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The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 1980. The Republican nominee, former California governor Ronald Reagan, defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory . Carter's unpopularity and poor relations with Democratic leaders encouraged an ...
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May 24, 2024 · As the 2024 presidential election approaches, some social media users continue to spread false claims that the 2020 presidential contest was stolen, pointing to purported fraud in Georgia...
From six months before, during, and after the 2020 United States elections, most notably during a speech held late on November 5, President Donald Trump, who was running for re-election on the Republican Party ticket, suggested and claimed that large-scale electoral fraud would happen, was happening, or had happened, to the effect that it would ...
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- Criminal Investigations
- Role of The U.S. House Select Committee on January 6
- Role of The National Archives and Records Administration
- Related Investigations
On January 7, when asked at a press conference whether the speakers at the rally prior to the Capitol attack were being investigated for their remarks, Acting District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin stated "Yes, we are looking at all actors here, not only the people that went into the building, but . . . were there others that maybe a...
By March 2022, the DOJ had seated several grand juries, including one regarding the fake electors scheme, to help prosecutors decide whether to bring charges against Trump's inner circle.One grand jury issued subpoenas to several Trump associates involved in the planning and financing of the president's "Stop the Steal" rally that preceded the Capi...
Background
The House select committee on January 6 interviewed over 1,000 witnesses. While the committee's investigation was ongoing, it shared certain information with the Justice Department: for example, the committee's suspicion of witness tampering in Trump's placing of a phone call to a witness (witness tampering is punishable by up to 20 years in prison).The committee began releasing transcripts on its website on December 19, 2022.
Criminal referrals
On October 21, 2022, the committee subpoenaed Donald Trump for documents and testimony. Trump refused to comply, opening the possibility that the House could vote to hold him in contempt and the Justice Department could then charge him with criminal contempt of Congress. On November 11, his lawyers sued to block the subpoena. In their initial court filing, they characterized the committee's investigation as a "quasi-criminal inquest".On December 19, 2022, the committee criminally referred Tru...
In 2022, the Justice Department subpoenaed NARAtwice, seeking documents about January 6. On September 30, 2022, after the House Committee on Oversight and Reform had requested Trump administration records, NARA responded: "we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should." NARA, acknowledging DOJ's "ongoing investigation", did not pub...
On December 22, 2022, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance told MSNBC that other investigations (apart from the January 6 investigation) might proceed relatively quickly. She said: "The Georgia district attorney is wrapping up her proceedings. The Mar-a-Lago documents situation ― where Trump took classified materials with him ― is extremely serious, an...
Oct 25, 2022 · Conservatives filed a flood of lawsuits alleging there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election that robbed Trump of victory. At nearly every turn, judges across the country rejected such...
Nov 5, 2020 · Allegations of fraud and foul play in the 2020 US election have spread across the internet, casting doubt on the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. Trump repeatedly claimed...
Jan 11, 2021 · 24867. Page Views. Image by Visuals on Unsplash. Topics. Elections. / Partisan Issues. / Politics. Research Questions. In the run-up to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, false statements about alleged election fraud – particularly with respect to mail-in voting – have been widespread.
