The testimony from the three former Justice Department officials is expected to center on a chaotic stretch in the final weeks of the administration when Trump openly weighed the idea of replacing Rosen with a lower-ranking official, Jeffrey Clark, who was seen as more willing to champion in court the president’s false claims of voter fraud. On Wednesday, the panel will hear testimony from the highest levels of the Trump-era Department of Justice - acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, his top deputy Richard Donoghue and Steven Engel, the former head of the department’s Office of Legal Counsel - according to a person familiar with the situation and granted anonymity to discuss their appearances. “Trump’s intention was to remain president of the United States,” she said. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., told the hearing Thursday night. “Over multiple months, Donald Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power,” Rep. Nevertheless Trump refused to accept defeat and his desperate attempt to cling to the presidency resulted in the most violent domestic attack on the Capitol in history. With 1,000 interviews and 140,000 documents over the year-long probe, it will lay out how Trump was told repeatedly that there were no hidden ballots, rigged voting machines or support for his claims. The House panel investigating the 1/6 attack on the Capitol is prepared next week to reveal more details and testimony about its assessment that Trump was made well aware of his election loss. 6 was one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history,” the president said, “a brutal assault on our democracy.”Īmericans, he said, must “understand what truly happened and to understand that the same forces that led to Jan. When the panel resumes Monday, it will delve into its findings that Trump and his advisers knew early on that he had in fact lost the election but engaged in a “massive effort” to spread false information to convince the public otherwise.īiden spoke of the importance of the committee’s investigation in remarks Friday in Los Angeles.
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The prime-time hearing was watched by an estimated 20 million people on the TV networks, almost double the number who tuned in to the opening of Trump’s two impeachment trials. The scale and virulence of that scheme began to take shape at the opening House hearing by the committee investigating 1/6. 6, 2021, where extremists groups led the deadly Capitol siege. When all else failed in his effort to stay in power, Trump beckoned thousands of his supporters to Washington on Jan. WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump was told the same thing over and over, by his campaign team, the data crunchers, and a steady stream of lawyers, investigators and inner-circle allies: There was no voting fraud that could have tipped the 2020 presidential election.īut in the eight weeks after losing to Joe Biden, the defeated Trump publicly, privately and relentlessly pushed his false claims of a rigged 2020 election and intensified an extraordinary scheme to overturn Biden’s victory.
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