The then defense minister
Christopher Miller
, at the request of the White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, phoned the US military attaché in Rome to investigate the rumor that
Italian satellites (Leonardo's ed.) Had transferred votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden
.
Miller himself testified in a deposition transmitted in the courtroom by the commission investigating the assault on the Capitol.
The rumor, which turned out to be a conspiracy theory, was called "sheer madness" by former Justice Ministry number two Richard Donoghue.
Donald Trump
was so frustrated by the Justice Department's inaction in the face of his allegations of electoral fraud that he
attempted to torpedo interim attorney general Jeffrey Rosen
, replacing him with an obscure but complacent executive from the same department.
This was confirmed by Rosen himself, one of the witnesses called to testify in the fifth public hearing of the parliamentary commission on January 6, which today focused on the former president's pressure on the ministry of justice to overturn the vote.