At the time, President Donald Trump repeatedly sought to attack top Justice officials to investigate allegations of fraud in the 2020 elections. The parliamentary riotwas heard on Thursday.
Trump also followed the lesser-known Republican Rep. Scott Perry, Pennsylvania , to investigate his allegations and act as a junior bureaucratic promotion. Requested to push up to the position. The Ministry of Justice, the Commission heard.
Three former DOJ officials hosted a relentless campaign for Trump to maintain power and a dramatic Oval Office confrontation a few days before the Capitol rioted, the Ministry of Justice. He testified that he had considered replacing his chief with a sympathetic official on the 45th. president.
Officials have made each Trump request, including a Supreme Court case. He said he refused. They found no evidence of widespread fraudulent voting.
Donohue, acting Deputy Attorney General during the decline of the Trump administration, said the president had "suspicious weapons" about so-called fraudulent elections, but he said, "No, they are true. It wasn't. "
Attorney General Jeff Rosen said that Trump called or met him" every day "between December 23, 2020 and January 3, 2021 and was fraudulent. He testified that he had discussed the election allegations.
At some point, Trump was Rosen and they Donohue-and instead he wanted to defend Trump's false theory because he refused to pursue his claim, so he installed Jeff Clark, then Assistant Assistant Attorney.
Trump convinced Perry to promote Clark to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and give him responsibility to handle allegations of fraudulent elections . Said.
"He said,'Jeff Clark is great and I think he's the kind of person who can get in and do something like this,'" Donohue testified. did.
Rosen takes Trump's job as acting Attorney General to Clark in January Testified that he provided. 2 and internal call records showed that the White House had already called him Chief Executive Officer by the next day.
During a meeting in the Oval Office of the High Stakes, Trump asked the top executive of the Justice Department, "What do I need to lose?" By giving Clark a job.
Officials testified that if Trump carried out his plan to let Clark take control, he warned Trump that there would be a large number of resignations within the department. Only then did Trump forgive and keep Rosen in place.
"Hundreds of leadership resignations within 72 hours You can do it for your actions across your Department of Justice. What is it going to say about you? "Donohue remembered telling Trump.
Clark, summoned by the Commission, repeatedly exercised his constitutional right to self-incrimination while taking testimony on tape. The
hearing also focused on a number of Republicans who were in line with Trump's allegations and later demanded amnesty a few days after the Capitol riots.
Representatives Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Scott Perry (R-Pa.) I was inside. , Former White House aide Cassidy Richard said in a pre-recorded interview.
Hutchinson also said that Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) "spoken about the amnesty of Congress, but he never asked me for an amnesty." She also heard that Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) "sought an amnesty from the White House's advisory office ... but I wasn't in frequent contact with Mr. Greene." Said there is.
