It helped spark a special counsel probe, which was what it was designed to do at Donald Trump's, quote, efforts to overturn the 2020 election. That obviously was a lie. Grassley now signed the new documents he received from the Department of Justice and Garland's approval of the sensitive investigation matter on April 5 of 2022, recommended by the Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco. And what it did was authorize the FBI's Washington Field Office to launch a, quote, full investigation into what officials described as a articulable factual basis indicating the existence of a federal crime, quote, unquote. (09:11–09:26)
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Asserts that Grassley received and signed documents showing Garland's approval of the investigation on April 5, 2022.
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