Here is a look at how different members of Congress, all Republican, helped the former president attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to the Jan. Many of them also signed on to an ill-fated Supreme Court challenge to Joe Biden’s victory, which the high court quickly tossed. Ultimately, a total of 147 Republican members of Congress - 139 in the House and eight in the Senate - voted against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election on Jan. Congressmen.” (June 23, 2022, Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Exhibit) 27, 2020, call with Donald Trump, Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue wrote: “just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R.
27, 2020, White House phone call intended to spur DOJ officials to paint state election results as tainted, according to testimony and contemporaneous notes. Rosen and his top deputy, Richard Donoghue, in a Dec. “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen,” Trump instructed Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Following the meeting, Trump began public and private efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice in a last-ditch effort to stay in power, treating the lawmakers as close allies in his plan. 21, 2020, to discuss overturning the results of the presidential election, the panel has reported. Mostly purported members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, the members met in the White House on Dec. In public, they amplified bogus vote fraud concerns, while in private they attempted to orchestrate floor votes to deny certification to electors from several states and worked to present alternate slates of electors to Vice President Mike Pence, according to public accounts and committee findings.Īccording to the committee, at the center of those efforts were at least 11 current Republican members of Congress. They variously helped plan and promote Trump’s Ellipse rally on the sixth, and some spoke at the event, according to the committee and news accounts. The lawmakers allegedly collaborated in private meetings with Trump on strategies to stay in power despite losing the election.