{"id":7969,"date":"2022-06-23T19:42:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T23:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trump-tried-to-force-justice-department-to-support-his-lies-to-overturn-2020-election\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T23:42:39","slug":"trump-tried-to-force-justice-department-to-support-his-lies-to-overturn-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ar\/press\/trump-tried-to-force-justice-department-to-support-his-lies-to-overturn-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0645\u0628 \u062d\u0627\u0648\u0644 \u0625\u062c\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0648\u0632\u0627\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u062f\u0644 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u062f\u0639\u0645 \u0623\u0643\u0627\u0630\u064a\u0628\u0647 \u0644\u0625\u0644\u063a\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0646\u062a\u062e\u0627\u0628\u0627\u062a 2020 \u00a0"},"template":"","class_list":["post-7969","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 election, but he did not want to leave the White House and admit his loss publicly so he lied. He lied and he repeatedly tried to force the U.S. Department of Justice to back up those lies and \u201cleave the rest to him.\u201d He was asking his handpicked senior DOJ officials to participate in a criminal conspiracy orchestrated by Trump and his henchmen that at its heart was nothing short of a coup to illegally seize power and overturn the will and the vote of the American people.","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[149,169,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 election, but he did not want to leave the White House and admit his loss publicly so he lied. He lied and he repeatedly tried to force the U.S. Department of Justice to back up those lies and \u201cleave the rest to him.\u201d He was asking his handpicked senior DOJ officials to participate in a criminal conspiracy orchestrated by Trump and his henchmen that at its heart was nothing short of a coup to illegally seize power and overturn the will and the vote of the American people.\r\n\r\nFirst Attorney General William Barr refused \u2013 and Barr of course is the man who sat on and mischaracterized the Mueller Report to protect then-President Trump. Barr\u2019s replacement and other senior DOJ leaders appointed by Trump also refused to violate their oaths of office and the United States Constitution by aiding and abetting Trump\u2019s plot. When those senior DOJ officials refused to lie about the election, then-President Trump threatened to name as Acting Attorney General an unqualified environmental lawyer \u2013 Jeffrey Clark - willing to follow his orders to lie about the election and participate in his criminal conspiracy.\r\n\r\nTestimony today revealed that only threat of mass resignation by senior DOJ officials, if Clark was named Acting A.G., prevented the former President from appointing the unqualified lawyer to the post.\r\n\r\nWe also learned today that earlier this week federal investigators staged a pre-dawn raid to search the home of Jeffrey Clark as part of their investigation into coordinated efforts by the Trump White House to overturn the 2020 election.\r\n\r\n<span class=\"TextRun SCXW133303134 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentStart CommentHighlightPipeRest CommentHighlightRest SCXW133303134 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Plain Text\">Today, reports were also verified <\/span><\/span> that a number of Republican members of Congress sought preemptive pardons from the Trump before he left office \u2013 to shield them from potential prosecution for their roles in attempting to subvert the election.\r\n\r\nThe American people deserve the truth about the January 6<sup>\u0630<\/sup> insurrection. The Select Committee is providing that truth. The American people also deserve justice for that terrible day in our nation\u2019s history \u2013 a day when democracy almost fell to an attempted coup. We trust that justice is coming. <span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW126751353 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW126751353 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126751353 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Plain Text\">And ultimately, we need laws in place to guard against this<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW126751353 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW126751353 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126751353 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Plain Text\"> from<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW126751353 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW126751353 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126751353 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Plain Text\"> ever happening again<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW126751353 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW126751353 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW126751353 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Plain Text\">, including provisions from the Protecting Our Democracy Act (which already passed the House) that would insulate the Justice Department from political interference and provide oversight to detect it.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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