white house, but the nature and circumstances of why he was forced to resign at whose request, what his resignation was supposed to accomplish has always remained murky. groundbreaking reporting by the new york times benny banner has revealed that his resignation was preceded by contentious meeting the night before in the oval office. this was a meeting january 3rd, and at that meeting trump s attorney general jeff rosen, and another justice official, a trump guy who was trying to cast doubt in the election results, fought it out in a meeting with trump. they argued over which of them should leave the justice department whether rosen should stay the attorney general or trump should replace him with this geoff clark guy, they argued whether it should falsely legitimize trump s claim about the election being stolen which jeff clark might have seemed willing to do. going into that meeting several
justice department officials were so worried that trump was going to go ahead and do it, that he was gonna take rosen out as attorney general and put this jeff clark guy instead, they were so worried about that that they agreed that they would all resign en masse if that occurred. really hair raising stuff, there will be movies made about this someday. they re reporting about that meeting suggested that when the dust settled and the attorney general was not replaced, rosen stayed in his position, one senior official wrote at the time it s sounds like the sound of justice has won, rosen got to stay and not be replaced by this geoff clark guy. but something else happened after that meeting, which still to this day doesn t make sense to me. we have these documents that were recently released by the house oversight committee, and they show us that after that meeting was over, when everybody was like did justice succeed? is he still attorney general? it s clark gonna take over? something el