Trump put pressure on the Justice Department in the elections, but the panel inquiry is primarily a rehash

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House Committeesaid yesterday that President Trump pressured top Judiciary officials to find more and more reasons to declare the 2020 elections corrupt. I made a claim.

Unfortunately, we've heard most of them before.

The January 6 panel had previously scooped itself up by replaying a taped testimony record of the same former DOJ employee who was a witness. Anyone who follows it knows the gist of what happened and why the effort failed.

This does not undermine the gravity that the president blatantly imposes on the country's Supreme Law enforcement officers to act improperly after no serious fraud is found in the elections.

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, Capitol of Georgia Brad Ruffence Purger and Georgia Secretary of State Gabriel Sterling are on June 21 by the US Capitol Selection Committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol at the US Capitol. I swear to testify to the fourth of the eight scheduled hearings. , 2022. REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst. The House Commission yesterday insisted that President Trump pressured top Judiciary officials to find more and more reasons to declare the 2020 elections corrupt. (REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst)

How strong Republican testimony emphasized the Trump pressure campaign

But unlike the dramatic hearing byRepublican state officialson Tuesday, Trump and Rudy Giuliani repeatedly pressured them to violate their oath of office. , This felt like a rehash. There was a lot of modest lawyer talk. It's important because the goal of the Democratic-controlled committee was to broadcast a television show that convinced casual viewers of the guilt of the former president.

I've seen handwritten notes by Deputy Prosecutor Richard Donohue explaining important events, and yesterday they flashed on the screen again. 

And Trump wanted to replace his attorney Jeffrey Rosen with his bidding lawyer, Jeffrey Clark, but eventually resigned. did.

According to Donoghue's testimony, what was striking was that when the Justice Department knocked down each, the president cast a lot of debate about fraud, but moved to another rationale. It was that.

Trump demands a special session on a department official appointing a special counsel for election fraud, meeting Giuliani, filing a Supreme Court proceeding, holding a press conference, or changing electors. Proposed to send the letter to Georgia and other states. , Said Donohue.

Trump's private lawyer Rudy Giuliani spoke at a press conference Increasingly November 19, 2020, Republican National Committee Headquarters in Washington, DC. This felt like a rehash, unlike Tuesday's dramatic hearing with Republican state officials that Trump and Rudy Giuliani repeatedly pressured them to violate their vows of duty. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)

"He insisted more that we weren't working." Said Donohue.

Trump asked about reporting high error rates in Antrim County, Michigan. Officials told him that a recount of his hands found one mistake.

They also told Trump that the report that the truck driver ran a valuable ballot on the tractor trailer was false.

And authorities knocked down yet another claim and told the president that more than 200,000 votes in Pennsylvania weren't actually cast, Donohue said.

Next, I received a handwritten note reflecting Trump's eye-popping request. "Tell me the elections are corrupt and leave the rest to me and Congressman R."

But it was literally reported by the media in July last year, almost a year ago.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace described the account as a "bomb," but most of them had already exploded. In the second half of the

hearing,Deputy Rosen AGstated that he had no reason or legal authority to act on Trump's alternative proposal.

Even the conspiracy theory inherited from Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was that an Italian contractor uploaded software to switch votes from Trump to Joe Biden. Donohue called it "pure madness" and "obviously ridiculous."

The final act of the play: "Excited" Trump told Rosen and Donohue, "People are telling me that both of you should be removed." 

January. 3, Clark told Rosen that Trump provided him with his job, the job of acting lawyer president. Clark said he would decline the offer if Rosen signed a letter requesting a special session in Georgia. "There was no way to sign the letter ," Rosen said.

At a press conference at the Washington Department of Justice on October 21, 2020, it was addressed to Assistant Assistant Attorney Jeffrey Rosen. Clark said he would decline the offer if Rosen signed a letter requesting a special session in Georgia. "There was no way to sign the letter ," Rosen said. (REUTERS / Yuri Gripas / File Photo)

Media prosecuted Trump as most Democrats backcharged Issued a red flag at

At a meeting in the Oval Office that night, when Trump said, "What do I need to lose?", Donohue was Clark. Was accused of having no criminal experience. "President, I will resign soon. I haven't worked for this guy for a minute," Donohue recalled telling him.

Assistant Assistant Attorney Steven Engel told Trump, "You will lose your entire departmental leadership ... hundreds, hundreds of resignations. What are you going to say about you?" rice field. White House adviser Pat Cipillone called Georgia's letter a "murder-suicide agreement."

Trump has retreated from his plan to dismiss Jeff Rosen.

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That's great A scene that will be a movie – but again, I've seen flicks. The essence of the confrontation was reported by the media in late January 2021.

(There was also testimony that several Republicans, including Louie Goehmert and Matt Gaetz, sought the president's amnesty, but these were not allowed.)

Yesterday there was one dramatic disclosure, which took place outside the hearing room. Justice ministry investigators went to Jeffrey Clark's house, which Trump wanted to be in charge of, and searched for documents the day before.

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As a former Justice Ministry reporter, I To minimize what Trump did not want. If the Democratic president had taken the same steps in the elections he disputed, there was an angry bark from the Republicans, which was of course the case.

But that wasn't new news.