trump s power grab could have ended democracy as we know it. among other things, the report details a three-hour meeting on january 3rd in which trump threatened to replace acting attorney jeffrey rosen. according to rosen trump opened that meeting by telling him that one thing we know is you aren t going to do anything to overturn the election. in rosen s place, trump wanted to install jeffrey clark, a lackey. if clark s name sounds familiar it s because he is the guy who pushed the doj to send letters to officials in georgia and other states asking them to void their election results. in other words, trump wanted the top law enforcement agency in the country to lend its credibility to the big lie, a move that would have sparked a constitutional crisis or worse. that crisis was only averted because all of the other doj officials in the room made it clear that all of the assistant attorneys general would resign