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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. Trumps 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. Trumps 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 presidents efforts to undo them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/us/politics/scott-perry-trump-justice-department-election.html
This is treason
liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)After that failed he was just going to throw a coup.
CurtEastPoint
(18,646 posts)Saboburns
(2,807 posts)And until they do they will continue to crime.