The Senate Judiciary Committee released a report titled “Subverting Justice: How the Former President and His Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election” on Thursday morning and it contains some interesting new findings that we’re not sure have been previously reported publicly:
- “After personally meeting with Trump, [then Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Division] Jeffrey Bossert Clark pushed [then Acting Attorney General Jeffrey] Rosen and [then Associate Deputy Attorney General Richard] Donoghue to assist Trump’s election subversion scheme – and told Rosen he would decline Trump’s potential offer to install him as Acting Attorney General if Rosen agreed to aid that scheme.”
- “Trump forced the resignation of U.S. Attorney [for the Northern District of Georgia] Byung Jin (“BJay”) Pak, whom he believed was not doing enough to address false claims of election fraud in Georgia. Trump then went outside the line of succession when naming an Acting U.S. Attorney, bypassing First Assistant U.S. Attorney Kurt Erskine and instead appointing Bobby Christine because he believed Christine would ‘do something’ about his election fraud claims.”
- “U.S. Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District, who led the objection to counting Pennsylvania’s electoral votes on the House floor in the hours immediately following the January 6 insurrection. Perry has acknowledged introducing Clark to Trump, and documents and testimony confirm that he directly communicated with Donoghue about his false Pennsylvania election fraud claims.”
Read more from the report here.