'Trump is guilty': Bombshell Senate Judiciary report offers frightening new details on effort overturn the election
The aftermath of the 2020 presidential election was unprecedented in U.S. history, with then-President Donald Trump losing to now-President Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes, but claiming he really won and doing everything imaginable to overturn the election results — including trying to bully U.S. Department of Justice officials. A new Senate Judiciary Committee report offers troubling new details on Trump's efforts to pressure and coerce the DOJ and is receiving a lot of reactions on social media.
The Washington Post's Devlin Barrett explains, "A Senate report on President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election offers new details about an Oval Office confrontation between Trump and the Justice Department, revealing the extent to which government lawyers threatened to resign en masse if the president removed his attorney general…. While Republicans on the panel offered their counter-findings, arguing that Trump did not subvert the justice system to remain in power, the majority report by the Democrats offers the most detailed account to date of the struggle inside the administration's final, desperate days."
BREAKING: damning new Senate Judiciary Committee report details then-President Donald Trump\u2019s repeated efforts to enlist DOJ in his scheme to overturn the 2020 election.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/politics/report-new-details-trump-pressure-justice-dept-election-fraud-claims.html\u00a0\u2026— Senate Judiciary Committee (@Senate Judiciary Committee) 1633606804
The Senate Judiciary Committee has issued a sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn the 2020 election.https://cnn.it/3BmqkuM— CNN (@CNN) 1633611963
Barrett continues, "On January 3, then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, his deputy Richard Donoghue, and a few other administration officials met in the Oval Office for what all expected to be a final confrontation on Trump's plan to replace Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a little-known Justice Department official who had indicated he would publicly pursue Trump's false claims of mass voter fraud. According to testimony Rosen gave to the committee, Trump opened the meeting by saying, 'One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren't going to do anything to overturn the election.'"
The DOJ officials, according to Barrett, "debated Trump's plan" for three hours, and Rosen refused to go along with it — unlike Clark.
"The Senate report says that the top White House lawyer, Pat Cipollone, and his deputy also said they would quit if Trump went through with his plan," Barrett notes. "During the meeting, Donoghue and another Justice Department official made clear that all of the Justice Department's assistant attorneys general 'would resign if Trump replaced Rosen with Clark,' the report says. Donoghue added that the mass resignations likely would not end there, and that U.S. Attorneys and other DOJ officials might also resign en masse."
In response to the Senate Judiciary report, Kevin M. Kruse tweeted:
Maybe we should, you know, do something about this? Hold people responsible for what they did? Pass electoral reforms so it doesn't happen again?\n\nI'm just spitballing here, but it seems like protecting democracy would be a good thing?https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1446099501601726473\u00a0\u2026— Kevin M. Kruse (@Kevin M. Kruse) 1633613280
CNN's "New Day" posted:
The Senate Judiciary Committee released a report with new details on how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn the 2020 election.\n\n"We could have seen a collapse of that Department of Justice into a political entity," @SenatorDurbin says.\nhttps://cnn.it/3ahfE4I\u00a0pic.twitter.com/s8Jv2tMuAx— New Day (@New Day) 1633612036
Here are some more reactions to the Senate Judiciary report:
Trump is guilty. He tried to overthrow the government. It\u2019s a simple case. He stood to benefit. He lied for months. Gathered violent militias and hate groups and confederates in DC. Whipped them up with violent rhetoric and sent them to the Capitol to attack. And they did-for him— Luke Zaleski (@Luke Zaleski) 1633608986
I no longer believe thatTrump will be held accountable by the Merrick Garland\u2019s DOJ. I don\u2019t believe those in government responsible for 1/6 will be held accountable by DOJ. sad thing is I did believe it for a time. I really hope I\u2019m wrong.— Denise Keegan Steeneck (@Denise Keegan Steeneck) 1633613363
The Senate Judiciary Committee report on Trump\u2019s subversion of DOJ and the treacherous activities of DOJ official Jeffrey Bossert Clark in the aftermath of the 2020 election is out. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Interim%20Staff%20Report%20FINAL.pdf\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/K5Mi7H1O9P— southpaw (@southpaw) 1633606756
Will republicans stand in the way of Justice like they did during his impeachment\u2019s?— Garry Owen, Meidas Recruit (@Garry Owen, Meidas Recruit) 1633607061
Everyone needs to drop the euphemism \u201cinsurrection\u201d for what happened on 6 January. It was the culmination of a failed coup.— Charles Klinetobe (@Charles Klinetobe) 1633613446
They\u2019re going to get away with it aren\u2019t they. Nobody will do jail time for an attempted coup d\u2019\u00e9tat. Not much of a disincentive to try it again in a few years time.— Jay Snowdon (@Jay Snowdon) 1633613203
Arrests, indictments, convictions, and imprisonment.\n\nUntil then, we are just giving them another chance to be successful next time.— Ryan Paulsen (@Ryan Paulsen) 1633612064
So I\u2019m just curious- all these horrible things happened, but none of it\u2019s illegal? Why is he possibly going to be able to run again? Why is he not in handcuffs?— Cheri-Ann Leon (@Cheri-Ann Leon) 1633612399
\u201cMr. Trump\u2019s proposed plan, Mr. Cipollone argued, would be a \u201cmurder-suicide pact,\u201d one participant recalled. \u201c\n\nMFer didn\u2019t care about the \u201cmurder\u201d part. It was the suicide that he couldn\u2019t handle.— Victoria Love (@Victoria Love) 1633613537
The truth is trump should\u2019ve been convicted in both impeachments. He should\u2019ve been compelled to comply more with the mueller probe before that. He shouldn\u2019t have been in office to mishandle the Covid response. And even absent all that he should\u2019ve been removed by 6 pm on Jan 6th— Luke Zaleski (@Luke Zaleski) 1633608945
