The Department of Justice (DOJ) is honing in on Donald Trump as part of its criminal investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to reports.
The Washington Post, citing unnamed sources, said that the DOJ has been asking witnesses in front of a special grand jury about their conversations with the former president, as well as questions about meetings Trump held in December 2020 and January 2021.
Other lines of questioning from the DOJ include Trump’s attempts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election results, and how much involvement Trump had with the scheme to install fake electoral officials to falsely declare he won the election instead of Joe Biden in a number of key states.
Until now, the DOJ had focused its fake electoral investigation on Trump’s lawyers, John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani.
The New York Times reported that the DOJ had seized phones from Eastman—who spearheaded a fake election officials scheme—and Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who Trump’s inner circle wanted to install as attorney general to support the false claim the election was rigged and send letters falsely claiming there were voting irregularities in certain states.
The DOJ has also received phone records from a number of White House officials from the Trump administration as part of the investigation, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows in April.
Those who have been questioned about their conversations with Trump include two of Pence’s former top aides: ex-chief of staff Marc Short, and the former vice president’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.
Short has confirmed that he was interviewed by the grand jury in Washington, D.C., but would not specify the details of the questioning. Short also previously sat for a deposition as part of the House Select Committee’s investigation in the January 6 attack.
In March, U.S. District Judge David Carter ruled that Trump “more likely than not” committed a felony in trying to stop the certification of Biden‘s election victory on January 6, while citing Short and Jacob’s communications with Eastman.
The report from The Washington Post is the first indication that Trump’s actions are formally under investigation by the DOJ with regards to his attempts to overturn the election results.
There is still no real indication on whether Trump may become the first sitting or former president to be charged with a crime in U.S. history.
The department, and Attorney General Merrick Garland, have been criticized for their apparent slow response in bringing forward criminal charges against those responsible for trying to overturn the last election, especially amid evidence represented by the January 6 Committee.
Just before reports of the DOJ looking into Trump’s conduct came out, Garland told NBC Night News that prosecutors will “pursue justice without fear or favor” and will not rule out prosecuting the former president if necessary.
“We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for events surrounding January 6, or any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable,” Garland said.
“That’s what we do. We don’t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that.”
The DOJ would have to file charges against 90% of the nation for wanting to overturn the 2020 election. Everyone knows that it was rigged from the go and should be de-certified and install Trump to the presidency….
Majority of Americans do not think it was rigged nor do many in the GOP. Now go back under your rock!
Wow!!! All these so called interviews and questionings and still not able to make anything stick. Maybe because it’s garbage and the Democrats were the real ones scheming to say Biden won instead of Trump.
Why in the hell don’t they spend all this time and money where it will do some good. We all know the reason for this they are all afraid Trump will run and win in 2024 and they don’t know if they can cheat again because people will be watching now. The country has gone to hell and they spend assets on crap, if you want to lock someone up start on this administration everyone of them is guilty of something. How do they stand to look in the mirror? What a sham.
When Philadelphia had more ballots cast than voters and electors in Michigan were pressured into voting to certify their election when they knew the ballot count was out of balance, and we had foreign actors breaking into data bases in October and the percentage of voter turn out exceeded any norms, and he won 18 of 19 bell weather locations but didn’t win as had always been historically done by every candidate. If President Trump believed that the election was impacted by illegal actions he has an obligation as President to protect the United States under the constitution from attacks foreign or domestic. I believe he believed there was evidence sufficient to question the fact that the election was not legally run.
What’s all this about ? DOJ itself falling apart from Communist China introduction our societies wrongfully bring down US by corrupted party’s something big governmental bureaucracy since Clinton in charged it’s not rough decency of crimes for justices department to investigate themselves clear it out their political’s misconduct entirely flips our righteousness leadership accuses right hands man applaud citing criminals to protect US values what a sad stories for the century to coverups themselves for corrupted officials must overturn immediately let Americans peoples regaining confidence further trusting our department of Justice in a glance !
TRUTH hurts, doesn’t it LEFTIES! It is so obvious that it was but since we have COMMUNIST REPROBATES running this THIRD WORLD BANANA REPUBLIC $HIT-HOLE and USEFUL, IDIOTIC SYCOPHANTS like NGN and the rest of the FAKE MEDIA dispensing lies such as this it is no wonder why I cry: REVOLUTION will be the SOLUTION – it always is against TYRANNY! WTFU,
Garland does NOTHING but go after TRUMP. He gets paid handsomely to do a job and is derelict of duty as he only goes after Trump and does NOTHING else.