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Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio NEW: House Oversight releases former Acting Deputy AG Donoghue’s handwritten notes detailing a phone call in which Trump pressed them to say the election was “corrupt” and “leave the rest to me.”

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/DOJ%20Donoghue%20Notes%20Extract%20for%20Production.pdf


4:33 PM · Jul 30, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

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NEW: House Oversight releases former Acting Deputy AG Donoghue’s handwritten notes detailing a phone call in which Trump pressed them to say the election was “corrupt” and “leave the rest to me.”https://t.co/GOD0TTBfF0

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) July 30, 2021

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This is bonkers.

The notes detail a separate call with WH officials in late December in which they pushed wild claims of election fraud emanating from *Italy.*

According to Donoghue, the WH officials said the effort was done “in coordination w/ CIA offices in Embassy” in Rome.

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story here —

Trump pressured DOJ to call election ‘corrupt,’ ex-official wrote
A former top official at the Justice Department wrote that Donald Trump told him to "leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen."
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/30/trump-doj-corrupt-election-501775