New records show how fiercely Trump DOJ loyalists fought to help -- and resist -- his effort to steal

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the 2020 election

With much of the news media focused on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) Tuesday night, ABC News published a Dec. 28, 2020, letter from Jeffrey Clark, then the acting head of the Justice Department's civil division, to acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and his acting deputy, Richard Donoghue. Clark's letter is "the single most damning piece of evidence yet" on former President Donald Trump's "comprehensive" and "dangerous" attempt to overturn his 2020 loss, Chris Hayes said on MSNBC Wednesday night.

Clark wanted Rosen and Donoghue to sign his draft letter telling Georgia's leaders the Justice Department "is investigating various irregularities in the 2020 election" and has "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states." If Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) declined to call a special session to address "this important and urgent matter," Clark's draft letter claimed, the Justice Department believes "the Georgia General Assembly has implied authority under the Constitution of the United States to call itself into special session" and appoint its own presidential electors.

Clark's letter was, "in other words, a road map to overthrowing the will of voters," The Washington Post's Philip Bump wrote Wednesday. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) told MSNBC on Wednesday night that Clark had drafted similar letters to six states Trump lost, encouraging Republicans to overturn President Biden's win.

Rosen and Donoghue flatly refused. "There is no chance that I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this," Donoghue emailed Clark a few hours after receiving the draft. Rosen added later he "confirmed again today that I am not prepared to sign such a letter."

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[zipplewrath]

1. They will find those that will

This whole effort was as much a practice session as it was a serious attempt to turn the election. They were testing what would work and what would not, so that they could change the laws so that in the future they could do what the courts, and the law, would currently not allow them to do. One of the things they learned was that they must put into key offices the people that will cooperate with these efforts so that they don't have to go to court to oppose their own government officers. The ACLU can sue their butts off, but if time runs out on the process, it is designed to be irreversible.

And the whole effort in Arizona's "recount" isn't about actually changing anything, but it is about learning for future elections what they can use to declare an election invalid and have legislatures replace the voters choice with their own gerrymandered legislatures choices.