look into mr. clark. and whether he should potentially be disciplined as a lawyer for what he did here. i vote as explains in the intro, am struck by the fact that there are other senior justice department officials, who are very willing to use the resources of the department, to jump down these rabbit, holes on trump s behalf. up to and including the deputy intern general mr. donahue and the attorney general mr. barr. all of whom told u.s. attorneys to chase this stuff down. is that a problem for the justice department, in an ongoing way? is that a prime matter for the inspector general? is that a matter for referral the bar associations? possibly. it s not all that clear. to the extent that what they were doing was running down allegations of violations to federal law. then that s with the department of justice is there for. to the extent that it would be obvious to any person, these were cockamamie allegations, to
their own telling of the movie. here s the problem for the u.s. justice department on its own, terms and today. here s the problem that is just landed in attorney general merrick garland s lap. the problem is, that before in the end, they finally all offered to quit to stop this plot, before they did that, a bunch of them helped in the plot. they then just passively observe that this is what trump wanted, and this is what trump was pursuing, this was how trump wanted to use the u.s. justice department. they helped him use the justice department, to advance this plot up to a point. richard donahue, the deputy attorney general, telling trump, it ll be bad for, you it ll be bad for the, country will acquit. looks like a great story the movie at that point. before that, we know, he took trump s bat bleep theories about voter fraud. stealing the election in multiple states, and he sent those trump nanograms to the
i feel like the thing that s missing from the analysis in this, today in all the revelations here, is that disturbing facts, the now disturbing timeline we have, about other senior justice department officials, including attorney general william barr, using the powers of the justice department, in an irregular out of chain of command kind of way, to get the justice department to bolster trump s made-up claims about fraud. has made up claims that he was using to try to stay in office. all the attention is on the fact of the end of the day, senior justice department officials there were not gonna go that far, you ll have to fire us rory zein in mass if you go that far. but all along the way, all of this stuff fed from rudy giuliani from, the fever swamps. from the qanon conspiracy theory reddit groups or whatever else they are. wherever else they got this stuff, it flowed into the trump white house, it flowed from the trump white house to the justice department, and senior officials told
everyone else in the room was adamantly opposed to the president taking that step. he says, quote we went around the room for hours, discussing it. telling the president why this was a terrible idea. the president would say things like, well why have to lose. what would i lose at this point if i put jeff clark in. i said sir, you have a great deal to lose. and then we went around and discussed about the downside of doing. this we discussed whether jeff clark was even qualified to serve as attorney general, we informed president trump that he should expect mass resignations in the department if he did this. at one point, the president said, so suppose i do this. suppose i take him out. meaning attorney general, rosen and i put him in, meaning jeff clark. what do you do? i said sir i would resign immediately. and then he turned to steve angle, and said steve you would not resign would? you and steve said absolutely i would mister president. you leave me no choice. and i said, well, steve
for almost a year. now his resignation of his top federal processor just, forgive me, it just stunk to high heaven, when it happens. without explanation. in early january. we re in the middle of trump trying to stay in office, despite the fact that he lost the election. we had just learned at the time, just 24 hours earlier, about trump s effort to pressure georgia state officials into changing the vote count in georgia. into finding him just enough votes to the election results could be overturned. the same day, that he resigned, was when we learned about that call, pressuring georgia officials. again, he resigned as you need u.s. attorney, but he never had any explanation. now we have the explanation. and, we learn among other things that when he was the u.s. attorney of georgia, when all of this was coming down from the white house, about them trying to say that trump can really lose georgia, and then it was some sort of stolen election in the justice department should somehow int