Pennsylvania Lawmaker Played Key Role in Trump's Plot to Oust Acting Attorney General

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Marc E. Elias
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Despicable conduct by a member of Congress. The Ethics Committee must take action.
Representative Scott Perry first made President Donald J. Trump aware that a relatively obscure Justice Department official was sympathetic to Mr. Trump’s view that the election had been stolen.
Pennsylvania Lawmaker Played Key Role in Trump’s Plot to Oust Acting Attorney General
The involvement of Representative Scott Perry underlined how far the former president was willing to go in using the government to subvert the election, turning to more junior and relatively unknown...
nytimes.com
6:31 PM · Jan 23, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/us/politics/scott-perry-trump-justice-department-election.html

WASHINGTON — When Representative Scott Perry joined his colleagues in a monthslong campaign to undermine the results of the presidential election, promoting “Stop the Steal” events and supporting an attempt to overturn millions of legally cast votes, he often took a back seat to higher-profile loyalists in President Donald J. Trump’s orbit.

But Mr. Perry, an outspoken Pennsylvania Republican, played a significant role in the crisis that played out at the top of the Justice Department this month, when Mr. Trump considered firing the acting attorney general and backed down only after top department officials threatened to resign en masse.

It was Mr. Perry, a member of the hard-line Freedom Caucus, who first made Mr. Trump aware that a relatively obscure Justice Department official, Jeffrey Clark, the acting chief of the civil division, was sympathetic to Mr. Trump’s view that the election had been stolen, according to former administration officials who spoke with Mr. Clark and Mr. Trump.

Mr. Perry introduced the president to Mr. Clark, whose openness to conspiracy theories about election fraud presented Mr. Trump with a welcome change from the acting attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, who stood by the results of the election and had repeatedly resisted the president’s efforts to undo them.

Mr. Perry’s previously unreported role, and the quiet discussions between Mr. Trump and Mr. Clark that followed, underlined how much the former president was willing to use the government to subvert the election, turning to more junior and relatively unknown figures for help as ranking Republicans and cabinet members rebuffed him.

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[blue neen]

1. I knew it had to be Perry.

Traitor.

[msfiddlestix]

2. I'm not familiar with him. Do you live in PA?

I was intrigued when the reporter who broke the story on Chris Hayes last night, she declined to identify which Pennsylvanian Politician it was. Didn't mention which office that individual held. I jumped to Senator Toomey.

Glad to know it wasn't him. He indicated he'd vote to impeach.

[blue neen]

3. Yes, I'm in western PA.

Perry is from the Harrisburg, York, Lancaster area. My congressman is Guy Reschenthaler, another Trump-loving traitor.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. We need to dig all of the MAGAts out of government in order for healing to begin.

[dalton99a]

5. Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), coup plotter