众议院监督委员会周五发布的前代理副总检察长理查德·多诺霍的手写笔记似乎表明，前总统特朗普试图向司法部施压，要求宣布2020年总统选举存在重大欺诈。
这些文件是委员会在调查推翻2020年选举结果的努力中获得的。
这些笔记来自2020年12月27日特朗普和时任代理司法部长杰夫·罗森的电话。
根据多诺霍的笔记，罗森告诉特朗普，司法部无权逆转选举结果。
“要明白，DOJ不能+不会打响指+改变选举结果，这是行不通的，”罗森说，根据笔记。
根据笔记，特朗普回答说:“不要指望你会这么做，只说选举腐败+把剩下的留给我和r .国会议员。
在通话的另一点上，笔记显示罗森和多诺霍试图说服特朗普，他对选民欺诈的指控是虚假的。
“先生我们已经做了几十项调查。，数百次采访，重大指控都没有evid的支持。根据笔记，多诺霍告诉特朗普。“我们正在做我们的工作。你得到的很多信息都是假的。”
然而，特朗普不会动摇。
“我们有义务告诉人们，这是一次非法、腐败的选举，”他说，根据笔记。
众议院监督委员会主席卡罗琳·马洛尼在一份声明中说:“这些手写的笔记显示，特朗普总统直接指示我们国家的最高执法机构采取措施，在他总统任期的最后几天推翻一场自由公正的选举。“委员会已经开始安排与关键证人的面谈，以调查前总统腐败的全部程度，我将运用我所掌握的一切工具，确保所有证人的证词都得到及时保护。”
在这些说明发布的几天前，美国司法部确定包括罗森和多诺霍在内的六名前特朗普司法部官员可以参与国会的调查。
Newly released notes show Trump pressured DOJ to declare election was 'corrupt'
Handwritten notes from former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, released Friday by the House Oversight Committee, appear to show that former President Trump tried to pressure the Department of Justice to declare there was significant fraud tainting the 2020 presidential election.
The documents were obtained by the committee as part of its investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The notes are from a December 27, 2020, phone call between Trump and then-Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen.
According to Donoghue's notes, Rosen told Trump that the Justice Department had no power to reverse the outcome of the election.
"Understand that the DOJ can't + won't snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election, doesn't work that way," said Rosen, according to the notes.
"Don't expect you to do that, just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen," Trump replied, per the notes.
At another point in the call, the notes showed Rosen and Donoghue trying to convince Trump that his allegations of voter fraud were false.
"Sir we have done dozens of investig., hundreds of interviews, major allegations are not supported by evid. developed," Donoghue told Trump, per the notes. "We are doing our job. Much of the info you're getting is false."
Trump however would not be swayed.
"'We have an obligation to tell people that this was an illegal, corrupt election," he said, according to the notes.
"These handwritten notes show that President Trump directly instructed our nation's top law enforcement agency to take steps to overturn a free and fair election in the final days of his presidency," House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said in a statement. "The Committee has begun scheduling interviews with key witnesses to investigate the full extent of the former President's corruption, and I will exercise every tool at my disposal to ensure all witness testimony is secured without delay."
The release of the notes comes days after the Justice Department determined that six former Trump Justice Department officials, including Rosen and Donoghue, canparticipate in Congress' investigation.
