DOJ's top national security official considered resigning amid Trump's pressure to overturn election
John Demers, the Justice Department official who oversees the national security division, seriously considered resigning in January when then-President Donald Trump ramped up pressure on the department to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
"I didn't know what was going to happen, I thought that there was a real chance that would be my last day in the department," Demers told The Wall Street Journal in an interview.
Demers will leave the department at the end of June. His departure was pre-planned but comes amid news that the DOJ secretly seized the records of Democratic lawmakers and some journalists as part of aggressive leak investigations during the special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
Demers told The Journal that he thought about resigning in early January when Trump was threatening to fire the acting attorney general, Jeff Rosen, for not doing more to overturn the election results. But Demers stayed on because he didn't know who would oversee the agency's day-to-day business if he resigned along with other senior officials.
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