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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Namita Singh

Government lawyers say Trump’s plan to reverse loss in key states ‘a murder-suicide pact’

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Donald Trump alledgedly hounded the Justice Department to pursue his electoral fraud claims, backing down only after lawyers threatened mass resignation, a congressional inquiry has heard.

The Justice Department officials from the Trump administration recounted persistent badgering from the president to help overturn his 2020 election defeat in a testimony to the House panel investigating the Capitol riots on Thursday.

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