01-23-2021, 01:32 PM
That didnt' take too long, two weeks?
What will the next ones look like?
We aint taking disney stuff here and no, you wont find this anywhere on fox news.
Trump, Justice Department lawyer said to have plotted to oust acting attorney generalThe lawyer who worked on the plan had been devising ways to cast doubt on the election results and to bolster Trump's continuing legal battles and the pressure on Georgia politicians.
By Katie Benner New York TimesJanuary 22, 2021 — 8:30pm
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's top leaders listened in stunned silence this month: One of their peers, they were told, had devised a plan with President Donald Trump to oust Jeffrey Rosen as acting attorney general and wield the department's power to force Georgia state lawmakers to overturn its presidential election results.The unassuming lawyer who worked on the plan, Jeffrey Clark, had been devising ways to cast doubt on the election results and to bolster Trump's continuing legal battles and the pressure on Georgia politicians. Because Rosen had refused the president's entreaties to carry out those plans, Trump was about to decide whether to fire Rosen and replace him with Clark.
The department officials, convened on a conference call, then asked one another: What will you do if Rosen is dismissed?
The answer was unanimous. They would resign.
Their informal pact ultimately helped persuade Trump to keep Rosen in place, calculating that a furor over mass resignations at the top of the Justice Department would eclipse any attention on his baseless accusations of voter fraud. Trump's decision came only after Rosen and Clark made their competing cases to him in a bizarre White House meeting that two officials compared with an episode of Trump's reality show "The Apprentice," albeit one that could prompt a constitutional crisis.
The previously unknown chapter was the culmination of the president's long-running effort to batter the Justice Department into advancing his personal agenda. He also pressed Rosen to appoint special counsels, including one who would look into Dominion Voting Systems, a maker of election equipment that Trump's allies had falsely said was working with Venezuela to flip votes from Trump to Joe Biden.
This account of the department's final days under Trump's leadership is based on interviews with four former Trump administration officials who asked not to be named because of fear of retaliation.
Clark said that this account contained inaccuracies but did not specify, adding that he could not discuss any conversations with Trump or Justice Department lawyers. "Senior Justice Department lawyers, not uncommonly, provide legal advice to the White House as part of our duties," he said. "All my official communications were consistent with law."
Clark also noted that he was the lead signatory on a Justice Department request last month asking a federal judge to reject a lawsuit that sought to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the election.
Trump declined to comment. An adviser said that Trump has consistently argued that the justice system should investigate "rampant election fraud that has plagued our system for years."
The adviser added that "any assertion to the contrary is false and being driven by those who wish to keep the system broken."
A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment, as did Rosen
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https://www.startribune.com/trump-justic...600014077/
