Trump wanted DOJ to copy Texas's failed election lawsuit in the US Suprme Court nearly verbatim, but lean in more to false election fraud conspiracy theories.
Digging into docs released today by House Democrats: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Digging into docs released today by House Democrats: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Doing a side-by-side comparison, the draft complaint that Trump wanted DOJ to take to SCOTUS mostly copy/pastes the case Texas filed that got tossed on standing. One of the few substantive differences? More references to the Dominion conspiracy theories
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
You can see the difference here: On the left (starting with #39) is Texas's complaint. On the right is Trump's draft that was pitched to DOJ, which mostly tracks the two grafs before Texas's Pennsylvania section, but then adds a Dominion section buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… 
There was a lot of overlap between the post-election lawsuits that Trump filed and ones filed by his supporters/allies — these docs are notable because they show Trump wanted DOJ to literally wholesale pick up where Texas left off (DOJ declined to do so) buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The emails accompanying the SCOTUS draft also show how an outside lawyer who'd worked on the Texas case and was apparently working with Trump, Kurt Olsen, was having trouble getting through to DOJ officials at the time to make the pitch buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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