The battle of the Jeffs

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.@beyerstein: "It is truly frightening to contemplate what would have happened if #Trump had handed the country’s vast federal law enforcement apparatus to a conspiracy theorist on the eve of the coup." https://editorialboard.com/the-battle-of-the-jeffs/… #UnitedStates #January6th

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The battle of the Jeffs
The fate of the Justice Department and Trump’s coup.
2:04 PM · Jun 25, 2022

https://www.editorialboard.com/the-battle-of-the-jeffs/

Thursday’s J6 committee hearing recounted the historic Battle of the Jeffs, a titanic bureaucratic struggle between the former president and the top brass at the Department of Justice that nearly put a frothing MAGA conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation’s top law enforcement agency on the eve of the J6 coup attempt.

Three days before the insurrection, the former president sat down with acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen, top lawyers from the Department of Justice and an obscure environmental lawyer from the department’s Civil Division named Jeff Clark. Trump had decided to replace Jeff Rosen with Jeff Clark.

This was an alarming development because Clark, whose home was raided by the FBI Wednesday, had no qualifications to lead the DOJ besides his fervent belief in MAGA election conspiracy theories and his fanatical personal loyalty to Trump. Trump outlined his plan during the meeting. He wanted Clark to put the Justice Department’s stamp of approval on the fake allegations of election fraud by pretending to investigate them and ordering state legislators to do the same.

“Just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me,” Trump told the lawyers, displaying once again his disregard for the truth.

The committee heard that Clark had gone rogue in the days prior, flouting DOJ rules and the direct orders of his superiors to meet with Trump and Pennsylvania Congressman Scott Perry, a Republican, at the White House to plot to overturn the election.

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