Jun 23 WATCH: Former top DOJ official Richard Donoghue speaks on Jeffrey Clark’s push for false election fraud claims By Associated Press Testimony centered on a tense showdown on Jan. 3, 2021 in which Trump contemplated replacing the acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, with a lower-level official, Jeffrey Clark, who wanted to champion Trump's bogus election fraud claims. Continue reading
Jun 23 WATCH: Former Justice Department official said Trump asked him to call the election ‘corrupt’ By Casey Kuhn Former acting deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue spoke on June 23 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings in their fifth public hearing. Continue reading
Jun 23 WATCH: Rep. Kinzinger highlights Trump pressure on Justice Department By Casey Kuhn and Associated Press Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, highlighted the pressure President Donald Trump was putting on the Justice Department to keep himself in power. Continue reading
Jun 23 WATCH: Rep. Thompson says Trump wanted Justice Department to ‘legitimate his lies’ By Associated Press The Jan. 6 committee is hearing from former Justice Department officials who faced down a relentless pressure campaign from Donald Trump over the 2020 presidential election results while suppressing a bizarre challenge from within their own ranks. Continue reading
Jun 22 Who is Richard Donoghue and why is he testifying at the Jan. 6 hearing? By Kenichi Serino Richard Donoghue, the acting deputy attorney general in the last year of Donald Trump’s presidency and one of the Department of Justice officials who resisted pressure to validate Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud. Continue reading
Jun 22 WATCH: Jan. 6 Committee hearings – Day 5 By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press On Tuesday, the committee heard from election workers and state officials on Tuesday as they described President Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Continue reading
Jun 22 Who is Jeffrey Clark and why is he important to the Jan. 6 hearings? By Kenichi Serino Jeffrey Clark, a high-ranking DOJ official in the Trump administration, did not appear publicly at the fifth House Jan. 6 committee hearing, but most of the witness testimony focused on his actions in President Donald Trump’s final weeks in office. Continue reading
Jun 22 Who is Steven Engel and why is he testifying in the Jan. 6 hearings? By Dan Cooney, Hannah Grabenstein Top Justice Department Steven Engel is scheduled to testify June 23 before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. Continue reading
Jun 22 Capitol riot hearings to stretch into July, chairman says By Farnoush Amiri, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Chairman Bennie Thompson tells reporters the committee is receiving "a lot of information," including new documentary film footage of Donald Trump's final months in office. Continue reading
Jun 22 Who is Jeffrey Rosen and why is he testifying in the Jan. 6 hearings? By Hannah Grabenstein Jeffrey Rosen, former acting attorney general, is expected to testify June 23 at the fifth public hearing of the Jan. 6 committee. Continue reading