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Updated July 30, 2021 at 3:32 PM ET
In a telephone call in late December, then-President Donald Trump pressured senior Justice Department officials to declare the 2020 election corrupt in an effort to help him and his Republican allies in Congress try to overturn the outcome, according to documents provided to a House committee.
It was previously known that Trump publicly and privately pushed the Justice Department to investigate his baseless claims that the election was stolen, but the new documents nine pages of contemporaneous notes from a Dec. 27 phone call between Trump, then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and then-acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue provide new insights into those efforts.
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