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CHAPTER 4

Former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen testifies before the Select Committee on June 23, 2022.
(Photo by House Creative Services)

I observed, I think it was on December 1st, that—you know, I believe you can't live in a world where the incumbent administration stays in power based on its view, unsupported by specific evidence, that the election—that there was fraud in the election.[82]

Around mid-day on December 14th, Attorney General Barr met with President Trump and Meadows in the Oval Office to discuss his resignation.[83] When he arrived, and even before Barr could mention his resignation, President Trump began speaking at length about the recently released Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG) report on Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan.[84] While the Attorney General had been briefed on the allegations in Antrim County and did not find them credible, he promised the President that he would have DOJ investigate them.[85] The Attorney General then told President Trump that he had come for a separate reason and wished to speak to the President privately, so Meadows left.[86]

Barr told President Trump that it was clear the President was dissatisfied with him as Attorney General and that he had decided to resign.[87] President Trump accepted his resignation and asked Barr who would