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UPDATE 1-Trump urged Justice Dept. to overturn vote results - House panel chair

(Updates with more details about the notes)

By Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON July 30 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump pressured the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, according to internal documents released by the chair of the House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee on Friday.

The handwritten notes, taken by then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, paint a damning picture of Trump as he desperately sought to get the Justice Department to take the unprecedented step of intervening in the 2020 presidential election, which he lost.

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The notes details a Dec. 27 phone call in which Jeffrey Rosen, who was appointed as acting attorney general a few days later, is quoted as telling Trump: "Understand that the DOJ can't + won't snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election."

"Don't expect you to do that," Trump replied. "Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen," in a reference to Republicans.

The fact that the Justice Department allowed the handwritten notes to be turned over the congressional investigators marks a dramatic shift from the Trump administration, which repeatedly invoked executive privilege as a means of skirting congressional scrutiny. (Reporting By Sarah N. Lynch; additional reporting by Paul Grant; Editing by Lisa Lambert and Alistair Bell)