But the entire hearing is worth watching. The New York Times and Washington Post published good summaries of the June 23 testimony. One select committee witness after another shattered that narrative. Grassley asserted in an October 2021 news release, "The available evidence shows that President Trump did what we’d expect a president to do on an issue of this importance: he listened to his senior advisors and followed their advice and recommendations." Iowa's senior senator, who is also ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, put his stamp of approval on a minority staff report exonerating the president. That document walked through evidence showing "President Trump repeatedly asked DOJ leadership to endorse his false claims that the election was stolen and to assist his efforts to overturn the election results." Grassley didn't accept the Senate Judiciary Committee's Democratic staff interim report, released in October 2021. The testimony from former administration officials and Trump attorneys obliterated the alternate reality Grassley promoted last year, in which the president "did not exert improper influence on the Justice Department." "JUST SAY THAT THE ELECTION WAS CORRUPT" But witnesses and exhibits provided many new details.
The key elements of that conspiracy have been known since the Senate Judiciary Committee investigated that angle last year. Department of Justice to help him subvert the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election. The focus was how President Donald Trump tried to use the U.S. He should have watched the televised hearings on June 23. Bob Leonard of KNIA-KRLS Radio this week. They said they threatened a mass resignation when Trump said he might appoint Jeffrey Clark, a Trump loyalist who backed the voter fraud claims, as acting attorney general.Senator Chuck Grassley has not been following the work of the House Select Committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021, he told Dr. Several Justice Department officials on Thursday testified about Trump's bid to pressure them to back his false election fraud claims, despite their having found no evidence to substantiate them. 6 committee, including Peter Navarro, yet has declined to charge others, including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. In his tenure the DOJ has charged some former Trump officials following referrals by the Jan. 6 committee makes a criminal referral about Trump to the DOJ, whether to go ahead with any prosecution would be up to the present Attorney General, Merrick Garland. Trump in a statement last week hinted at a possible criminal defense, claiming that he genuinely believes his election fraud claims are true and was within his rights to attempt to address the situation. 6 committee has heard from multiple witnesses saying that Trump was repeatedly told by aides and top officials his election fraud claims were false, and even said in private he knew he had lost to Joe Biden. 6 committee has built in its hearings, and would be the basis for a criminal case against Trump. The particular offenses described were obstructing the work of Congress and conspiracy to defraud the United States.Ĭarter's ruling was part of an unrelated case and has no direct impact on any plans to prosecute Trump.Įvidence apparently showing that Trump knew, or should have known, his election fraud claims were false yet continued to promote them anyway has been central to the case the Jan. Kris Connor/Getty ImagesĪ federal judge, David Carter, in a March ruling, found that Trump and one of his lawyers, John Eastman, most likely committed crimes in seeking to overturn the 2020 election. Eric Holder speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice on Septemin Washington, DC.
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