of people that included roger stone and steve bannon urging trump to declare victory regardless of the results, the actual legal results, of the 2020 election. now the january 6th select committee cites a memo that fitton wrote for trump in the run-up to election day, i think the summer before the election, as evidence that in the words of committee member zoe love gren friend the big lie was untensional, promeditated and a plan concocted in advance. here s a snippet from the january 6th select committee s final hearing. a few days before the election, mr. trump also consulted with one of husband outside advisers inside activist tom fitton about the strategy for election night. the select committee got this pre-prepared statement from the national archives. as you can see, the draft statement, which was sent on october 31st, declares we had an election today and i won, and the fitton memo specifically indicates a plan that only the votes counted by the election day deadline
privacy was inaud adequate. that would be two big avenues of discussion. as well as what was this criminal investigation involving some sort of financial crime linked to trump. how did they pursue it, what happened to that. charges were never brought. the other thing, though, there s a complication here. those people who quit, at least one of them no longer works for the justice department. and the in thor general may not have authority to force people to cooperate with an investigation, who are no longer employees of the justice department. and the other complication is that it s not clear that there s two different ways the justice department investigates itself. there s the inspector general and the office of professional responsibility. and ethical problems, misconduct that falls short of law breaking, generally is more in the opr than the inspector general there could be two