dec. 14 email “From POTUS” on “Antrim County Talking Points,” which contended, “This is the evidence that Dominion Voting machines can and are being manipulated … A cover-up is Happen
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Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, left, seen outside the White House in DC in October 2020.
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GOP complaints about voting procedures in Michigan, phantom “anomalies” on ballots in Georgia, and Italian satellite hackers: Emails released by the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday show to what ridiculous extremes officials in Donald Trump’s White House went to enlist the Department of Justice in its attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
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There’s never been any substantive evidence whatsoever that Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential race was due to fraud: It’s been debunked time and again, by everyone from Trump’s own DOJ chief to local election officials. Yet Trump spent the weeks after the election cooking up a series of fruitless, conspiracy theory-filled lawsuits in various states attempting to have the results tossed out, pressuring various state officials to do it for him, and sign