Trump’s Ex-Chief of Staff Is Asked to Testify on DOJ Election Role

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A House committee is asking former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and several former Justice Department officials to be interviewed about evidence it says shows President Donald Trump and his allies tried to pressure the department to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Democrats on the Oversight and Reform Committee assert that the documents they’ve obtained illustrate how Trump, Meadows and others in December 2020 and early January 2021 repeatedly pressed senior DOJ officials to advance unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud.