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New York (77WABC) – Newly emails from Justice Department and White House officials show that President Donald Trump and his allies pressured then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to consider allegations that the 2020 election had been stolen.
In a batch of emails released by the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, they show how Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and other allies pressured the Justice Department to investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election with Trump telling his allies to push Rosen to challenge the election result. The emails were sent around the same time Trump replaced Attorney General William Barr with Rosen in December 2020 after Barr publicly said there wasn’t evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Acting AG Rosen, responding to a nutty request for immediate investigation of bogus voter fraud allegations from WHCOS Mark Meadows: "Can you believe this?" Acting DAG replies: "At least it's better than the last one, but that doesn't say much." https://t.co/Dmh2q9xFZZ pic.twitter.com/RLBfPmxG5G
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) June 15, 2021
In an email on January 1, Meadows says there were “allegations of signature match anomalies” in Fulton County, Georgia, asking Rosen to have a Justice Department official “engage on this issue immediately to determine if there is any truth to this allegation.”
Other emails also suggested more severe action such as filing a brief with the Supreme Court.
Another report from earlier this month shows Meadows asking Rosen to investigate an unfounded conspiracy theory that claimed Italy had used satellites to remotely switch votes for Trump to Biden on U.S. voting machines. One of the emails shows that Rosen rejected meeting between the FBI and a man who was promoting the Italy conspiracy theory in online videos.
