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Politics

Trump urged Justice Dept. to overturn vote results, documents show

By Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters Posted on July 30, 2021
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Then-President Donald Trump pressured top U.S. Justice Department officials in December to overturn his election defeat, threatening to oust them if they did not comply with his demands, documents released by congressional investigators show.

The handwritten notes, taken by then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and released by the chair of the House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee on Friday, paint a damning picture of Trump as he desperately sought to get the Department to take the unprecedented step of intervening in the 2020 presidential election.

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Trump urged Justice Dept. to overturn vote results, documents show

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