Today's hearing was about Trumps failed attempt to pressure the DOJ to issue a statement of fraud
Barr resigned. Rosen was made AG
Clark wrote a letter claiming that DOJ found evidence of fraud in states such as Georgia, but DOJ didn't issue it since it was a lie. They hadn't found evidence of fraud per Barr and his susccessors
Trump continued to pressured
Donaghue and Rosen to issue the false letter and leave the rest to him and GOP congressmen. but they refused to cave to his lies. They didn't issue that latter
Trump went on a mission to find someone who would issue that false letter. He found Jeff clark
Trump held a secret meeting with jeff Clark who doesn't have any criminal law experience. He was head of environmental civil divisiom at the time
trumps meeting with clark went against historical firewalls between the DOJ and white house that are designed to prevent an real or perceived conflicts of interest between white house and DOJ
White house counsel (the funny dude from the last hearing) told clark that issueijg that letter from the DOJ would be illegal
Clark started doing investigations of his own
Pat zipeloni also told clark to stand down, but he did not
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Trump pressured barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate fraud
The DOJ told him that not how it works
Trump has a private meeting with Cindy Powell where he told her she would be the special counsel to investigate fraud
Trump came back on new years and held a paranoid meeting where he asked if they could seize voting machines
Rosen told trump that DHS had already investigated and the machines were fine
Towards end of meeting, Trump threatened to get rid of AG Rosen and Donahue and replace them with clark
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Trump sent out requests on new years day with more baseless conspiracies that had already been debunked
Scott perry sent 20min youtube video about Italian conspiracy to Rosen who sent it to Donahue. The conspriacy involved mi6, CIA, leonardo group and others. Donahue watched the video and emailed AG Rosen and called it "pure insanity" since the video was "patently absurd"
Mark meadows called AG Rosen to meet with Johnson about this video, but Rosen said no since this conspiracy had already been debunked.
Mark meadows reached out to trumps Secrtsr of Drfense (christopher miller) and he did call Italy to investigate the crazy claim that Italian satellites were switching votes to biden lol
Worth noting that Trump told Donahue on a December 27th call "you may not be following the internet the way that I do"
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Since all of trumps goals were being rejected by DOJ, he considering replacing Donahue and Rosens with Clark
Rosen tried to walk Clark back to reality in terms of there not being a factual basis to trumps fraud allegations. Rosen was disappointed that clark continued to believe there was fraud despite not being part of the divisions investigations into prior allegations.
Clark admitted to having more secret meetings with Trump and white house despite having promised to not do that again and/or let Rosen and Donahue know
So Rosen was upset for clark being "insubordinate and out of line"
Clark's response was that he believed they should send out the letter falsely claiming that the DOJ had found evidence of fraud in Georgia
Clark also told them that the tikeline had moved up. That president had offered him AG job and he would be accepting it. This was January 3rd
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After clark left his office, Rosen did four things
- called meadows and said he needs to speak to trump right away
- called pat zepeloni (white house counsel) and pat said he w9ukd be at the meeting and support DOJs stance as he had been doing so far
- called Engel to join him at meeting since Engle knows his legal shit
- told Donahue to get departments senior leadership on a call to let them know what was going on
Many AGs told Donahue that theu would resigned in mass if Trump fired aG Rosen and appointed crazy clark in his place
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During meeting, trump called out Rosen as not even agreeing with the election fraud. Trump said clark might do somethjng tho
Rosen agreed with trump, saying thst he was based on facts and law. So that's why he wasn't going to sign the false DOJ letter. Because he wouldn't let DOJ do amything to overturn the election based off of lies
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Donahue joined meeting in street clothes. Conversation was not about fraud at this point. Conversaton was about whether trump should replace Rosen with clark
Heated conversation with everyone saying don't do it. Everyone except clark. People countered that clark wasn't even competent or capable of doing the AG job
After all, appijting someone to lead department of 115,000 people and conduct a. Investigation in days when he's literally never conducted a single criminal investigation in his life. Donahue told trump that would be "absurd"
Trump asked what does he have to lose by appointing clark, and Donahue said he would resigned immediately rather than. Work for clark who he had just declared as incompetent
He also told trump that there would be mass AG resignations
He said that if the DOJ released the false letter under clark, the story wouldn't be about fraud. The story would be how Trump went through two AGs in two weeks until you found some environmental guy to sign a letter of lies
English agreed that clark would be running a graveyard
Clark tried getting trump to do it anyway, but trump decided to abandon the AG replacement approach
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Three days later, trump continued to tell lies about the fraud during his save America speech on january 6th
During riots, AG Rosen spoke to pelosi who called asking for help. He also spoke to pence twice. He did not speak to the president on janaury 6th
Donahue went to capital to assure it was cleared of rioters and bombs before session was called back to count votes
Donahue also didn't speak to president on January 6th
