Former President Trump was the subject of two of those inquiries. “Even before the election, he indicated that if he lost it, it would have to be stolen. Gen. William Barr, informed him that there was no credible proof of fraud in the 2020 election. It wasn’t true,” Lofgren said of the U.S. attorneys tasked by Barr to investigate voter fraud claims. She was a staffer to former Democratic Rep. Don Edwards on the House Judiciary Committee in 1974, when the committee prepared articles of impeachment against then-President Nixon.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 13, 2022 16:21 UTC