The indictment detailed Trump’s effort to make use of the Justice Division to overturn the 2020 election.
“In late December 2020, the Defendant tried to make use of the Justice Division to make knowingly false claims of election fraud to officers within the focused states via a proper letter underneath the Appearing Lawyer Normal’s signature, thus giving the Defendant’s lies the backing of the federal authorities and making an attempt to improperly affect the focused states to exchange legit Biden electors with the Defendant’s,” the indictment said.
The indictment additionally alleged that Trump threatened to alter management within the Justice Division after senior DOJ officers refused to help the previous president’s false claims concerning the 2020 election. The indictment references a 2020 New 12 months’s Eve assembly between Trump, performing Lawyer Normal Jeffrey Rosen, and performing Deputy Lawyer Normal Richard Donoghue.
“On December 31, the Defendant summoned to the Oval Workplace the Appearing Lawyer Normal, Appearing Deputy Lawyer Normal, and different advisors,” the indictment said. “Within the assembly, the Defendant once more raised claims about election fraud that Justice Division officers already had instructed him weren’t true–and that the senior Justice Division officers reiterated have been false and recommended he would possibly change the management within the Justice Division.”
