The US committee investigating the Capitol riot hears of efforts by an increasingly desperate Donald Trump to stay in power after he lost the election. These are the biggest revelations.
The words "pressure campaign" have been used repeatedly in the first public hearings of the US House committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021.and overturn the results of 2020 presidential election.calling on them to help him hold power, in one case by "finding" thousands of votes.
Despite repeated objections from several top officials, the former president apparently refused to take no for an answer. All three DOJ officials recalled facing relentless demands from the president to use the agency's powers to help him investigate false claims of widespread election fraud. He added the DOJ rebuffed all the requests because "we did not think that they were appropriate based on the facts and the law, as we understood them".Each of the witnesses, who were all part of the Trump administration, told the committee when it became clear to Mr Trump they wouldn't comply, he sought to install a new attorney-general.But the president tried to give him a big new title.
The letter falsely claimed the agency had evidence that would force the key swing state to rescind its certification of President Joe Biden's victory there. The hearing heard that Mr Trump allegedly tried to appoint Sidney Powell as his "special counsel" to investigate bogus claims of election fraud. The former federal prosecutor briefly became the face of the campaign after unleashing a series of wild theories on the American public.A final showdown at the White House
It soon became clear that DOJ leadership would resign en masse and Mr Clark would be left leading a "graveyard".But he still had one last card to play: Convincing his vice-president Mike Pence to block certification of the election results on January 6.The committee also dropped some receipts showing several top Republicans allegedly sought pre-emptive presidential pardons in the dying days of the Trump administration.
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