Donald Trump relentlessly pressured top officials at the justice department to pursue groundless claims of voter fraud in an unsuccessful effort to cling to power, according to testimony the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection heard on Thursday. The testimony by former acting US deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue included a claim Trump urged him ‘to tell people that this was an illegal, corrupt election’.
- January 6 panel calls Trump’s scheme a ‘power play’ that nearly succeeded
Source: Elections - theguardian.com
