A chilling new report proves the U.S. can't afford to stop talking about Trump's election scheme
During that meeting, he confronted senior Justice Department officials with his plan of replacing acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official who was not well-known at the time but had proven himself a Trump loyalist willing to pursue groundless claims of fraud.
Trump and Clark’s ideas prompted harsh pushback, and top DOJ officials threatened that they and others would resign if Trump moved ahead with the plan. Remarkably, they were joined by Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who said he and top deputy Patrick Philbin would also resign in protest. Cipollone labeled Trump’s plan a “murder-suicide pact,” according to the report. Trump reportedly only backed down in the final 15 minutes of the meeting.
Once again, we see exactly why the congressional investigations into suspected presidential misbehavior are so important. The more details we learn about how Trump handled his effort to manufacture the"big lie," the more it becomes evident that this was a serious effort, even if not prosecuted by a very serious person.
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