election result. it s a pressure campaign that came incredibly and alarmingly close to actually working. it could have completely changed the game for trump and his allies on january 6th if and only if it had succeeded. washington post is out with stunning new details on efforts by doj official jeffrey clark to essentially take over the justice department, efforts which culminated in a january 3rd meeting previously reported on by the post, the new york times and other outlets inside the oval office between clark, the man who would become the acting a.g. and his deputy richard donahue and of course one donald j. trump from the post reporting. clark had outlined a plan. in a letter he wanted to send to the leaders of key states that joe biden won. it said the justice department had, quote, identified significant concerns about the vote and that the state should consider sending a separate slate of electors supporting donald j. trump for congress to approve. in fact, clark
all of the adults in the room and this has been part of what s been so effective about their presentation said this is a lie. you can t do this. these were just people whose only sort of qualification is they got themselves to him saying i can make something up for you. i can say that the emperor is wearing clothes, but these new revelations by clark we missed this by an eyelash. we had no idea, it wasn t just donohue who stood up, donohue and dozens of doj officials were ready resign if trump did this and that and that alone made him back down. but imagine if this letter had gone out under the e just of the new acting attorney general instead of the m.o. i ve heard, he would have had the department of justice to say there s something fishy here, mr. raffensperger, you better go figure this out, et cetera. everything could have changed on a dime. we re looking at, i think, the