
New York Times: Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows pushed DOJ to investigate baseless election fraud claims
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Mark Meadow, former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff, pushed the Department of Justice in his boss' last days in office to investigate unproven conspiracy theories and fraud claims about the 2020 presidential election, the New York Times reported Saturday.
Meadows sent five emails in late December and early January to then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen asking him to look into election fraud claims in Georgia and New Mexico and other debunked theories that Trump had won the election, the Times reported. The emails from Meadows add to the flagrant attempts Trump made to pressure the Justice Department to overturn his election loss, an extraordinary overreach to compel the department to take partisan political action for his personal benefit. There is no evidence of widespread election fraud that would overturn the 2020 election results, and Meadows' emails to Rosen, the Times noted, violated guidance that bars most White House staff from contacting the DOJ about investigations.
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