A new report provides fresh details of how officials fought off Donald Trump’s efforts to press the

A new report provides fresh details of how officials fought off Donald Trump’s efforts to press the Justice Department to pursue voter fraud claims. The interim report, prepared by the Senate Judiciary Committee and released publicly on Thursday, describes how Justice Department officials scrambled to stave off a series of events during a period when Trump was getting advice about blocking certification of the election and the president’s actions were so unsettling that his top general and the House speaker discussed the nuclear chain of command. It’s the most complete account yet of Trump’s efforts to pressure the department to upend the election and do his bidding in the chaotic final weeks of his presidency. “Thanks to a number of upstanding Americans in the Department of Justice, Donald Trump was unable to bend the department to his will,” Sen. Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement. “But it was not due to a lack of effort.” Tap the link in our bio to read more.

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