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Jan 8, 2024 · Donald J. Trump pressured state and federal government officials to overturn results of the 2020 election in more than 30 phone calls or meetings, according to The Times’s analysis of the...
Jun 23, 2022 · A video produced by the House Select Committee played in its last hearing on Tuesday detailed former President Donald Trump and his team’s efforts to sway election officials and intimidate...
Aug 6, 2021 · The effort included attempts to politically weaponize the Justice Department and apply pressure on federal, state and local officials in the service of that goal.
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Jun 16, 2021 · House Democrats are uncovering evidence of ex-President Donald Trump's extensive pressure campaign to overturn 2020's election results. A House panel released 232 pages of emails and other...
- 'They Did Their Jobs'
- Focus on Georgia
- Threats to Public Officials
- 'Hateful' Messages and Lives Upended
- Involvement of GOP Lawmakers
The panel is keeping to a tight narrative as it makes its case to the American public that Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat directly led to the violence at the Capitolon Jan. 6, when hundreds of his supporters broke into the Capitol and interrupted the certification of Biden’s victory. The witnesses at Tuesday’s hearing were all public offici...
Trump’s pressure was most intense in Georgia, where Biden narrowly won after years of GOPpresidential victories in the state. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his deputy, Gabe Sterling, testified about becoming two of the president’s top targets as he floated conspiracy theories and as they refused to back down to his pressure. The...
The hearing also examined how Trump’s threats put state officials in danger. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson talked about how her “stomach sunk” when she heard the sounds of protesters outside her home one night after the election when she was putting her child to bed. She wondered if they had guns or were going to attack her house. “Tha...
Some of the day’s most emotional testimony came from two former election workers in Georgia who have seen their lives turned upside down after Trump and Giuliani spread false conspiracy theories that they were engaging in ballot fraud. The Justice Department has debunked claims that Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, introduced suit...
While the committee has had a hard time getting GOP lawmakers to do interviews — five House Republicans have so far defied the panel’s subpoenas — the committee revealed some additional detail about what Trump’s allies in Congress were doing at the time of the insurrection. The committee revealed a text from an aide to Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., to ...
Jun 21, 2022 · Trump's pressure campaign on state election officials is focus of Jan. 6 hearing Tuesday - ABC News. The committee will hear from GOP officials from Georgia and Arizona. By Benjamin Siegel, Libby Cathey, and Katherine Faulders. June 21, 2022, 5:53 AM. 4:31. An image of former President Donald Trump is displayed duri...Show More. Show More.
Jun 23, 2022 · At the same time he was trying to strong-arm the Justice Department, Trump’s campaign lawyers were pressuring state officials to overturn results and organizing slates of fake electors.
