June 15, 2021 🟡 Significant

Emails reveal Trump White House pressured DOJ to investigate "Italian satellites" conspiracy

New documents released by the House Oversight Committee showed that in the final days of his presidency, Trump's White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows repeatedly pressured the DOJ to investigate baseless conspiracy theories, including a claim that Italian satellites had switched votes from Trump to Biden ('Italygate').

"pure insanity" — Acting AG Jeffrey Rosen's email response to the conspiracy theories

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Offenses:
abuse-of-power disinformation
Domains:
justice-system democracy
Tags:
#doj-pressure#election-subversion#italygate#conspiracy

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