Richard Donoghue's name might not be familiar to many Americans, but as stevebenen writes, the former Justice Department official's interview with special counsel Jack Smith's office matters.
, it was striking evidence that Trump effectively asked Justice Department officials to lie, at which point some congressional Republicans would advance the rest of the scheme to overturn the results.
But that’s not the only area of interest. In the immediate aftermath of his election defeat, Trump said election workers in Atlanta corrupted the vote tallies by taking improper ballots from suitcases. The claims were immediately discredited by, among others, his own Justice Department:who told the outgoing president directly that the matter had been reviewed by federal law enforcement and the accusations were baseless.
After one conversation in which the then-president referenced an imagined suitcase filled with fraudulent ballots, Donoghue told Trump, “No, sir, there is no suitcase. You can watch that video over and over. There is no suitcase. There is a wheeled bin where they carried the ballots. And that’s just how they moved ballots around that facility. There’s nothing suspicious about that at all.”
But wait, there’s more. In the post-election period, Trump considered a plan in which he’d fire Rosen, the then-acting attorney general, and replace him with Jeffrey Clark as part of a scheme to ramp up the Justice Department’s anti-election efforts. The then-president was prepared to do this because Clark, unlike Rosen, was telling Trump what he wanted to hear about keeping him in power, despite his defeat.
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