Trump Whined to Acting Attorney General: You’ll Do Nothing to Help Me ‘Overturn’ Election
"On Jan. 3, days before Donald Trump’s supporters went on to ransack the U.S. Capitol, the president allegedly opened a high-stakes Oval Office meeting by complaining to his acting attorney general that he was doing nothing to help him “overturn” his election defeat by Joe Biden."
147 GOP Reps and Senators who voted to overturn the election should be expelled:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html
AND...
Don't forget the Representatives who signed on to support the Supreme Court case coup attempt, but who didn't vote to object to the votes on January 6th/7th. A lot of them are still seated Reps (bolded).
Sorted by state:
Bradley Byrne (of) AL (ran for Senate and lost, no longer Rep)
Tom McClintock CA (also signed a letter casting doubt on election legitimacy)
Ken Buck CO (also signed a letter casting doubt on election legitimacy)
Gus Bilirakis FL
Ross Spano FL (lost 2020 primary, no longer Rep)
Michael Waltz FL
Ted Yoho FL (didn't run in 2020, no longer Rep)
Doug Collins GA (ran for Senate and lost, no longer Rep)
A. Drew Ferguson GA
Austin Scott GA
Mike Simpson ID
Darin LaHood IL
Trey Hollingsworth IN
Steve King IA (lost 2020 primary, no longer Rep)
Ralph Abraham LA (did not run in 2020, no longer Rep)
Bill Huizenga MI
John Moolenaar MI
Tom Emmer MN
Pete Stauber MN
Ann Wagner MO
Greg Gianforte MT (ran for Governor and won, no longer Rep)
Jeff Fortenberry NE
Mark Walker NC (did not run in 2020, no longer Rep)
Robert Latta OH
Brad Wenstrup OH
Kevin Brady TX
K. Michael Conaway TX (did not run in 2020, no longer Rep)
Dan Crenshaw TX
Bill Flores TX (did not run in 2020, no longer Rep)
Kenny Marchant TX (did not run in 2020, no longer Rep)
Cathy McMorris Rodgers WA
Dan Newhouse WA
"In one particularly egregious example, Rosen recalled that Trump opened an Oval Office meeting on the evening of Jan. 3 by complaining to the gathered officials: “One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election.” The meeting would end with several DOJ officials and White House counsel Pat Cipollone threatening to quit if Trump attempted to replace Rosen with a MAGA loyalist.
Overall, the interim report lists nine calls and meetings with Rosen and Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue between mid-December and early January, during which Trump asked for help in his mission to overturn the election and remain in the White House.
The interim report concludes: “Beginning on the day former Attorney General William Barr announced his resignation and continuing almost until the January 6 insurrection, Trump directly and repeatedly asked DOJ’s acting leadership to initiate investigations, file lawsuits on his behalf, and publicly declare the 2020 election ‘corrupt.’”
Trump Tried to Force the DOJ to ‘Just Say the Election Was Corrupt’
"President Trump led an extraordinary pressure campaign to try to get the Department of Justice to back up his voting fraud lies in the months after the November 2020 election, at one point telling them to “just say the election was corrupt,” according to new testimony from senior DOJ officials."
That's the other thing. He didn't say "leave it to me," he said "leave it to me and the R congressmen".
“Don’t expect you to do that, just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R[epublican] Congressmen” is how Donoghue recorded Trump’s response in handwritten notes.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/leave-rest-me/619621/
Republican elected officials were complicit in this and everyone is pretending that didn't happen for some reason.
Senate report gives new details of Trump efforts to use Justice Dept. to overturn election
"A Senate report on President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election offers new details about an Oval Office confrontation between Trump and the Justice Department, revealing the extent to which government lawyers threatened to resign en masse if the president removed his attorney general."
Link to the report. Worth at least reading the executive summary at the beginning:
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Interim%20Staff%20Report%20FINAL.pdf
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