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Days after January 6th, mo brooks, gaetz, and others requested umbrella pardons for everything from beginning of time until that day. Biggs. Goemer jordan perry mtg an dothets discussed getting pardons as well
Clark pled the fifth over 125 times
Barr resigned. Rosen was made AG
Clark wrote a letter claiming that DOJ found evidence of fraud in states such as Georgia, but DOJ didn't issue it since it was a lie. They hadn't found evidence of fraud per Barr and his susccessors
Trump continued to pressured
Donaghue and Rosen to issue the false letter and leave the rest to him and GOP congressmen. but they refused to cave to his lies. They didn't issue that latter
Trump went on a mission to find someone who would issue that false letter. He found Jeff clark
Trump held a secret meeting with jeff Clark who doesn't have any criminal law experience. He was head of environmental civil divisiom at the time
trumps meeting with clark went against historical firewalls between the DOJ and white house that are designed to prevent an real or perceived conflicts of interest between white house and DOJ
White house counsel (the funny dude from the last hearing) told clark that issueijg that letter from the DOJ would be illegal
Clark started doing investigations of his own
Pat zipeloni also told clark to stand down, but he did not
---
Trump pressured barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate fraud
The DOJ told him that not how it works
Trump has a private meeting with Cindy Powell where he told her she would be the special counsel to investigate fraud
Trump came back on new years and held a paranoid meeting where he asked if they could seize voting machines
Rosen told trump that DHS had already investigated and the machines were fine
Towards end of meeting, Trump threatened to get rid of AG Rosen and Donahue and replace them with clark
-----
Trump sent out requests on new years day with more baseless conspiracies that had already been debunked
Scott perry sent 20min youtube video about Italian conspiracy to Rosen who sent it to Donahue. The conspriacy involved mi6, CIA, leonardo group and others. Donahue watched the video and emailed AG Rosen and called it "pure insanity" since the video was "patently absurd"
Mark meadows called AG Rosen to meet with Johnson about this video, but Rosen said no since this conspiracy had already been debunked.
Mark meadows reached out to trumps Secrtsr of Drfense (christopher miller) and he did call Italy to investigate the crazy claim that Italian satellites were switching votes to biden lol
Worth noting that Trump told Donahue on a December 27th call "you may not be following the internet the way that I do"
----
Since all of trumps goals were being rejected by DOJ, he considering replacing Donahue and Rosens with Clark
Rosen tried to walk Clark back to reality in terms of there not being a factual basis to trumps fraud allegations. Rosen was disappointed that clark continued to believe there was fraud despite not being part of the divisions investigations into prior allegations.
Clark admitted to having more secret meetings with Trump and white house despite having promised to not do that again and/or let Rosen and Donahue know
So Rosen was upset for clark being "insubordinate and out of line"
Clark's response was that he believed they should send out the letter falsely claiming that the DOJ had found evidence of fraud in Georgia
Clark also told them that the tikeline had moved up. That president had offered him AG job and he would be accepting it. This was January 3rd
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After clark left his office, Rosen did four things
- called meadows and said he needs to speak to trump right away
- called pat zepeloni (white house counsel) and pat said he w9ukd be at the meeting and support DOJs stance as he had been doing so far
- called Engel to join him at meeting since Engle knows his legal shit
- told Donahue to get departments senior leadership on a call to let them know what was going on
Many AGs told Donahue that theu would resigned in mass if Trump fired aG Rosen and appointed crazy clark in his place
-----
During meeting, trump called out Rosen as not even agreeing with the election fraud. Trump said clark might do somethjng tho
Rosen agreed with trump, saying thst he was based on facts and law. So that's why he wasn't going to sign the false DOJ letter. Because he wouldn't let DOJ do amything to overturn the election based off of lies
----
Donahue joined meeting in street clothes. Conversation was not about fraud at this point. Conversaton was about whether trump should replace Rosen with clark
Heated conversation with everyone saying don't do it. Everyone except clark. People countered that clark wasn't even competent or capable of doing the AG job
After all, appijting someone to lead department of 115,000 people and conduct a. Investigation in days when he's literally never conducted a single criminal investigation in his life. Donahue told trump that would be "absurd"
Trump asked what does he have to lose by appointing clark, and Donahue said he would resigned immediately rather than. Work for clark who he had just declared as incompetent
He also told trump that there would be mass AG resignations
He said that if the DOJ released the false letter under clark, the story wouldn't be about fraud. The story would be how Trump went through two AGs in two weeks until you found some environmental guy to sign a letter of lies
English agreed that clark would be running a graveyard
Clark tried getting trump to do it anyway, but trump decided to abandon the AG replacement approach
-----
Three days later, trump continued to tell lies about the fraud during his save America speech on january 6th
During riots, AG Rosen spoke to pelosi who called asking for help. He also spoke to pence twice. He did not speak to the president on janaury 6th
Donahue went to capital to assure it was cleared of rioters and bombs before session was called back to count votes
Donahue also didn't speak to president on January 6th
-----
Days after January 6th, mo brooks, gaetz, and others requested umbrella pardons for everything from beginning of time until that day. Biggs. Goemer jordan perry mtg an dothets discussed getting pardons as well
Clark pled the fifth over 125 times
