The leaks of Donald Trump’s desperate efforts to try to hold to power are spilling out with him gone from the White House…
This one involves a plan to fire Trump acting Attorney General Rosen back then and have some crazy assed Trump loyalist Jeffery Clark step in and ‘order’ Georgia (Republican!) officials to disregard the actual vote for whatever President Trump wanted…
The sceme was so far fetched that when it was presented to Justice Dept senior staff?
Then threatened to resign enmasse like the Nixon Saturday Night political massacre that sealed Nixon’s political faith…
Clark has denied that action occurred….
The Republican US Attorney for the Atalanta ended up quitting due to the unrelenting pressure to try illegally pressure state officials to try and ‘find’ votes for Trump….
I have said all along at this place that America does NOT put Presidential level politicians in jail…
But?
It IS looking more and more that Donald Trump might be the first one to earn that distinction…
I just feel there is gonna be more of this coming to light….
MUCH More…..
The Justice Department’s top leaders listened in stunned silence this month: One of their peers, they were told, had devised a plan with President Donald J. Trump to oust Jeffrey A. Rosen as acting attorney general and wield the department’s power to force Georgia state lawmakers to overturn its presidential election results.
The unassuming lawyer who worked on the plan, Jeffrey Clark, had been devising ways to cast doubt on the election results and to bolster Mr. Trump’s continuing legal battles and the pressure on Georgia politicians. Because Mr. Rosen had refused the president’s entreaties to carry out those plans, Mr. Trump was about to decide whether to fire Mr. Rosen and replace him with Mr. Clark.
The department officials, convened on a conference call, then asked each other: What will you do if Mr. Rosen is dismissed?
The answer was unanimous. They would resign.
Their informal pact ultimately helped persuade Mr. Trump to keep Mr. Rosen in place, calculating that a furor over mass resignations at the top of the Justice Department would eclipse any attention on his baseless accusations of voter fraud. Mr. Trump’s decision came only after Mr. Rosen and Mr. Clark made their competing cases to him in a bizarre White House meeting that two officials compared with an episode of Mr. Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice,” albeit one that could prompt a constitutional crisis….
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When Mr. Trump said on Dec. 14 that Attorney General William P. Barr was leaving the department, some officials thought that he might allow Mr. Rosen a short reprieve before pressing him about voter fraud. After all, Mr. Barr would be around for another week.
Instead, Mr. Trump summoned Mr. Rosen to the Oval Office the next day. He wanted the Justice Department to file legal briefs supporting his allies’ lawsuits seeking to overturn his election loss….
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As Mr. Trump focused increasingly on Georgia, a state he lost narrowly to Mr. Biden, he complained to Justice Department leaders that the U.S. attorney in Atlanta, Byung J. Pak, was not trying to find evidence for false election claims pushed by Mr. Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and others. Mr. Donoghue warned Mr. Pak that the president was now fixated on his office, and that it might not be tenable for him to continue to lead it, according to two people familiar with the conversation.
That conversation and Mr. Trump’s efforts to pressure Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” him votes compelled Mr. Pak to abruptly resign this month…..
image…Ting Shen/NY Times