In that case, the inspector general could refer the matter to federal prosecutors. Clark crossed the line into potentially criminal behavior. The Justice Department’s inspector general could make a determination about whether Mr. Clark’s actions emerge, it is unclear what, if any, consequences he could face. Trump’s orbit played in the effort to undermine the peaceful transition of power, “which is what Trump tried to do, intently and concertedly.”Īs details of Mr. Rosen presented new facts and evidence that led him to believe that the committee would need to answer “profound and important questions” about the roles that individuals in Mr. Grassley, Republican of Iowa Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska and Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, attended parts of the interview. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and chairman of the committee Charles E. Rosen’s more than six hours of testimony. Blumenthal was one of a handful of senators, including Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, and Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, who sat through most of Mr. Trump delivered an incendiary speech to thousands of his supporters hours before a mob of loyalis ts violently stormed the Capitol. Biden’s electoral victory, as a day of reckoning. 6, when Congress convened to formalize Mr. Pressuring state officials to ‘find votes.’ As the president continued to refuse to concede the election, his most loyal backers proclaimed Jan. Rosen’s account “dramatic evidence of how intent Trump was in overthrowing the election.” Trump’s Bid to Subvert the Election Clark, with the Senate Judiciary Committee. Rosen discussed previously reported episodes, including his interactions with Mr. Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said Mr. Clark’s colleagues to prevent the White House from overturning the election results, and Mr. Such a letter would effectively undermine efforts by Mr. Biden’s victory because the Justice Department was investigating accusations of voter fraud in the state. Rosen to send to Georgia state legislators, wrongly asserting that they should void Mr. Trump about ways to have the Justice Department publicly cast doubt on President Biden’s victory, particularly in battleground states that Mr. Clark had been engaging in unauthorized conversations with Mr. Multiple reporters noted that the crowd at the legal-minded Federalist Society erupted in applause after Pence slapped down the idea that he could have stopped the election certification.He also discovered that Mr. Pence during his speech on Friday described the attack on the Capitol as a “dark day.” “And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons” 6 fairly,” the former president on Saturday in Texas. “If I run, and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 rioters should he win back the White House in 2024. 6 committee should be investigating the former vice president because he “did not send back the votes for recertification or approval.” A few days before that he griped that Pence “could have overturned the Election!” The day before that, Trump floated the prospect of pardoning Jan. Trump said earlier this week that the Jan. Pence has been one of Trump’s favorite punching bags as the former president continues to complain about losing the 2020 election. “A great opportunity lost, but not forever, in the meantime our Country is going to hell!” “I was right, and everyone knows it,” Trump added. 'New York Times' reporter Katie Benner discusses the latest revelations about how former President Donald Trump pressured the Justice Department to undermine the results of the 2020 election. 6 attack on the Capitol, during which rioters chanted for Pence to be hanged.įormer Trump issued a statement Friday night responding to Pence’s comments, calling the former vice president “an automatic conveyor belt for the Old Crow Mitch McConnell to get Biden elected President.” The remarks are the former vice president’s strongest rebuke of Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results and defenses of the Jan. “Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president,” he added. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone.” “I had no right to overturn the election. “This week, our former president said I had the right to ‘overturn the election.’ President Trump is wrong,” Pence said Friday. Pence argued, simply and correctly, that he had no legal right to do so. Former Vice President Mike Pence in a speech before the Federalist Society on Friday responded to former President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks against him for not stopping the certification of the 2020 election results last Jan.
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