27 phone call, according to handwritten notes taken by a Rosen aide.
Congressmen,' Trump told Rosen, referring to Republicans, in a Dec. 'Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Rosen's testimony came a week after a House of Representatives committee released Justice Department documents showing Trump had urged top officials last year to falsely claim his election defeat was 'corrupt.' I was wrong,' Durbin said, adding: 'It's a good thing for America we had someone like Rosen in that position.' When he was initially appointed, I didn't think that was the case. 'I have to say history is going to very kind to Mr. Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin revealed the new information in a Sunday interview with CNN (pictured), claiming it came out during Rosen's seven hours of closed-door testimony on SaturdayĪccording to the Democratic Illinois senator, Rosen testified that Trump directly pressured him to falsely assert that continuing election fraud investigations cast doubt on President Joe Biden's victory. 'What was going on in the Department of Justice was frightening from a constitutional point of view,' Durbin said, adding that was evident by the fact that former Attorney General Bill Barr prematurely vacated his office after concluding there were no irregularities in the 2020 election. 'I thought he was very open and there's a lot there, an awful lot there,' he added. Rosen appeared voluntarily, which says a lot – and cooperated with us,' Durbin lauded. 'He told us a lot in seven hours of testimony, and I might quickly add, this was done on a bipartisan basis.' 'The former president is not subtle when he wants something.'įormer Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen provided the new information to lawmakers during a seven-hour closed-door Judiciary Committee hearing on Saturday.ĭurbin, who chairs the committee, said Rosen provided 'invaluable' testimony.Īccording to the Democratic senator, Rosen testified that Trump directly pressured him to falsely assert that continuing election fraud investigations cast doubt on President Joe Biden's victory.ĭurbin praised Rosen, a conservative lawyer, for his voluntary cooperation with the committee's ongoing investigation into Trump's actions after the election. And it was very specific,' Senator Durbin told CNN's State of the Union regarding the duress. Dick Durbin revealed Sunday that Trump's acting Justice Department head said the former president used his final months in office to pressure the office to overturn his election defeat.
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