A House committee released email exchanges that shed new light on Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to get the Justice Department to investigate baseless claims of voter fraud
WASHINGTON—The House Oversight Committee released email exchanges on Tuesday that shed new light on former President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to get the Justice Department to investigate his baseless claims of voter fraud in the weeks before President Biden’s inauguration.
Among the communications was one from Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who on Jan. 1 forwarded to the Justice Department a YouTube link referencing unsubstantiated allegations that people in Italy had manipulated the U.S. election results. A then-senior Justice Department official, Richard Donoghue, had two words for it: “Pure Insanity.”
Then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen responded to Mr. Donoghue, his deputy: “Yes,” adding that he had turned down a request for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to meet with someone working with Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who purported to have evidence of the claims. “Asked if I would reconsider, I flatly refused, said I would not be giving any special treatment to Giuliani or any of his ‘witnesses’, and reaffirmed yet again that I will not talk to Giuliani about any of this,” wrotesix days earlier after Attorney General William Barr resigned under pressure from Mr. Trump.
In another message that same day, Mr. Meadows asked Mr. Rosen to examine allegations of “signature match anomalies” in Fulton County, Ga. Mr. Rosen forwarded the message to Mr. Donoghue, adding: “Can you believe this? I am not going to respond to the message below.” Mr. Barr had said, and other officials have concurred, that there was
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