U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., wants Americans to remember the support that former President Donald Trump received from Republican members of Congress in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
By Adam Schiff | For The New York TimesOn Dec. 27, 2020, more than six weeks after losing re-election, an infuriated President Donald Trump telephoned his acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen.
It was a remarkable statement, even for a president who had serially abused the powers of his office. Having been told by the very department that had investigated his claims of fraud that they were untrue, Trump told the acting attorney general and his deputy to lie about it and said he would take it from there.
But one line of effort to overturn the election is given scant attention, and that involved the willingness of so many members of Congress to vote to overturn it. Even after Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police put down the insurrection , the majority of Republicans in the House picked up right where they left off, still voting to overturn the results in important states.
With our work on the committee largely concluded, it will now fall to the Justice Department to ensure a form of accountability that Congress is not empowered to provide, and to vindicate the rule of law in a manner beyond our reach: through prosecution.
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