Friday July 30th 2021
“Says the election was corrupt”
Ministry notes incriminate Trump
Donald Trump emerges as the loser in the US presidential election last November. In order to remain in power, he is said to have asked the Justice Minister and his deputy to declare the result of the vote falsified.
Former US President Donald Trump is said to have urged the Justice Department to have the election he lost declared “corrupt” in order to be able to overturn the result with the help of his allies in Congress. That reported the “New York Times” citing a transcript from the Justice Department that had been made available to a House Committee. The control committee published the transcript a little later.
Trump is said to have said at the end of December in a telephone conversation with the then incumbent Justice Minister Jeffrey Rosen and his deputy Richard Donoghue: “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me.” Donoghue, whose conversation notes are concerned, is said to have told Trump that it was not in the power of the ministry to change the outcome of the election.
Typically, the government does not provide Congress with notes on the President’s discussions with cabinet members. In this case, the Justice Department of the government of Democratic President Joe Biden waived the secrecy, according to the “New York Times”, because it concerns possible offenses by an ex-president as a person, not government acts worthy of protection.
Committees are investigating Trump’s post-election behavior
The ministry also allowed Rosen and Donoghue to answer questions from the House of Representatives’ Control and Justice Committee without special restrictions. The committees are investigating the alleged efforts of Republican Trump to discredit the election or even to overturn it through political machinations against the will of the voters.
After the November 3rd election, Trump spoke of “massive electoral fraud” and also put pressure on local election officers, for example in the state of Georgia. However, dozens of courts dismissed claims against alleged fraud. The Justice Department also said there was no evidence of any major election fraud. Trump, in turn, continues to claim that he won the election.
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