Joseph Weber and Nicholas Ballasy
Just the NewsWed, 09 Dec 2020 13:41 UTC
The 27 GOP congressmen made the request in a letter Wednesday to Trump
Dozens of House Republicans have joined in an effort to urge President Trump to get Attorney General
William Barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate election irregularities.
The 27 GOP congressmen made the request for the appointment of a special counsel in a letter Wednesday to Trump. Texas Rep. Lance Gooden sent the letter with just his signature to the president last week and later gathered more signatures from GOP lawmakers in support of the effort.
Gooden sent the letter after Barr said the Justice Department has yet to find voter fraud in the Nov. 3 presidential election significant enough to change the outcome of the results.
"The American people deserve a definitive resolution to the uncertainty hovering over the outcome of our election, but legitimate questions of voter fraud remain unanswered," reads the letter, obtained by Just the News.
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12.9.2020 - Gooden Letter to President Trump.pdfAmong the other GOP members signing the letter are Louie Gohmert, of Texas, and Mo Brooks, of Alabama.
"The Department of Justice has been asked on multiple occasions to launch an investigation into this matter, but inaction from the Department along with public comments made by the Attorney General indicate a lack of willingness to investigate the irregularities your campaign and other elected officials across the nation have alleged," the letter also reads. "The appointment of a Special Counsel would establish a team of investigators whose sole responsibility is to uncover the truth and provide the certainty America needs."
Comment: And one of the more outspoken Reps of the GOP, Jim Jordan,
came out strong as well:
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on President Donald Trump not to concede the Nov. 3 election.
In response to a statement on Newsmax about whether he should, Jordan said, "No, of course not, and you remember this is a president [who] gets things done."
"This is a president who does what he told the American people he was going to do, accomplishes what he was elected to do and this is just one more example of him getting something done that's valuable and important to the country," Jordan said.
Going further, Jordan said that "instinctively, everyone knows there are problems with this election."
Since Nov. 3, Trump said that the election was stolen from him and has mounted a legal campaign to overturn the results in several states. Meanwhile, his lawyers have lobbied the state legislatures and governors to either not certify the results of the election or for state lawmakers to reclaim their constitutional authority to call electors.
The Epoch Times has not called the election for either Trump or Democrat Joe Biden.
Jordan, the ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, suggested that Trump performed too well in other places and among certain demographics to lose.
"We won 27 out of the 27 toss-up states. He increases his votes with Hispanic Americans, African-Americans. State legislatures that Republicans control we kept all those plus, increased those numbers," Jordan said. "You can just go down the line, he won 19 of the 20 bellwether counties. He won Ohio by eight, Iowa by eight, Florida by three, and yet somehow doesn't win. So we know we need to look at all this. There is a number of lawsuits that are pending, the one that was filed in Texas today regarding several states. Let's see how that all shakes out. Let's get to the bottom of this for the well-being of the country."
Comment: And one of the more outspoken Reps of the GOP, Jim Jordan, came out strong as well: