Opinion: The bombshell Jan. 6 report
Opinion by Jennifer Rodgers
The more information that emerges about former President Donald Trump's efforts to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election, the more difficult it becomes for the Department of Justice to avoid investigating the wide array of potentially criminal conduct by the former President between the election and January 6.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's recent blockbuster report added significant details to what was previously known about how Trump tried to subvert DOJ authority by attempting to turn what is meant to be an independent law enforcement agency into a co-conspirator.
Some of the report's damning facts were already known, such as: following the election, Trump pressured then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to throw DOJ's weight behind baseless election fraud claims, in large part by using theories already rejected in the courts. Previous reporting also revealed the former President's threats to replace Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, an underling supportive of Trump's election conspiracy theories -- only backing off when numerous high-ranking officials said they would resign en masse in response.
But what the Committee's report -- with the benefit of additional documents and the testimony of Rosen and others -- makes clear is Trump's actions and those of others, like Clark, were even more manipulative, persistent and pointed in pressing debunked fraud claims to justify their effort to overturn the election. This disturbing knowledge comes at a moment when the Committee's work is still underway, as they await documents and testimony from others, including former Trump allies who are trying their hardest to evade the Committee's subpoenas.
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This report came from a SENATE committee - and the current committee doing more investigating and issuing subpoenas is a House of Representatives committee.
Of course, it is more than a little upsetting that the report from the SENATE committee did not set of some kind of alarm - but then again, what else would Moscow Mitch McTurtle do but disappear into his shell........... 