About a week before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, there was an “escalation” of then-President Donald Trump’s earlier demands about election fraud allegations, a former top official in the Justice Department testified Thursday, including an “arsenal of allegations that he [Trump] wanted to rely on.”
In testimony before the House select committee investigating the insurrection, former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue said he told Trump “based on actual investigations, actual witness interviews, actual reviews of documents that these allegations simply had no merit.”
In a 90-minute conversation on Dec. 27, 2021, Donoghue said he went one by one through claims of fraud to debunk them for Trump.
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