Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Who's surprised?


The man who incited an insurrection against his own government and his own vice president, and who believes he'll be "reinstated" as POTUS in August, tried to get his own DoJ to join him in his corruption in the last days of his corrupt regime. These are shocking details of Trump's debasement of the Constitution. May Trump never come close to power again. And may he feel the fullest punishment of the law for what he tried to do:


WASHINGTON — An hour before President Donald J. Trump announced in December that William P. Barr would step down as attorney general, the president began pressuring Mr. Barr’s eventual replacement to have the Justice Department take up his false claims of election fraud. 

 Mr. Trump sent an email via his assistant to Jeffrey A. Rosen, the incoming acting attorney general, that contained documents purporting to show evidence of election fraud in northern Michigan — the same claims that a federal judge had thrown out a week earlier in a lawsuit filed by one of Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers.

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The emails, turned over by the Justice Department to investigators on the House Oversight Committee and obtained by The New York Times, show how Mr. Trump pressured Mr. Rosen to put the power of the Justice Department behind lawsuits that had already failed to try to prove his false claims that extensive voter fraud had affected the election results. They are also the latest example of Mr. Trump’s frenzied drive to subvert the election results in the final weeks of his presidency, including ratcheting up pressure on the Justice Department. And they show that Mr. Trump flouted an established anticorruption norm that the Justice Department acts independently of the White House on criminal investigations or law enforcement actions, a gap that steadily eroded during Mr. Trump’s term.


As more and more documents are released, we understand the depth of Trump's dishonesty and treachery and how he would use the levers of power to keep himself in the presidency he so clearly and overwhelmingly lost.

The thing to remember is this: Republican politicians believe in winning. They benefit greatly from the electoral college and from the United States Senate. They have used redistricting in state legislatures to create super-majorities. For the most part, most Trumpublican politicians no longer value democracy. This much is clear because they continue to support  Donald J. Trump's corruption.


11 comments:

Anonymous said...

So who's surprised? Not me. Trump is a corrupt democracy disrupter. If we're lucky he'll be too busy fighting in court to run again and even if he does run again he'll be buried in anti-Trump, pro-democracy voters!

Dave Miller said...

So... why is AG Garland not releasing the names and/or the actual subpoena requests that would show one, who requested it and two, the "legal" basis for the request.

Congress should subpoena the forms, news organizations should file FOIA requests and the American people should demand to see who in the DOJ authorized this and what judges approved these actions.

And all of the above is before we get to former Justice Dept leaders Sessions, Barr and Rosenstein saying they have no recollection of the subpoenas.

Paula said...

Tell me this... did tRump actually think that no one would ever find out the outrageous things he did as president or is he really just that stupid?!

Shaw Kenawe said...

Anonymous @10:09, We hope that will be the case!

Dave, Merrick Garland strikes me as a cautious, law-abiding judge, so perhaps he's making sure he assembles all the evidence he needs in prosecuting a case against the corrupt Trump and his lackeys who helped him break laws.

Paula, Narcissism comes with an outsized sense of entitlement and lack of fear of consequences.

Ray Cranston said...

This is why this country will never heal and will never come together as unified in anything:

"Two related thiongs:
The administration in the White House is illegitimate.
The Chi-Vi came from a weapons lab.

The Chi-Vi was the prime mover in installing a person in the White House that has provably taken large sums of money from the CCP. An administration that displaced the Trump Administration that was a thorn in the CCP’s flesh.

The Chi-Vi “threat” facilitated the override of state legislature’s Constitutional oversight of the election of the president in their respective state..

Is this s coincidence? Was it an intentional release? For a bio-weapon, it really isn’t the threat you’d expect.
But it’s effect on the US economy, and elections was disastrous.

Besides the lax voting rules, there is also the lax oversight of the vote tabulating process, including the proven manipulation of results by election software.

The “water main break” and the votes brought out from under a table in Atlanta, or trucked into the TCF Center in Detroit, delivered in the middle of the night when Trump was ahead, every ballot of which was for Biden and in an unsecured open tote, violating election law, having been delivered from a location referred to as the Chicago Warehouse.

Ballots being repeatedly scanned.

Ballots that were never creased yet supposedly arrived in the mail.
I trust you know the rest, these are just highlights.
Part of a trend.

Trump won the election. I will never be dissuaded from that position."

The guy who wrote this is demented. But when cultists buy into a cult leader, this is the result. No am;oumt of evidence even brought forward by Trump's own judges who threw out the cases that claimed there was fraud, even those can't make a cultist like this idiot see the truth.

this poor schmuck will go thru the rest of his life feeling he and his other cultists were "cheated" and that tRump was thrown out of office through cheating.

They're all mad as hatters and stuck in a world of conspiracies, lies, and fear.

All i can say is Eff 'em! I live in reality; they don't.

Dave Miller said...

Ray... that comment was stunning.

It's so far out there even the Capitan of the HMS Mothership of Denial is asking questions about it.

Those folks, and millions like them have decided that no matter what, they are holding onto their belief that the election was stolen. And if that is true, the question I have is this...

How does a country function when both sides of the political spectrum view a win by the other side as illegitimate?

We are in a dangerous place right now, holding on I believe, by a thread...

Bluebullamerica said...

Not surprised one little bit. There never was and never will be anything beneath the whole Trump bunch and the cult of fools who follow them.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Dave That person believes China infected the entire planet just to keep Trump from winning a second term? That's impressive paranoia!

People like that can't function in a society where people with differing politics sometimes get elected.

I don't see "bothsiderism" here. When Gore lost a dubious election to Bush, he graciously conceded and went on with his life and didn't whine about it for months. Hillary conceded to Trump when she realized he won.

Trump dragged this country down to the level of a junior high school meanie who refuses to believe that America did not want him for another term. And that sailor on the Mother Ship is as deluded and destructive as Trump.

Ray Cranston said...

That Trumper on the Mother Ship believes he's a patriot, but says zero, nada, nuthin' about the Trumpers who attacked the US Capitol and beat up cops and defecated in the halls. For a cultist like him, he can't see beyond his traitorous nose for what him and his pals continue to support.

We'll never get well as a nation as long as people like him refuse to see Trump's crimes against America!

Anonymous said...

When 30 or 35 percent of a nation belives in conspiracy and outright lies and another 15 pwercent really couldn't be bothered with even caring then yes, this nation and its democratic republic is haning by a thread.

It has became clear under the tRump administratiion that Republicans have drifted so far away from our founding principles so as to now be completely and totally unrecognizable as the party they ONCE were. A VERY long time ago.

Do not believe the party of tRump the seditionist/insurrectionist has the capacity, let alone the desire, to change gears and reverse their un American, corrupt, and undemocratic course. POWER, ABSOLUTE POWER is their one and only focus and goal. You could go so far as to call it a perverted love affar.

They're sick. They're pathetic. And they need to be ousted from office or this country is SCREWED. For GOOD.

Ducky's here said...

I can't wait to see wht they have in mind for August when there'd no reinstatement.

That's when the stuff will hit the fn.