the groundwork for the rally that he will hold on january 6th. during the last few days of december, and into early january 2021, trump presses the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and acting deputy attorney general richard donahue on election fraud claims in wisconsin, georgia, and pennsylvania. all of which are debunked. on december 28th, coconspirator full, four who appears to be ex doj official jeffrey clark sends a draft literal to rosen and donahue. he pushes them to sign. the letter he wants to send to this if interpreted state contains election lies and claims the justice department had, quote, identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election and multiple states. luckily, donahue rejects that. but trump, no. he doesn t give up. he keeps going. on december 31st, trump meets with rosen and donahue and other advisers were he again raises election lies.
acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and acting deputy attorney general richard donahue on election fraud claims in wisconsin, georgia, and pennsylvania. all of which are debunked. all of which are debunked. on december 28th, coconspirator four, who appears to be ex doj official jeffrey clark sends a draft literal to rosen and donahue. he pushes them to sign. the letter he wants to send to those seven targeted states contains election lies and claims the justice department had, quote, identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election and multiple states. luckily, donahue rejects that. trump, no. he doesn t give up. he keeps going. on december 31st, trump meets with rosen and donahue and other advisers where he again raises election lies.
these claims were nonsense. not just from his abel white house lawyers, but also from his own department of justice officials, and indeed his own campaign officials, as white house counsel pat cipollone told us. with respect to the election fraud issue, to me it is kind to make those kind of claims, and people were open to them early on because people were making all sorts of claims. the real question, is show the evidence, okay? it wasn t just the justice department, the trump campaign and the trump house white house lawyers knew, it even to rudy giuliani s own legal team admitted that they did not have any real evidence of fraud sufficient enough to change the election result. here s an email from rudy giuliani s lead investigator, bernie kerik, on december 28th, 2020, to chief of staff mark meadows. mr. kerik did not mince any words, we can do all the
i d like to yield to the gentlewoman from wyoming, vice chair cheney. thank you very much, mister kinzinger, and thank you gentlemen, for yielding. as we discussed earlier, at the center of mr. clark s plan to undo president trump s election laws was a letter. mr. donahue, on december 28th, mr. clark email to you and mr. grave constitutional consequences. mr. donahue, can you tell us what you meant by that? well, i had to read both the email and the attach letter twice to make sure that i really understood what he was proposing because it was so extreme to me. i had a hard time getting my head around it initially, but i read it, and i did understand it for what he intended, and i had to sit down and, sort of, compose what i thought was an improper response.
governments that the justice department had discovered tons of election fraud in states that biden had won. and so republican-led legislatures in those states should probably just go ahead and replace the biden electors with trump electors on the advice of the u.s. department of justice. at the center of mr. clark s plan to undo trump s election loss was a letter. mr. donoghue, on december 28th, mr. clark emailed you and mr. rose, in the draft letter he wanted you to sign, and sin to georgia state officials. you testified that this could have, a quote, grave constitutional consequences. mr. donoghue, can you tell us what you meant by that? i had to read both the email and the attached letter twice to make sure i really understood what he was proposing. because it was so extreme to me, i had my hard time getting my head around it initially. but i read it and i did understand, it for what he intended. and i had to sit down and sort