Headline Roundup • June 15th, 2021
Emails Show Trump Pressed DOJ to Back Election Fraud Claims
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The Trump White House urged Department of Justice officials to challenge the 2020 election results based on unproven claims of fraud, according to emails released Tuesday by the House Oversight and Reform Committee. In one case, former President Donald Trump’s assistant emailed fraud claims to then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen less than an hour before Trump tweeted that Rosen would replace then-Attorney General William Barr, who had publicly stated that there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud. In another case, then-acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue wrote “Pure insanity” in response to a fraud theory sent by Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Right-rated outlets were less likely to cover this story as of Tuesday afternoon; left- and center-rated outlets tended to feature it prominently on homepages. Some coverage in left-rated outlets called Trump’s fraud claims “outlandish” and cited the “pure insanity” quote in headlines.
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CNBC
In his final days in office, then-President Donald Trump pressured top Department of Justice officials to challenge his election loss to Joe Biden, the House Oversight Committee said Tuesday.
The oversight panel said a cache of more than 200 pages of newly released emails from Justice Department officials and White House staff sheds new light on how Trump tried to undermine the results of the 2020 election and advance unsupported voter fraud claims with the “apparent goal” of keeping himself in power.
The Daily Caller
Documents released by the House Oversight Committee show how former President Donald Trump and his allies pressured the Department of Justice (DOJ) to back his baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged late last year.
The documents, which were made public Tuesday, show Trump and several allies, including his former chief-of-staff Mark Meadows, pressuring senior DOJ officials to investigate voter fraud claims last December and January. One email with the subject line “From POTUS” urged then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to investigate alleged fraud in Antrim County, Michigan, even though...
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Politico
Top Justice Department officials derisively dismissed a series of last-ditch efforts by then-President Donald Trump’s aides and emissaries to get DOJ lawyers and the FBI to investigate outlandish election fraud claims in the waning weeks of Trump’s presidency, newly-released emails show.
The emails — made public by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — detail the Justice Department’s response to attempts by Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows to get investigators to look at bizarre allegations in a YouTube video where a former intelligence officer named Brad Johnson asserted that individuals...
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