
Former US Justice Department officials have testified before the panel investigating the Capitol riot that former President Donald Trump pressured them to declare the results of the 2020 US election “corrupt” and threatened those who refused to go along with his plan.
In the fifth public hearing this month on the January 6, 2021 attacks, officials said on Thursday that Trump considered replacing the acting attorney general with a more pliant candidate who would go along with his efforts to overturn the vote.