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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 wasnt 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 Donoghues account of the conversation.
The startling account was included in the committees response Thursday to a lawsuit from Trumps 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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EYESORE 9001
(25,973 posts)Rhetorical question, obviously.
erronis
(15,328 posts)If we were still lighting our houses with whale oil his blubber might not be wasted.... Ew!
Wicked Blue
(5,851 posts)He's the poster boy for malignant narcissim
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Hardly a revelation.
Scrivener7
(51,004 posts)That's a pretty long-ass Law and Order episode.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)erronis
(15,328 posts)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
(9,670 posts)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
(24,610 posts)"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
(9,670 posts)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
(11,611 posts)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
(10,243 posts)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
(4,555 posts)Or else the nightmare wont end.
Traildogbob
(8,797 posts)XacerbatedDem
(511 posts)lonely bird
(1,688 posts)There are likely smarter people who are just as psychotic as Trump that the MAGAts would support.
twodogsbarking
(9,805 posts)Everything else is pointless.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)That version is sanitized of all criminality.
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)Please let this pos go to prison.