Donald Trump biết rằng ông đã thua cuộc bầu cử năm 2020, nhưng ông không muốn rời Nhà Trắng và thừa nhận thất bại của mình trước công chúng nên ông đã nói dối. Ông đã nói dối và ông đã nhiều lần cố gắng buộc Bộ Tư pháp Hoa Kỳ phải ủng hộ những lời nói dối đó và "để phần còn lại cho ông ta". Ông đã yêu cầu các viên chức cấp cao của Bộ Tư pháp do ông lựa chọn tham gia vào một âm mưu tội phạm do Trump và những người theo ông ta dàn dựng, về bản chất không gì khác hơn là một cuộc đảo chính để chiếm đoạt quyền lực một cách bất hợp pháp và lật đổ ý chí và lá phiếu của người dân Mỹ.

First Attorney General William Barr refused – and Barr of course is the man who sat on and mischaracterized the Mueller Report to protect then-President Trump. Barr’s replacement and other senior DOJ leaders appointed by Trump also refused to violate their oaths of office and the United States Constitution by aiding and abetting Trump’s plot. When those senior DOJ officials refused to lie about the election, then-President Trump threatened to name as Acting Attorney General an unqualified environmental lawyer – Jeffrey Clark – willing to follow his orders to lie about the election and participate in his criminal conspiracy.

Testimony today revealed that only threat of mass resignation by senior DOJ officials, if Clark was named Acting A.G., prevented the former President from appointing the unqualified lawyer to the post.

We also learned today that earlier this week federal investigators staged a pre-dawn raid to search the home of Jeffrey Clark as part of their investigation into coordinated efforts by the Trump White House to overturn the 2020 election.

Today, reports were also verified that a number of Republican members of Congress sought preemptive pardons from the Trump before he left office – to shield them from potential prosecution for their roles in attempting to subvert the election.

The American people deserve the truth about the January 6^th insurrection. The Select Committee is providing that truth. The American people also deserve justice for that terrible day in our nation’s history – a day when democracy almost fell to an attempted coup. We trust that justice is coming. And ultimately, we need laws in place to guard against this from ever happening again, including provisions from the Protecting Our Democracy Act (which already passed the House) that would insulate the Justice Department from political interference and provide oversight to detect it.