Former President Donald Trump reportedly called his acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen almost every day following his election defeat in 2020 to push a probe into unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and ask the Justice Department to take steps to help him undo Biden’s victory, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Citing two people familiar with the conversations, The Post reported that Trump called Rosen nearly daily after former Attorney General William Barr stepped down from his post in late December.
Trump called Rosen to share claims of voter fraud and improper vote counts in the 2020 presidential election that led to his defeat. In sharing the claims, Trump asked Rosen what the Department of Justice (DOJ) could do about the issue. The calls to Rosen stopped following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the newspaper reported.
Rosen did not believe Trump’s claims and didn’t promise any action in response to the president’s request, the Post reported.
“Trump was absolutely obsessed about it,” a person familiar with the conversations told the Post.
Rosen told Congress in May that he didn’t follow through with what Trump wanted, ensuring that no action took place at that time, according to The Post.
“During my tenure, no special prosecutors were appointed, whether for election fraud or otherwise; no public statements were made questioning the election; no letters were sent to State officials seeking to overturn the election results; [and] no DOJ court actions or filings were submitted seeking to overturn election results,” Rosen said.
You can read the entire report at The Washington Post.
