Sen Whitehouse re: Election Subversion-"You can actually connect the President ... to the scheme."

[kpete]

Sen. Whitehouse tells NBC the Judiciary Cmte. is aware of the extent of Trump's involvement in election subversion efforts.

"You can actually connect the President ... to the scheme."

He later adds: "Was this really just one little guy in the DOJ with a wild idea? I doubt it."

Link to tweet

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CHUCK TODD:

I want to start with -- I know that you were limited in your investigation because you're the Judiciary Committee and this was about the actions of the Department of Justice. So, how complete of a picture do you think you have of what President Trump did and what more would you like to know?

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE:

Well, we have a very complete picture of the extent to which Trump was personally involved in this. This is a question in which you can actually connect the president of the United States to the scheme. The second thing that we know is that it focused very heavily on Georgia. So, that relates and feathers into the Georgia prosecution that's underway, I should say the investigation that's underway, down in Fulton County. Those two things link up. What we don't know is who was really behind this. The text of the transcript and the body English of the witnesses suggests that they had very little regard for this character Jeffrey Clark, who was nominally going to be the new attorney general. They doubted his qualifications to even have that role. So, it's a possibility, I suppose, that he saw this moment and grabbed it, but it's an equally real possibility that he was a cog in a larger machine and we've got a lot of work to do to figure out how that machine ran through this period, who was behind it, where the money came from, and what's been going on.

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/news/meet-press-october-10-2021-n1281185

[Hotler]

1. And so? ...... nt

[SoCalDavidS]

4. Exactly. nt

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Someone tell Chuck Toad, corporate media frontman, Sedition Day IS about justice, so

the judiciary committee is NOT limited in its investigation.

He only asked that cause his corporate media masters and big big pay check signers are wanting a limited investigation by the Judiciary Committee, cause maybe at some point the investigation will turn to the corporate media’s role in Sedition Day.

Those that matter know much much more than we the people know, and that’s the way it should be until all the files have been fully collated.

The sword will fall, it will fall swiftly and the shock and awe will be immense…. my opinion before Xmas.

[Hortensis]

3. :) "Jeffrey Clark asked the attorney general for a lift on the way to topple him."

(WaPo) It was Sunday evening, Jan. 3. Clark, a previously obscure Justice Department official, had caught President Trump’s eye as a willing accomplice in seeking to overturn the election results — a role that Jeffrey Rosen, the acting attorney general, had shown he was unwilling to play.

So Trump, meeting with Clark behind Rosen’s back, had offered to install him in the top job. ... Now, Rosen and Clark were headed to the White House for a hastily scheduled showdown with the president. Could Clark get a ride in the AG’s motorcade?

“Maybe this was ungracious of me, but I declined,” Rosen told Senate Judiciary Committee investigators in an interview transcript released Thursday. ...

... judiciary committee report that offers new details of the slow-motion coup gathering steam inside the Trump administration even before the public insurrection of Jan. 6. The new material underscores the imperative of hearing from Clark himself. What did the president say to him in their private meetings? How did Clark get connected with Rep. Scott Perry, the Pennsylvania Republican who introduced him to Trump? Who else was involved?

“One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election,” Trump said, according to Rosen. Let that sink in: A sitting president, in the Oval Office no less, announcing that he wants an attorney general who will use the Justice Department to undo the will of the voters.

This'd make a hell of a movie if they could only wrap it up in 2 hours. But living it as Whitehouse is doing, ... wow!

[SoCalDavidS]

5. It Would Make A Great Movie

We'll need a record for 50 years from now as to how Democracy finally died in America, and fascism took over.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. Too bad none of this is actually illegal, and the impeachment failed, so herpty-derp, no recourse

Other than to expose it, and hope the voters disapprove.

[SayitAintSo]

7. Trump and ALL his complicit insurrection toadys need to pay

Or we will see worse in 2024.