Donoghue took detailed notes on a December 27 phone call between Trump and the acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, in which Trump tried to get the DOJ to straight up declare the election results were fraudulent. He was a pivotal figure actually in Trump`s relentless pressure campaign to get the DOJ to just overturn the 2020 election. Politico reports former DOJ second end command Richard Donaghue spoke to the panel and a closed door session on Friday. But other officials linked to the Trump White House are apparently cooperating with the one six investigation. Tonight Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the former impeachment manager who is on the 1/6 Special Committee described the next steps should Trump`s allies try to defy the subpoenas.įederal marshals apparently can`t locate him. Keep in mind only a sitting president can invoke executive privilege. They`ve all been told to show up for depositions next week.įormer President has threatened to stop his aides from giving any information to the committee saying in a statement quote, we will fight the subpoenas on executive privilege and other grounds. That`s because tomorrow is the deadline for four of Trump`s top officials to respond to a subpoena to turn over e-mails call records, other documents related to the Capitol attack what they knew and when they knew it. The House Select Committee investigating 1/6 is about to face its first major test. It`s exactly nine months to the day since the desecration of our Capitol and the attempt, let`s not forget, to overturn our presidential election. Also tonight we are just hours from a major deadline in the House investigation into the 1/6 riot and insurrection.

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