Trump planned to oust acting AG to overturn Georgia election results: report

[babylonsister]

Trump planned to oust acting AG to overturn Georgia election results: report
By Tal Axelrod - 01/22/21 09:41 PM EST


Former President Trump sought to oust his acting attorney general in a bid to overturn the presidential election results in Georgia, according to a new bombshell report in The New York Times.

Trump reportedly planned to replace then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a lawyer at the Justice Department, in an effort to apply pressure to Georgia politicians to overturn the results of the race there. Rosen had refused to back Trump’s disputed claims that voter fraud had cost him the election, drawing the president’s ire.

Trump had also pressed Rosen to appoint special counsels to investigate what he said were irregularities in the election, though he never provided any evidence for his claims. Among the investigations he wanted launched was one into Dominion Voting Systems, a company that made the election equipment Trump’s backers falsely said had ties with Venezuela to prevent Trump’s reelection.

The plot failed after a group of Department of Justice (DOJ) officials uncovered the plan and threatened to resign en masse if Trump and Clark followed through with it. Rosen stayed in his position for the remainder of the administration.

The Times’s report was based on four former Trump administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/535510-trump-planned-to-oust-acting-ag-to-overturn-georgia-election-results

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. K&R

[James48]

2. Take names

And have these four testify in the impeachment hearing- as reinvent witnesses that Trump caused disruption within the DOJ. There should be more charges brought against Trump. This is conspiracy for sedition, and attempted interference in the function of a federal officer in an election.

18 U.S. Code § 595 - Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/595

[Pachamama]

3. Trump is going to be convicted and removed and never hold office again

Trump is going to be in Jail

[babylonsister]

6. From your lips-doesn't look good. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. What else has he done that we don't know about yet?

I'm sure we will find a lot of creepy-crawlies under the rocks that remain to be overturned.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Odds of conviction just went way up. Nt