Ex-AG Repeatedly REFUSE to Say Whether Trump Asked Him to Overturn Election Under Oath

[DonViejo]

By Tommy Christopher May 12th, 2021, 12:36 pm

Former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen repeatedly refused to say whether then-President Donald Trump asked him to assist in overturning the 2020election results, but moments later was willing to rule out other subjects from his private discussions with Trump.

At Wednesday’s House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Democratic Virginia Congressman Gerry Connolly pressed Rosen about his communications with Trump prior to the insurrection.

“Prior to January 6th, were you asked or instructed by President Trump to take any action at the Department to advance election fraud claims or to seek to overturn any part of the 2020 election results?” Connolly asked.

“Well congressman, as I just alluded to in your prior question, I can tell you what the actions of the department were,” Rosen said as Connolly objected, and added that he could not testify “about private conversations with the president one way or the other.”

“We had an unprecedented insurrection that led to seven deaths. Five years and two suicides, and you are saying that this is a privileged communication?” Connolly said.

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[spanone]

1. They. All. Lie.

[SergeStorms]

2. The republican rule of law.

Laws apply to Democrats only, and that's our rule.

[KPN]

17. THIS.

[aggiesal]

21. I'm stealing this! n/t

[gratuitous]

3. Mr. Rosen? Who's your client?

It may come as a shock to you, but your client isn't and wasn't and never was Donald Trump. Your client is the United States of America. What you discussed as the then-acting Attorney General with the then-President isn't privileged. We the people are entitled to know what you two were talking about.

[smirkymonkey]

30. I can't, for the life of me, understand why so many people are so blindly loyal to this sleazy,

loathsome buffoon. He is such a NOTHING! He's worse than nothing, he's a sucking black hole of depravity.

[lindysalsagal]

4. If congress does nothing, and this includes Speaker Pelosi, then they're complicit.

I'm done. I'm so done.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. That's my feeling too. It's helping me to come to terms with things.

[KPN]

18. Ditto. Because it won't matter. We are on our own anyway.

[Boomerproud]

5. I hope Connelly wasn't the only with the hard questions.

[Tomconroy]

6. I suspect that we haven't heard a fraction

Of the stuff that Trump was doing from November to January to steal the election.

[Atticus]

7. Was he allowed to leave? Is there no such thing as contempt of Congress?

Do they need a "deputy sergeant at arms" to assist with frog-marching?

[TheRealNorth]

13. That is what I was thinking

The SOB is in contempt. He can either plead the 5th or answer the question.

[BSdetect]

8. I take this refusal as a yes. Thank yuo.

[patphil]

10. By refusing to answer the question, he has answered it.

And the answer appears to be "Yes".
The question was part of an investigation into criminal activities by the Former President.
As the 2nd highest law enforcement officer in the land at the time, he is duty bound to expose any such criminal activities if he is aware of them.
He does not represent the President, he represents the Nation.

[TheRealNorth]

15. But the thing is

If the MSM reports it that way, the RW noise machine will whine that there is no evidence.

They know how to play the media. Something our side still haven't figured out yet.

[uponit7771]

24. +1,

[Progressive Jones]

27. Exactly. He danced around the question. If the honest answer was "No", that's what he'd say. nt

[DanieRains]

11. Laws Don't Apply To Scum Like Trump's Criminal Gang

If Rosen wasn't a crook, Trump wouldn't have hired him.

[Champp]

12. Outrageous republiqon avoidance of responsibility

squirmy worms, all of them

[The Unmitigated Gall]

14. Scumbags...everywhere...Fuckpublicans

[NightWatcher]

16. They told trump there was no fraud, then they started making it harder to vote because of all that

fraud?


Do I have this right?

[Evolve Dammit]

19. My disgust meter is pegging...

[lastlib]

26. On a scale of 1 to 10, I am.......

at "Blowing the F*cking Roof Off"

[Evolve Dammit]

29. Me too. U.S. cannot afford inaction to investigate and hold hearings. Cheney is right about that.

[aggiesal]

20. Isn't he the Attorney General for the U.S.? He's acting like he's ...

the personal Attorney General for Pendejo45.

[Delmette2.0]

22. I read somewhere...probably here.

That Presidential privilege does not apply if it involves a crime.

Is that correct?

[SunSeeker]

23. Rosen is complicit scum. nt

[edhopper]

25. Trump is not his client

and his talk is not privileged.
AG Garland should say that the conversation is not protected, especially if the President was asking him to commit a crime.

[Marcuse]

28. Reminiscent of when Barr refused to answer the now VPOTUS re his being ordered to investigate.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

31. How could he overturn it?

It's the states and Congress that validate the election. The AG has nothing to do with it.