Justice Department Investigating Whether DOJ Officials Tried To Alter Election Outcome

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Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced Monday that his office has launched an investigation into whether any current or former department officials engaged in an “improper attempt” to alter the outcome of the 2020 election

Friday an alleged plot devised by Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Clark and former President Trump to oust Georgia’s acting attorney general and wield the DOJ’s influence to overturn the state’s election results, a claim that Clark has categorically denied.on the inspector general to launch a probe “into this attempted sedition” over the weekend., the investigation will look into allegations concerning current or former DOJ officials, but not those levied against other government officials.

“The OIG is making this announcement ... to reassure the public that an appropriate agency is investigating the allegations,” read the statement., which said that Trump had considered replacing Georgia’s Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Clark, who would then leverage the DOJ’s power to help Trump keep office. The then-president was ultimately dissuaded from this plan, according to the reports, though Clark has vehemently denied that the plan ever existed. “There were no ‘maneuver[s]’.

 

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Someone in government needs to do something about the immense corruption by Trump and his admin. We don't pay our taxes, and DOJ, FBI salary, for them to just leave the investigations for journalists to conduct.

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