COMING SOON: Former acting AG Jeffrey Rosen testifies alongside two other former DOJ officials, Rich Donoghue and Steve Engel, on information uncovered in this Committee's October 2021 investigative report.
Here's what you need to know before the upcoming #January6thHearings ⬇️
Last year, this Committee interviewed Rosen, Donoghue, and former US Attorney BJay Pak as a part of our tandem #January6th investigation. Their testimony makes clear that DOJ repeatedly told Trump that the stolen election claims he was peddling were false. judiciary.senate.gov/subverting-jus…
The information the #January6thCommitteeHearings will focus on includes key points uncovered in the Senate Judiciary Cmte interviews.
Full transcript of our interview with Rosen: judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
Full transcript of our interview with Donoghue:judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
From the moment Rosen was named Acting AG, he repeatedly told Trump that the claims of election fraud the President was peddling were false. Rosen told us that at a 12/15/21 meeting, he and Donoghue said, “people are telling you things that are not right. This is not accurate.”
Donoghue also told us, “we were informing [Trump] throughout the course of these conversations that what we had seen to date and what we were seeing did not change AG Barr’s assessment of the reliability of the election.”
Despite being repeatedly being told that there was no widespread fraud, Trump asked Rosen and Donoghue on December 27 to “just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R Congressmen” — a direct quote, according to Donoghue’s testimony before @JudiciaryDems.
Donoghue told us, “'leave the rest to me and the Republican congressman,' I understood that to be that they were pursuing a political process on the Hill, whereby the allies of the President would be challenging some of the electoral college votes.”
Trump pushed DOJ to announce at a press conference that the election was corrupt, and Rosen and Donoghue again told him there was no basis to do so. On the same call, Trump told Rosen and Donoghue, “people tell me Jeff Clark is great. I should put him in [DOJ leadership].”
Rep. Scott Perry then called Donoghue to offer his endorsement of Clark—saying, “‘He’s the kind of guy who could really get in there and do something about this.’” Perry has publicly admitted to introducing Clark to Trump. He later asked Trump for a pardon, per @January6thCmte.
On January 3, Clark told Rosen that Trump had decided to install him in Rosen’s place. In a meeting in the Oval Office, Rosen told us Trump began the meeting by saying, “One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election.”
The President backed down, but not for long. That night, Trump forced the resignation of U.S. Attorney BJay Pak & chose an acting U.S.A. from outside the line of succession—per Donoghue, because Trump believed “if he’s good, he’ll find out if there’s something there” in Georgia.
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