The letter stated, with no evidence, that DOJ “had found significant concerns” with their election results. on White House phone logs-Clark would have sent out a letter to key swing states. Once Trump installed Clark-he actually named Clark as Acting A.G. “What I’m asking you to do is just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” And to Clark. “That’s not what I’m asking you to do,” Trump replied. “The DOJ can’t and won’t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election,” Rosen told Trump, according to Donoghue’s handwritten notes of the key session, three days before the insurrection. Had Trump’s Justice Department scheme succeeded, “It may well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis,” Donoghue testified on June 23 to the committee probing Trump’s coup plans. And the country would have lost even more. That’s what Trump tried to force on the Justice Department. Capitol invasion, insurrection, and attempted Trumpite coup d’etat-along with the planning and machinations by Trump’s team long before. If it gets out of the role it’s supposed to play, it’s bad for our country, “ Rosen told the House Select Committee investigating the U.S.
“It’s important the Justice Department adhere to the facts and the law. It would “have been bad for the department, bad for the nation, and bad for the president,” he said he told Trump. The mass exodus would have told the nation something was seriously wrong, said Donoghue. “It’ll be a graveyard,” Rosen said he told Trump. Attorney in Atlanta, already had, due to Trump’s pressure. attorneys nationwide would have followed, leaving a hollowed-out DOJ unable to function. And within 72 hours, Donoghue added, most U.S. Ditto for Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone. The DOJ officials’ response to Trump’s plan in the tense meeting: Mass refusal and a mass threat to quit on the spot. “This (Trump’s try) would have tremendous constitutional, political, and social consequences,” said Rosen. On January 4, for example, Trump tried to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to reject electoral votes, and continued that through January 6, the day the Trumpite insurrection hit. The Justice Department officials, all of them Republicans, stood fast against Trump’s pressure, ending that part of Trump’s multi-level plan to overturn the election and retain power unconstitutionally. Trump also pushed Rosen, Donoghue, and other officials to declare the election “corrupt” in line with the “Stop the steal” Big Lie he perpetrated even before the November 2020 vote.
Capitol.Īt that long heated session, Donald Trump tried to impose a lower-level Assistant A.G., Jeffrey Clark, a willing Trump stooge with no experience in trying cases or running big investigations, to replace Rosen. 3, 2021, just before the January 6 Trumpite invasion and insurrection in the U.S. WASHINGTON-Top Trump regime Justice Department officials, standing by the Constitution and the rule of law, derailed his design to use the big law enforcement agency to pervert the law and further his 2021 coup d’etat try to keep the presidency.Īfter weeks of pressure, starting in December, the showdown came, said former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and his deputy, Richard Donoghue, in an Oval Office meeting on Jan. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation into the Trump coup attempt, June 23, 2022. Jeffrey Rosen, former acting Attorney General, left, and Richard Donoghue, former acting Deputy Attorney General, arrive as the House select committee investigating the Jan.
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