Few people remember Richard Donoghue, Donald Trump’s last acting Deputy Attorney General serving under Jeffrey Rosen, largely because Trump had a merry-g0-round of “acting” officials in the final days of his disastrous term. Using a notepad taken from his wife’s nightstand, Donoghue took notes during a late night call with Trump in which Trump ordered Donoghue to “just say the election was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen.”
Well, according to MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin, now special counsel Jack Smith has interviewed Donoghue, who was acting Deputy AG from Christmas Eve 2020 through Trump’s last day in office, about that conversation and his notes, information that has largely been in the public domain since Donoghue testified to the House January 6th committee.