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Helen Kennedy
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This coup report is compulsive reading. I thought I had been pretty up to date on the behind the scenes insanity of Trumps last few weeks - but wow. https://judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Interim%20Staff%20Report%20FINAL.pdf
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7:32 AM · Oct 7, 2021
Helen Kennedy
@HelenKennedy
This coup report is compulsive reading. I thought I had been pretty up to date on the behind the scenes insanity of Trumps last few weeks - but wow. https://judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Interim%20Staff%20Report%20FINAL.pdf
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7:32 AM · Oct 7, 2021
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Interim%20Staff%20Report%20FINAL.pdf
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A. The Senate Judiciary Committees Investigation
On January 22, 2021, the New York Times reported that Jeffrey Bossert Clark, the former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justices (DOJ) Civil Division, sought to involve DOJ in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and plotted with then- President Trump to oust Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who reportedly refused Trumps demands.1 On January 23, 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had urged DOJ to file a lawsuit in the Supreme Court seeking to invalidate President Bidens victory.2 These reports followed Trumps months-long effort to undermine the results of the election, which culminated in the violent insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary immediately launched an investigation into Trumps reported efforts to enlist DOJ in his election subversion scheme. On January 23, 2021, the Committee asked DOJ to produce documents related to these efforts. DOJ cooperated with the Committees request, producing several hundred pages of calendars, emails, and other documents in the ensuing months.
On May 20, 2021, following DOJs production of emails from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to Rosen asking DOJ to investigate several debunked election fraud claims, the Committee asked the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for additional Trump White House records related to Trumps attempts to secure DOJs help in overturning the election results. The Committees request sought White House records between November 3, 2020 and the end of Trumps presidency related to meetings and communications between and among White House and DOJ officials. NARA has not responded to date, and has represented to the Committee that the delay in transitioning electronic Trump records from the White House to NARA may prevent the Committee from obtaining a response for several more months.
In addition to obtaining and reviewing documents, the Committee interviewed key former DOJ personnel, including Rosen, former Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, and former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Byung Jin (BJay) Pak. DOJ and the White House authorized these witnesses to testify about their internal communications without restriction, citing the Committees compelling legislative interests ... in understanding these extraordinary events: namely, the question whether former President Trump sought to cause the Department to use its law enforcement and litigation authorities to advance his personal political interests with respect to the results of the 2020 presidential election.3
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Subverting Justice - New Senate Judiciary Report on Coup attempt released today (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2021
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Champp
(2,114 posts)1. Republicans attempted a violent take down of America
But the Republican worship of their so-called "Commander-in-chief" was a dumb mistake. He's actually a lying, thieving, draft-dodging, casino hustler. Not much of a leader.
The Republican belief that their Casino Hustler and his Russian dark-ops Komrades could lead them to destroy America was about as effective as their belief that shunning masks and vaccines, and eating horse medicine, would somehow keep them and their families from COVID. Stupid, UnAmerican, and Unwise in the extreme.
malaise
(268,913 posts)2. Lock up this fucking criminal and his accomplices
That is all
spanone
(135,816 posts)4. ⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧
2naSalit
(86,528 posts)7. Immediately.
They are a clear and present danger to the well being of the public, perhaps worse than the viral pandemic.
Budi
(15,325 posts)5. K & R cripe. And this is just the 1st paragraph!
Jeffrey Bossert Clark, the former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justices (DOJ) Civil Division, sought to involve DOJ in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and plotted with then- President Trump to oust Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who reportedly refused Trumps demands.
*On January 23, 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had urged DOJ to file a lawsuit in the Supreme Court seeking to invalidate President Bidens victory.
*These reports followed Trumps months-long effort to undermine the results of the election, which culminated in the violent insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
...I wonder, had he been sussessful in getting it to the SC, how they actually would have ruled.
Obviously Trump would have made their ruling conditional, with warning of threats.
Trump stayed true to his mob boss way of life.
*On January 23, 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had urged DOJ to file a lawsuit in the Supreme Court seeking to invalidate President Bidens victory.
*These reports followed Trumps months-long effort to undermine the results of the election, which culminated in the violent insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
...I wonder, had he been sussessful in getting it to the SC, how they actually would have ruled.
Obviously Trump would have made their ruling conditional, with warning of threats.
Trump stayed true to his mob boss way of life.
Nevilledog
(51,069 posts)6. Kick