New documents show how former President Donald Trump had already begun pressuring the eventual replacement to then-Attorney General Bill Barr to continue his false claims of election fraud less than an hour before announcing that Barr would step down.
BUT HIS EMAILS!!!
Ok discobot…the above is a complete sentence
Has donnie been indicted yet? (taps foot)
Kudos to Rosen for not going along with Trump’s attempt to steal the election.
Still, when I read his huffy responses saying that he won’t even reply to certain emails, I wonder why he isn’t completing the triangle and taking action about the election interference conspiracy coalescing around him.
Shouldn’t the Italy conspiracy be moved to a Vatican conspiracy in order to fill the hearts of evangelicals?
ETA. Biden is a practicing RC.
Responding to Giuliani the way he did I would’ve thought would get Rosen fired.by trump.
Rosen is in the process of negotiating to give an interview to investigators from the House Oversight Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee and others.
Don’t the House and Senate have subpoena powers? Seems they have the power to simply say, “Testify or go to jail.” Why are they always “negotiating” with people for their testimony?
Real question.
Trump sent an email via his assistant to Jeffrey Rosen
Trump followed up with another email through an assistant
The/These assistant(s) need to be subpoenaed too. There could be even more to learn from his assistants than some of the key players. What was he yammering on about as he was dictating these emails? Could be extremely insightful.
Unfortunately a tied Senate means no subpoenas from a Senate committee. That’s why we have to depend on the House to investigate…and the Putin Republicans are going to regret that they voted the commission down…
That statement stuck out with me as well. It’s maddening.
The average American would not get away with it.
“Putin Republicans”
Russki Respublicans
We’ve been through this during impeachment, for those who were paying attention in hive class:
The last time someone was imprisoned for refusing to testify to Congress was… in 1935. Nobody is going to invite headlines of first to make it happen in almost a century.
The few times it was used, it wasn’t reliable at working out as planned. Turns out imprisoning people can turn sympathies towards them, particularly here where it’s one guy taking on the Empire. (Very few of us cheered on the brave stormtroopers doing their job against domestic terrorists in the Galaxy).
And we need new Republican-written voting restrictions to stop supposed voter fraud why?
House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) has said: … “My Committee is committed to ensuring that the events leading to the violent January 6 insurrection are fully investigated.”
Now, she needs to add, “…and abuses of power by the former administration are prosecuted to the full extent allowed by law.”
I think we need to stop thinking of this as “pressure” Trump applied. That implies that the recipients of his crayon-drawn legal briefs gave two shits. Clearly no one did. So it’s not “pressure” Trump was applying. It’s panic Trump was feeling. Desperation combined with perspiration. Flop sweat. Like all losers.
That’s what Rosen and Trump’s DOJ holdovers want you to believe.
“It is when a country has become to its citizens a fiction that wars begin.”
Elaine Scarry
Trump is pathological. He sought to be a dictator. He was all the more frantic to hold onto power when it struck him that, once out of office, all of his sins might one day come to roost. He lives in fear of going to prison and he surely knows that the things he did before and after becoming president could land him there. I look forward to the booking photo.
By this time, Trump had DOJ spying on journalists and members of Congress. And now we are learning that he tried to manipulate DOJ to overturn the election. Why am I not surprised? He was the worst and most corrupt president in our history.
Emotionally, yes, Donnie was feeling a shortening leash.
But, it also seems to me that he was attempting to initiate a conspiracy to overturn the election, and/or further inflame his supporters, on the flimsiest of pretexts, pretexts already rejected by a court of law.
They were, thus, disqualified as bases for action. (ed.)
Hot on the heels of its successful deployment of Space Lasers, I wonder if the Mossad is now investigating the Italian’s international election engineering at Bibi’s request?
There’s a saying that not only “was Trump the worst and most corrupt President in history, he’s also the worst and most corrupt American in history”.