Former President Donald Trump’s pressure on his own attorney general’s office to overturn the 2020 election was the focus of Thursday’s hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol – an attempt one dissenting Justice Department official called a “murder-suicide pact.”
Three former ranking members of Trump’s Justice Department testified: Jeffrey Rosen, former acting attorney general; Richard Donoghue, former deputy attorney general; and Steven Engel, former assistant AG.
Chairman Benny Thompson opened Thursday’s hearing by reiterating how the panel had already demonstrated that Trump pressured everyone from local election officials “to his own vice president … hoping public servants would give in to that pressure and help him steal the election he lost.”