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"The OIG Joseph V. Cuffari did not press the dept leadership at that time to explain why they did not preserve these records...

Cuffari also failed to alert Congress to the potential destruction of government records."

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#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"In a nearly identical scenario to that of the DHS leaders’ texts, the Secret Service alerted Cuffari’s office seven months ago, in December 2021, that the agency had deleted thousands of agents’ and employees’ text messages."

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#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"In the weeks before the attack on the Capitol, Trump had been pressuring both men to help him claim the 2020 election results were rigged and even to seize voting machines in key swing states to try to “re-run” the election."

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“It is extremely troubling that the issue of deleted text messages related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol is not limited to the Secret Service, but also includes Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, who were running DHS at the time”
~HHS Committee Chair Bennie G. Thompson

"The discovery of missing records for the top officials running the DHS... raises new questions... about what other text messages & evidence the dept & other agencies may have erased, in apparent violation of the Federal Records Act."

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"Trump also called Cuccinelli to pressure him to seize voting machines in swing states & help him block the peaceful transfer of power.

Trump falsely told him that the acting AG had just said that it was Cuccinelli’s job to seize voting machines “and you’re not doing your job.”

"several lawmakers called for hearings into why DHS had failed to anticipate the threat Trump supporters posed to Congress on the day lawmakers and VP Mike Pence planned to certify the election results.

Wolf resigned 5 days after the attack"

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"A Government Accountability Office report in 2020 found that Wolf and Cuccinelli were ineligible to serve in their positions because their appointments had not followed the proper order of succession, an issue the GAO referred to the DHS Office of Inspector General."