two days after election day in 2020 before the results of the presidential election have even beenio called. president donald trump s chief of staff received a text message laying out a veryte detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. the text was from donald trump s son, don jr. and described in detail the plot to use republican legislatures to keep trump in office regardless of the actual vote count. if that failed, republicans in congress could keep dump in keep trump in power. it matches up with the scheme that trump and his allies tried to carry out by replacing biden electors with fake trump electors in states that joe biden won. today the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack released the transcriptsse of the interview with donald trump jr. and he told the committee he doesn t remember where the idea came from. quote, question. is that something you wrote, or did you cut and paste that from somebody else? junior,me i imagine i cut and paste
and i wonder one of the crimes tond which trump was referred criminally by the committee was obstruction of an officialwa proceeding. are thesest acts also part of wt will be scrutinized by d.o.j. as that obstruction? so i suspect that d.o.j., for whatever reason, has moved past the recommendations in the mueller report. many of them will be out of the statute ofil limitations by now. there s a iofive-year statute o limitations on prosecuting federal crimes. and perhaps hindsight will view that as a mistake. we know that merrick garland is very much an institutionalist, that he wanted to strengthen the justice department, that heen didn t want to tear the country apart with ideas that the d.o.j. is political. at the end of the day, when we evaluate what the former president did, it cries out for legal accountability. and at every step along the way, we see how he starts, sometimes very narrowly, legal