Georgia's Attorney General's Certification Procedure

On December 15, the defendant summoned the incoming acting attorney general, the incoming acting deputy attorney general and others to the Oval Office. The Justice Department officials specifically refuted the defendant's claim about State Farm Arena explaining to him that the activity shown on the tape co-conspirator one had used was benign. In a phone call on December 27, the defendant again pressed the unfounded claims regarding State Farm Arena and the two top Justice Department officials again rebutted the allegations. On January 2, four days before Congress's certification proceeding, the defendant and others called Georgia's Secretary of State to induce him to alter Georgia's popular vote count. During the call, the defendant lied to the Georgia Secretary