Surveys Reveal Trump Forced Justice Dept. over 2020 election

Throughout the last months of his presidency, Donald Trump and his allies forced the Justice Department to research unsubstantiated claims of widespread 2020 election fraud that his former attorney general announced without signs, recently released emails reveal.

Surveys Reveal Trump Forced Justice Dept. over 2020 election

The mails, published Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee, show in fresh detail Trump, his White House chief of staff as well as other allies forced members of the U.S. government to dispute the 2020 election false claims.

Officials in Homeland Security and the Justice Department, in addition to Republican election leaders throughout the nation, repeatedly stated there was no blatant fraud. Former Attorney General William Barr, a longtime Trump loyalist, was one of those who stated there was no proof of fraud.

The mails also demonstrate the degree to which Trump functioned to enlist then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen in his effort's failing legal attempts to challenge the election outcome, such as indicating filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Trump's lies concerning the election helped spur about the mob which stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 at a failed attempt to prevent the certificate of Joe Biden's success.

Many instances, as an instance, Trump allies composed about Dominion Voting Systems' possible voter fraud, a conspiracy theory now the field of a billion-dollar defamation suit from the voting firm.

Meadows strove to possess Rosen explore the conspiracy theories and pushed the acting attorney general to meet up with a president of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani who was pitching unfounded election conspiracies which Italy was utilizing satellites and military technologies to modify votes.