the next election to try to make sure your side is a better chance next time the people sell their differences at the ballot box. . you cannot turn violent and you cannot try to achieve desires through harassment or intimidation. and a real leader who sees that going down that path, approaching that line has a responsibility to say stop. we gave it our boost. we came up short. we try again next time. because we settle our differences at the ballot box. on december 14th, 2020, the presidential election was officially over. electoral college had cast his vote, joe biden was the president elect of the united states. by that point, many of donald trump s supporters were already convinced that the election had been stolen. because that s where donald trump had been telling them. so with donald trump was acquired to do in that moment, but would have been required of any american leader was to say we did our best and we came up short. he went the opposite way. he seized on the anger
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
that insane letter was apparently created last december. dates december 28th, 2020, that letter explicitly describes these forged slates of electors from multiple states. it says in the middle of the letter, the department believes that in georgia and several other states, both a slate of electors supporting biden and a separate slate of electors supporting trump gathered on december 14th at the proper location to cast their ballots and that both sets those ballots have been transmitted to washington, d.c. to be opened by vice president fence. pence. in fact, i don t know why the justice department believed that to be true, but that was correct. we now know, republicans in multiple states had sent in false assertions, forged documents claiming to be the electors for their states. that draft letter was dated december 28th. how did that guy, that trump guy at the justice department know that two weeks earlier,
information. here s the thing, that insane draft letter written by jeff clark, which made trump want to install him as attorney general, it was apparently created late last december. dated december 28th, 2020. that letter explicitly describes these forged slates of electors from multiple states. it says in the middle of the letter, the department believes that in georgia and several other states, both a slate of electors supporting biden and a separate slate of electors supporting trump gathered on december 14th, and both sets of ballots have been transmitted to washington, d.c., to be hoped by vice president pence. i don t know why the justice department believed that to be true, but that was correct. we now know, republicans in multiple states had sent in false assertions, forged documents claiming to be the electors for their states.
december 28th, 2020, and it urged georgia s governor and the state lawmakers there to investigate these supposed voter irregularities. this letter was drafted one day after we know that then president trump pressured the top two officials at doj to say the election was corrupt. we know from previous reporting that trump had an ally in jeffrey clark. so clark wanted the acting attorney, jeffrey rosen and his deputy, richard donoghue to sign off on this letter and it falsely stated that doj found voting irregularities that impacted the election outcome in several states. what we re seeing in subsequent emails that accompanied this letter is how rosen and donoghue stopped this effort. they said there was no widespread election fraud. that s something the a.g. bill barr publicly stated and there was no basis for this letter drafted by jeffrey clark to be sent to georgia or any other