highest levels of government. we can only imagine what the military thought about this kind of meddling. let s think about the context of the moment. the date of the draft of this executive order shows bill barr had already designed. i think you also had white house counsel also threatening to resign if they were going to replace acting a.g. rosen at the time. so trump was looking for anybody he could lean on, anyone, and cue these players who probably shouldn t have had audience with the president or access to that information. and it shows the desperation of trump to do anything because what was outlined in that draft order was a military coup. that is what is striking here. i think that is what should be emphasized. you re right, there is no evidence yet that meadows signed off on it or trump signed off on it. as the select committee digs
with clark calling a letter trump and clark wanted to send to georgia officials a, quote, murder-suicide pact. and then chief of staff mark meadows made, quote, multiple, unquote requests for acting a.g. rosen to launch election fraud probes. again, he was pressuring him to do it not offering him information or sources that would lead to his own decisions. you see the difference? here is a picture put in the report of a new year s eve meeting where trump was threatening justice department leaders to overthrow democracy for him. just three days later, three days before the january 6th insurrection there was another meeting and according to the acting ag trump opened by saying, quote, one thing we know is, you, rosen, aren t going to do anything to overturn the
that and the silence from those not involved with the rebuttal about its lameness because that is just as poisonous. i m telling you the big lie could come back and be played exactly the same way in the midterms. so here is what the democrat led judiciary committee is hoping to expose to highlight what happened and therefore maybe do something about it. trump asked the doj nine times after the election to undermine the election result. nine times. not just take a look. not just, hey, have you seen this really obvious piece of proof? it s just, do something. do something. and they have the receipts. he considered replacing then acting ag rosen with doj lawyer clark who supported his fraud conspiracies. then white house counsel pat cipollone threatened to quit if the president replaced rosen
acting ag rosen with doj lawyer clark who supported his fraud conspiracies. then white house counsel pat cipollone threatened to quit if the president replaced rosen with clark calling a letter trump and clark wanted to send to georgia officials a, quote, murder-suicide pact. and then chief of staff mark meadows made, quote, multiple, unquote requests for acting a.g. rosen to launch election fraud probes. again, he was pressuring him to do it not offering him information or sources that would lead to his own decisions. you see the difference? here is a picture put in the report of a new year s eve meeting where trump was threatening justice department leaders to overthrow democracy for him. just three days later, three days before the january 6th insurrection there was another
meeting and according to the acting ag trump opened by saying, quote, one thing we know is, you, rosen, aren t going to do anything to overturn the election. unquote. and yet the defense in the rebuttal, trump did not use the justice department to overturn the election. meaning it s okay because he didn t succeed. and these people see nothing wrong with the clear proof that he tried to and had his people try to. at least nine times. all they re missing in their rebuttal with this is, remember this line, it isn t illegal when the president does it. that s the only thing they re missing from the nixon cover up playbook. you know, nixon didn t have this power in his own party. he didn t have these kinds of people in power worried about