Trump defends election comments after DOJ notes release

Former president Donald trumpDonald Trump Meghan McCain Democrats ‘Should Give Trump Some Credit’ For COVID-19 Vaccine Trump Testing Tsar Warns Blockages Could Be On The Table If People Don’t Get Vaccinated Overnight Health Care: The Tsar Warns CDC Details Massachusetts Outbreak That Triggered Mask Update | White House says national vaccine mandate “not under review at this time” MORE defended his comments to senior Justice Department officials about the 2020 election after the notes of an appeal in December were released on Friday.

The House Monitoring and Reform Committee published notes Former Deputy Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, Richard Donoghue, took on a Dec. 27 call between himself, Rosen and Trump.

The notes showed Trump was pushing officials to investigate allegations of electoral fraud without any evidence and allegedly told officials to say the election was “corrupt.”

“Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me” and other congressional allies, Donoghue wrote, the former president said in the appeal.

Trump released a statement on Saturday criticizing the House Oversight Committee for leaking the documents and said it was wrong to describe him as attempting to “overturn the election.”

The corrupt and very partisan House Democrats who head the House Oversight Committee yesterday released documents – including court documents relating to the 2020 rigged election – which they dishonestly described as an attempt to overthrow the elections, “Trump said while repeating that the election was” rigged “despite the lack of evidence for the assertion.

“In fact, it is quite the opposite. The documents were aimed at defending the integrity and honesty of the elections and the sanctity of our vote, ”he added. “The American people want and demand that the President of the United States, their head of law enforcement in the country, stand up with them to fight for the integrity of the elections and investigate attempts to undermine our nation. “

Officials told Trump that the DOJ could not investigate allegations of voter fraud if there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud, according to notes in the documents.

Donoghue reportedly told Trump that there were “dozens of investigations, hundreds of interviews” conducted by the DOJ, and no evidence of widespread voter fraud was found.

Trump has claimed for months that the election was rigged and even called on Congress to investigate his claims in Saturday’s statement, more than eight months after the election.