Capitol storming: Commission targets Trump’s attempts to pervert justice

The committee will consider Mr. Trump’s pressure on the department to officially publicize election fraud and launch parallel federal lawsuits to those launched by the president’s attorneys.

It will also return to the tensions within the ministry in the days leading up to January 6, 2021, when the defeated president faced an internal rebellion while trying to install one of his relatives at the head of the establishment.

Mr. Rosen was appointed after Secretary Bill Barr resigned in December 2020, but found himself at the center of Trump’s efforts to hold on to power after his election defeat, and wanted Jeffrey Clark to be installed.

This mid-level official, who espoused the theories the president has pushed about a fraudulent election, was dismissing the department’s conclusions that found no evidence of fraud that could have altered the outcome of the November ballot.

Jeffrey Clark also had to intervene on behalf of the department to refuse to certify the election result in the key Georgia state, where Joe Biden won only 12,000 votes in advance.

But Jeffrey Rosen, Richard Donoghue, Stephen Engel and White House attorney Pat Cipollone threatened to resign during a meeting with Donald Trump on January 3, warning that they would take top federal prosecutors across the country with them.

Bill Barr, a devotee of Donald Trump, in his testimony before the committee, considered allegations of electoral fraud “nonsense” expressed by a man “detached from reality.”

On Wednesday, the inquiry announced that two additional hearings would be held in July.

Congress cuts off work on July 4 for two weeks.

A parliamentary source explained that “the committee continues to receive new evidence important for the investigation.”

In particular, she wants to see a documentary by filmmaker Alex Holder, who had access to Mr Trump and his relatives, before and after January 6.

After a year of investigation, the commission wants to present its conclusions before the end of the summer, putting Donald Trump at the center of an “attempted coup” that culminated in an attack on hundreds of his supporters on the Capitol in Washington in January. 6, 2021, as elected officials witness Joe Biden’s victory.

Images of chaos in and around the Capitol spread around the world and rocked American democracy for a few hours.