Shocking new Trump-DOJ revelations should shape the Jan. 6 investigation

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
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Key development: Trump's efforts to get DOJ to subvert the election will be examined by the 1/6 committee, @RepRaskin tells me. This establishes intent: After failing to subvert it via legal manipulation, Trump tried to do so via mob violence. My latest:

Opinion | Shocking new Trump-DOJ revelations should shape the Jan. 6 investigation
How Trump's efforts to corrupt the Justice Department help explain the insurrection.
washingtonpost.com
7:39 AM · Aug 9, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/09/trump-doj-revelations-jan-6-investigation/

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But it gets worse. The latest revelation, from Rosen’s private testimony, is that those machinations occurred amid direct collaboration with Trump. As the Times reports, Rosen disclosed that Clark had been “engaging in unauthorized conversations” with Trump about how the department might “publicly cast doubt on President Biden’s victory.”

This involvement of Trump is crying out for more scrutiny. And, importantly, Democrats see this scrutiny as central to understanding not just his election subversion effort, but also his incitement of the Jan. 6 attack.

That’s because these revelations go to the core of Trump’s true intent. The idea was to accomplish through intimidation and violence what all other efforts had failed to do: Disrupt the count of electors in Congress and the official certification of Trump’s loss.

“Trump wanted to use the Department of Justice to delegitimize the election,” Raskin told me. Raskin noted that those earlier machinations help “reveal his intent to overthrow our democratic process.”

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[Champp]

1. Republican traitors deserve a full measure of justice

Lock them up.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. This is QUITE the damning piece.............

the trail for investigation and charges is clearly spelled out - now we need someone to JUST DO IT!!!!

[lagomorph777]

3. "machinations occurred amid direct collaboration with Trump" - wow, that's some tortured syntax.

How about just saying it directly: "Trump coordinated the attempts to subvert the election."

WaPo, he's gone. You don't have to tiptoe around the truth anymore. You won't lose access to the briefing room.

[malaise]

5. The Slobfather laid it all out

It is there for everyone to see - every part of this failed coup

[FakeNoose]

4. Chump never did anything alone, secretly

He always has an audience, and he does everything for maximum effect. So there HAVE to be witnesses to things he said and did leading up to the attempted coup. Starting with Rudy Giuliani who instigated the talk about "Democrats stole the election" ever since November 3rd.

But really it was the whole group of them that went along with it and planned it. Chump knew he was going to lose back in July of last year. Those who didn't agree with "Stop the Steal" - like Bill Barr - got fired and replaced with toadies. Everything Chump did points to his own guilt.

Lock him up!