Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), he urged the DOJ officials to “just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen.” Trump specifically cited Perry and Mastriano in a Dec. » READ MORE: Scott Perry is the most loved and hated congressman in Pennsylvania Even after Barr’s statement, however, Perry and Mastriano both contacted Donoghue to amplify the pressure to investigate Pennsylvania’s election results. 1 that DOJ had seen no evidence of fraud significant enough to affect the election results. Weeks before that meeting and call, however, the previous attorney general, Bill Barr, had said on Dec. Perry’s January statement said his conversations about the election with Trump and others “were a reiteration of the many concerns about the integrity of our elections, and that those allegations should at least be investigated.” Perry brought Clark to meet with Trump in the Oval Office and later, according to Donoghue’s notes, called Donoghue to praise Clark as “the kind of guy who could really get in there and do something about this.” border and “the Orwellian violation of our personal medical decisions.”Īmong the information included in the report and its supporting documents:
“The repetitive allegations in this ‘report’ are part of an ongoing, desperate attempt to distract from what progressive policies are doing to our country,” Mastriano said, citing inflation, migrants at the U.S. He backed off when top DOJ officials threatened a mass resignation. The president later considered installing Clark, a Tacony native and Father Judge High School graduate, as acting attorney general in an attempt to get more traction for his false fraud claims. Senate investigators say Clark was introduced to Trump by Perry, who later urged top DOJ officials to give Clark more authority over election reviews. Seventy minutes later, Donoghue wrote back: “There is no chance that I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this.” Attorney Jeffrey Rosen and Donoghue, according to the report. “I see no valid downsides to sending out the letter,” Clark wrote on Dec. After meeting with Trump in the Oval Office, the inquiry found, Clark pressed top DOJ officials to issue a letter announcing they were investigating election fraud in key swing states and to urge lawmakers to appoint alternate slates of electors. It also called for more scrutiny on Philadelphia native Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a Justice Department lawyer who emerged as one of the strongest advocates for questioning the election results. Senate Judiciary Committee showed how Perry and Mastriano directly contacted the Justice Department’s second-ranking official, Deputy Associate Attorney General Richard Donoghue, to reinforce Trump’s baseless claims about the election, and urge the department to investigate debunked accusations. The 394-page report from Democrats on the U.S. The third Trump ally mentioned is attorney Cleta Mitchell. It named them as two of three key allies of former President Donald Trump who aided his efforts to subvert the election results and have “notable” connections to the insurrection. Doug Mastriano - as key figures who used false and debunked theories to pressure the country’s top law enforcement officials to investigate the state’s 2020 presidential election results.Ī report on its findings released Thursday urged House investigators to look more deeply into what role Perry and Mastriano may have played in fomenting the Jan. Senate Democrats has singled out two Pennsylvania Republicans - U.S.