OnPolitics: Trump White House pushed DOJ on voter fraud claims Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY
There s lots of news this week from the Republican Party. Former President Donald Trump has been out of office since January, but we re just now learning new details about how the Justice Department was run during his four years in power.
Democrats on the other hand are still working out a way forward on an infrastructure bill.
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The Trump White House began to privately pressure then-Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen to look at allegations of voter fraud just before he was about to step in as acting head of the Justice Department in December – and even after then-Attorney General William Barr had publicly acknowledged the agency had found no evidence of widespread fraud that would ve changed the results of the election.
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