Newly released emails show Trump pressured DOJ to challenge election results, House Oversight says

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Former President Trump pressured top Department of Justice officials to challenge his election loss to Joe Biden, the House Oversight panel says.

sheds new light on how Trump tried to undermine the results of the 2020 election and advance unsupported voter fraud claims, with the "apparent goal" of keeping himself in power.

The dump of new materials came hours before the Oversight Committee was set to hold its second hearing on the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol invasion.

 

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Meanwhile, Joe Biden is having a disastrous week in Europe, hunter is till busy with his laptop and kamala is still wondering what is she supposed to do with the border crisis. Oh wait, we don’t talk about that or rather you cover those with stories of President Trump

Most pages are repreats to multiple states and its a draft of the formal complaint by Trump. All the emails are 'hey this is for your review'. They highlight Trumps rationale to challenge the results. Asking an organization to do its job is not 'pressure', read the docs.

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Trump is the greatest leader in the whole world. USA needs him.

When are we just going to call a spade a spade and do what’s right for democracy?

And?

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'I felt very clearly from the start of the [Trump] administration that we were heading towards authoritarianism. And so I felt I had to do something, I was terrified that if Trump got in again, that America would be a democracy in name only.' -- Sacha Baron Cohen

Really looking forward to all the consequences of this totally illegal action. I’m sure it’s happening any day now. You can’t break the laws in the US without consequences.

This generations own Nixon

wow

And yet not won't charge of abuse of power.

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