CLEARLY THE RIGHT CANDIDATE FOR THE JOB

We’re all going to need to July to process everything that came out in the hearing of the House Special Committee to Investigate the January 6 2021 Attack on the House of Representatives today!

According to the testimony today, Donald Trump’s contacts with the Department of Justice will be some of the strongest evidence of sedition against the United States should Merrick Garland ever grow a pair and charge him.

Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen testified Trump called him every day from December 23 until January 3rd, pressuring him for a signed letter saying DOJ had found fraud. Trump was angry that the DOJ had “not done enough” to find fraud. He wanted a special counsel appointed for the specific purpose of finding election fraud and wanted a lawsuit filed with the Supreme Court (Which isn’t possible, since it doesn’t have original jurisdiction). Trump also said that the Department had an “obligation” to declare the election fraudulent.

The testimony was that at every point Trump was agitated and insisted he won the election.

Rosen testified that “the Justice Department declined” to issue the letter finding fraud because the request was inconsistent with the facts and law as found by the Department of Justice itself. Moreover, though Rosen didn’t testify to this point, Donald Trump was submitting daily requests as if the Department of Justice was his private attorney. He had every right to demand his own campaign attorneys find this “fraud” and file these cases, but he did not have the right to use the Department of Justice. Trump even used Jeffery Clark, the head of the DOJ Environmental Division, which would have no business in investigating anything but environmental issues, obviously. Trump didn’t care. He wanted DOJ, anyone at DOJ, to act as his attorney.

Trump continued to put pressure on DOJ. The Committee has already proven that Trump knew there had been no fraud in the election and yet the pressure continued. Rosen’s testimony could not have been clearer:

Trump’s Intervention and Demands Made to DOJ Is the Strongest Evidence of Sedition Yet

He is demanding that a department of the United States government join his conspiracy and commit sedition. This is simply devastating.

Just how unqualified was Jeff Clark, the man Donald Trump wanted to install as Attorney General? Well, for starters, he’s the guy whose home the F.B.I. raided Wednesday.

Former Trump White House attorney Eric Herschmann testified about what he told Clark, who Trump wanted to install as acting attorney general to help overturn the election results, during an Oval Office meeting in which Trump continued his relentless pressure on the D.O.J. to help him overturn the election. “When he finished discussing what he planned on doing, I said ‘(expletive), congratulations. You just admitted your first step you would take as A.G. would be committing a felony. You’re clearly the right candidate for this job,'”.

He went on to say, “I told Clark the only thing he knew was that ‘environmental’ and ‘election’ both start with ‘e,’ and I’m not even sure you know that.'”

Donoghue recalled telling Clark he wasn’t even competent to serve as the Attorney General and Clark tried to justify himself by saying he’d done very complicated appeals and environmental litigation. “And I said ‘that is right, you are an environmental lawyer. Go back to your office and we will call you when there is an oil spill.'”

Former deputy acting attorney general Richard Donoghue also recalled Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone saying of the letter Clark wanted to send, it was a “murder- suicide pact… we should have nothing to do with that letter.”

Aside from the colorful language, the real point to this testimony is that Trump sought to install a vastly unqualified person to the job of Attorney General because no one else would overthrow the election for him.

Donoghue testified none of Trump’s election fraud claims were credible and Trump still wanted members of the DOJ to say the election was corrupt. At a December 2020 meeting, Trump said,

“Just say the election is corrupt and leave the rest to me and Republican congressmen.” Donoghue testified that Trump told them.

This is more evidence that Trump knew his scheme was illegal. This point is important because it means Trump lied to people when he incited them to go to the Capitol on January 6th, and he lied in the commission of other possible crimes like his fundraising off of this lie for legal help that he didn’t actually spend on legal help. It also establishes Trump knew he was pressuring the Department of Justice to undertake an illegal act based on a lie in order to refuse a peaceful transfer of power.

As promised previously by Liz Cheney, the Committee released the names of the Congressional traitors who conspired with Trump. Adam Kinzinger noted that the Committee had evidence that Marjorie Taylor Greene (who was not yet a sworn member of Congress and Rep. Scott Perry attended a meeting at the White House on December 22nd, at which Trump and his allies discussed strategy, despite Trump knowing that there was no evidence of fraud. Representatives Matt Gaetz, Mo Brooks, Louie Gohmert, Scott Perry, and Marjorie Taylor Greene all sought presidential pardons for the Trump election plot.

Former aide to Mark Meadows Cassidy Hutchinson testified:

“Mr. Gaetz and Mr. Brooks, I know, have both advocated for there to be a blanket pardon for members that were at the December 21 meeting.

“As the preemptive pardons. Mr. Gaetz was personally pushing for a pardon, and he was doing so since early December. I’m not sure why. He reached out to me to ask if he could have a meeting with Mr. Meadows about a presidential pardon... The general tone was, ‘we may get prosecuted because we were defensive of the President’s positions on these things.'”

Herschmann said. “The pardon that he (Gaetz) was discussing requesting was as broad as you could describe — from the beginning of time up until today for all things. He mentioned Nixon and I said, ‘Nixon’s pardon was never nearly that broad.'” (Since one does not request a pardon unless one knows one has committed a crime, it appears the rumors about Fraternity Freddie and the underage girls crossing state lines with him for “immoral purposes” is not some aberrant miscarraige of justice.)

“Mr. Banks never asked me for one. It was more for an update on whether there were going to be pardons for members of congress. Mr. Gohmert asked for one as well. Mr. Perry asked for one as well.

When asked about Marjorie Taylor Green, the former White House aide said that Greene requested a pardon through the White House Counsel’s Office.

Jim Jordan was smart enough not to directly ask for a pardon but asked if Trump would be pardoning members of Congress.

The December 22nd meeting was when Scott Perry introduced Trump to Jeffery Clark. Perry’s introduction led Trump to consider firing Rosen and replacing him with Clark. The purpose of the meeting was to find a means to get around the fact that DOJ would not declare the election fraudulent. At that point, the meeting could easily become what a prosecutor could allege to be a conspiracy to commit fraud and-or sedition.

The names on this list are also the same House members who are defending the 1/6 insurrectionists and calling them political prisoners.

Like I said, lots of information to consider. One hopes Merrick Garland was listening closely to the committee’s session today.

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