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Chapter 4.5 - Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue Hold the Line (The January 6th Report) Feb 21, 2023

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Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue provided details to the Select Committee about his first meeting with President Trump on December 15th, the day following Barr's resignation. Donoghue said this meeting was primarily focused on the ASOG report auditing the voting machines in Michigan. Trump was adamant that it proved that the election was defective and the Department should be using that report to tell the American people that the election results were not trustworthy.

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Chapter 4.4 - December 14, 2020: Barr Submits His Resignation (The January 6th Report) Feb 20, 2023

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On December 14, 2020, Attorney General Barr submitted his resignation to President Trump. This section provides details about the reason why Barr turned in his resignation and his final Oval Office meeting with President Trump. Before Barr resigned, Trump pressed him to continue to investigate in Michigan after the Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG) released a report on Dominion voting machines in Antrim County.

Chapter 4.3 - December 1, 2020: President Trump Is Irate After Barr Says There Is No Significant Fraud (The January 6th Report) Feb 17, 2023

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After President Trump attacked the DOJ, Attorney General Barr decided to speak out. He invited an Associated Press reporter to lunch on December 1st. Barr told the journalist that the department had not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election. Trump called Barr into the Oval Office and the Attorney General offered his resignation.

Chapter 4.2 - November 23, 2020: Barr Challenges President Trump's Election Lies (The January 6th Report) Feb 16, 2023

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On November 23rd, the Attorney General was called to the White House to meet with President Trump. President Trump didn't feel the Department of Justice was doing enough to investigate his election fraud claims. Barr explained to the President why he was wrong. DOJ, was willing to investigate any specific and credible allegations of fraud. The fact of the matter was that the claims being made had no merit upon further investigation.

Chapter 4.1 - The DOJ Found No Significant Evidence of Fraud (The January 6th Report) Feb 15, 2023

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Note: This is the first section of Chapter 4. Unlike the previous three chapters, Chapter 4 does not have an introduction.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr knew there would be trouble before all the votes had been counted. As was expected, the early vote tally favored Republicans on election night because the mail-in ballots were not yet fully counted. This occurred in 2020 and in previous elections. The President knew of this phenomenon but exploited it on election night, as he and his allies had planned to do. According to Barr, President Trump exploited this timing gap and used it as "the basis for this broad claim that there was major fraud."

Chapter 3.6 - The Fallout From the Fake Elector Plan (The January 6th Report) Feb 14, 2023

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As January 6th approached, there were members of the Republican party who expressed grave concerns about the fake elector effort. It was becoming clear that the Trump team wanted the fake electors' votes to be considered on January 6th even without authorization the states. This section describes some of the last moment attempts to deliver some of the fake elector documents to Vice President Mike Pence shortly before the joint session of Congress.

Chapter 3.5 - On December 14th, the Fake Electors Meet and Vote (The January 6th Report) Feb 13, 2023

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On December 14th, using instructions provided by Kenneth Chesebro, the fake Trump electors gathered and participated in signing ceremonies in all seven States. All seven of these invalid sets of electoral votes were then transmitted to Washington, DC. This section describes how some were encouraged to maintain secrecy or even hide overnight to try and legally be in the proper place to sign the faked documents.

Chapter 3.4 - Some of the Proposed Fake Electors Express Concerns About the Plan (The January 6th Report) Feb 10, 2023

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Not all of the Republican electoral college nominees were on board with the fake elector plan. Some expressed that they had been misled by the Trump team, while others had deep concerns and went ahead with the plan anyway. This section recognizes more than a dozen people who dropped out from participating in the plan.

Chapter 3.3 - The Campaign Legal Team Bows Out, and Giuliani Steps In (The January 6th Report) Feb 09, 2023

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Campaign lawyers as well as the Office of White House Counsel expressed concern over the plan to have fake electors submit their votes for President Trump. Legal staffers reduced their involvement in the fake elector effort when they felt there wasn't a feasible scenario where the courts could decide that President Trump actually won any of the States he contested. This section explains how Rudy Giuliani and Kenneth Chesebro led the effort to organize the fake elector plan at the direction of President Trump.

Chapter 3.2 - President Trump and the Campaign Adopt the Fake Elector Scheme (The January 6th Report) Feb 08, 2023

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In early December, the Trump Campaign took note of Kenneth Chesebro's fake elector plan and began to put it into action. In early December, Mark Meadows forwarded a copy of Chesebro's November 18, 2020, memo to Jason Miller to set up a meeting. By December 7th or 8th, it appeared that President Trump had decided to pursue the fake elector plan and was driving it.

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