Former chief of staff of President Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, pressured the US Department of Justice to investigate unfounded theories of fraud in the last presidential election, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The American newspaper had access to five emails, dated December 2020 and January 2021, exchanged between Meadows and then US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, which show that the head of administration has requested an investigation into various election fraud theories circulating on social media.
Among the accusations in the investigation was an indictment, which alleged that the machines that registered votes in the November presidential election were controlled remotely from Italy using military technology and that they were responsible for shifting Trump’s votes in favor of Biden.
The New York Times noted that both emails and letters close to Rosen said the attorney general had refused to investigate Meadows’s election fraud theories.
One report also revealed that Rosen had refused to arrange a meeting between the FBI and the man who posted videos on the Internet in support of the Italian theory of alleged electoral fraud known as Italgate.
In addition to alleged pressure on Rosen, Meadows also participated in a conversation between Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which the former president asked him to find evidence of alleged fraud in the state.
According to newspaper sources, Rosen is in talks with the Justice Department to discuss pressure on the judiciary to investigate election irregularities pointed out by Trump, but for which no evidence has been found.
The emails are examples of attempts by the former president and his allies in the final weeks of his presidential term to find ways to undermine or even invalidate the November 2020 election results while still controlling the government.
