Kurt Olsen, a private attorney for Trump, also contacted department officials requesting the federal agency file the brief.
"Pure insanity," Richard Donoghue, who was the acting deputy attorney general, wrote to Rosen in response to Meadows' latest email promoting the theory.Emails from the end of December and early January showed that White House officials, including Meadows, directed then-Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark to advance the election fraud claims by reaching out to a U.SIn the end, Trump was unsuccessful in getting his Justice Department to take legal action to overturn the presidential resultsA few days after Biden’s inauguration, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced that he would investigate whether any current or former officials engaged in an “improper attempt to have DOJ seek to alter the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.â€
Maloney said Tuesday that she has asked that Meadows and the former Justice Department officials involved in the pressure campaign appear for transcribed interviews before the committee