Trump Feared Only What He Himself Had To Lose With 'Murderous' Election Move: Witness

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Trump Feared Only What He Himself Had To Lose With 'Murderous' Election Move: Witness
Trump seriously considered replacing the acting attorney general with a supporter who had a plan to try to throw out 2020 election results.
Mary Papenfuss
03/05/2022 12:02am EST


Donald Trump reportedly wasn’t concerned about pulling what was described to him as a national political “murder-suicide” move by upending the 2020 presidential election. What he wanted to know was if he had anything to lose, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue told the House select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot.

Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Justice Department officials met with Trump in the Oval Office and railed against a post-election plan from Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, a Trump supporter who was also in the meeting. Clark wanted to distribute letters to state legislatures falsely saying that the election may have been stolen and urging them to reconsider their certified election results, according to Donoghue’s account of the conversation.

“That letter that this guy [Clark] wants to send — that letter is a murder-suicide pact,” Cipollone told Trump, according to a transcript of Donoghue’s interview with the Jan. 6 committee. “It’s going to damage everyone who touches it. And we should have nothing to do with that letter.”

The startling account was included in the committee’s response Thursday to a lawsuit from Trump’s “coup memo” lawyer John Eastman, who is seeking to withhold documents from the committee.

Trump seemed unfazed by the warning and was worried only about himself, according to Donoghue. He was seriously considering replacing then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Clark so Clark could carry out his plan. Rosen had recently replaced William Barr, who had resigned as attorney general amid his own dispute with Trump over the election results.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-do-i-have-to-lose-trump-murder-suicide-jan-6_n_6222bb53e4b04a0545d69eb6

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Has that waste of skin ever acted out of anything other than self-interest?

Rhetorical question, obviously.

[erronis]

13. Good question and nice turn of phrase.

If we were still lighting our houses with whale oil his blubber might not be wasted.... Ew!

[Wicked Blue]

2. Trump has always thought everything was about himself, and himself only

He's the poster boy for malignant narcissim

[ProfessorGAC]

3. File Under "Well, Duh!"

Hardly a revelation.

[Scrivener7]

4. And that was fourteen months ago...

That's a pretty long-ass Law and Order episode.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Please adjust your view so that it doesn't go through a fictional perspective. . . . nt

[erronis]

14. So well said.

We all tend to be influenced by what we see portrayed on the screen or in books. Fact is stranger than fiction - and real.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Trump is the mirror image of Putin, willing to sacrifice every single Russian for his aggrandizement

Stupid MAGATS don't even realize that they'd be going down the shitter with the rest of us if Trump ever returns to office.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. Blows my mind, too.

"Stupid MAGATS don't even realize that they'd be going down the shitter with the rest of us if Trump ever returns to office."

They are so concerned about their personal freedumbs, but happily willing to kiss their freedoms goodbye.

[Mr. Ected]

9. Not to give them a pass, but they've been manipulated by their media

They know exactly what buttons to hit to keep them distracted from what they're really doing.

It's like the Russian people, unaware of what Putin is doing in Ukraine.

[pandr32]

12. They don't realize they are jeopardizing their own freedoms

It's like two people out at sea in a small boat and one guy drills a hole in order to sink the other--too stupid to realize he just doomed himself, too.

[sop]

7. Drip, drip, drip.

With every new revelation, Trump's criminality becomes clearer. What's it going to take for his MAGATs to finally come to their senses.

[BadgerKid]

8. He'd better get barred from public office

Or else the nightmare won’t end.

[Traildogbob]

11. Steel barred!

[XacerbatedDem]

17. With a nice orange jumpsuit, his favorite color!

[lonely bird]

16. The only problem is...

There are likely smarter people who are just as psychotic as Trump that the MAGAts would support.

[twodogsbarking]

15. The only punishment for Trump is prison.

Everything else is pointless.

[L. Coyote]

18. We are fools if we accept Bill Barr's version of how his tenure ended.

That version is sanitized of all criminality.

[orangecrush]

19. Putin's mini me

Please let this pos go to prison.

[TeamProg]

20. LOCK THE FUCKER UP NOW !!