Donald Trump asked the country’s top legal official in late December about a conspiratorial draft complaint aimed at overturning the 2020 election results
, according to a previously unreported account of Trump’s phone call with former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen.
Rosen didn’t find Olsen’s arguments persuasive. He had already been in touch with the Texas lawyer, emails previously released by House investigators show, and challenged him to come up with Supreme Court precedents backing up his case. Direct conversations between presidents and top law enforcement officials on pressing legal matters are rare, let alone on a subject as sensitive as potentially throwing out the votes of millions of Americans. But Trump, from his attempts to steer former FBI chief James Comey during the Russia probe to his public sparring with Jeff Sessions and William Barr, had long ignored such norms.A lawyer representing Rosen did not respond to a request for comment.
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