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New York Times Op-Ed by Adam Schiff
My Fellow Members of the Jan. 6 Committee and I Don’t Want You to Forget About ‘the Republican Congressmen’
On Dec. 27, 2020, more than six weeks after losing re-election, an infuriated President Donald Trump telephoned his acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen. Mr. Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, had announced his resignation less than two weeks earlier, after telling the president that the claims of election fraud Mr. Trump had been trumpeting were — as Mr. Barr later bluntly put it in testimony — “bullshit” and publicly affirming that there was no fraud on a scale that would affect the outcome of the election.
With Mr. Rosen’s deputy, Richard Donoghue, also on the line, Mr. Trump launched into the same tired, disproved and discredited allegations he had propagated so often at rallies, during news conferences and on social media. None of it was true, and Mr. Donoghue told him so. According to Mr. Donoghue, Mr. Trump, exasperated that his own handpicked top appointees at the Justice Department would not affirm his baseless allegations, responded: “Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.”
It was a remarkable statement, even for a president who had serially abused the powers of his office. Having been told by the very department that had investigated his claims of fraud that they were untrue, Mr. Trump told the acting attorney general and his deputy to lie about it and said he would take it from there.
That Mr. Trump was willing to lie so baldly about a matter at the heart of our democracy — whether the American people can rely on elections to ensure the peaceful transfer of power — now seems self-evident, even unremarkable, when we consider the violent attack on the Capitol he incited days later. But Americans shouldn’t lose sight of how this behavior indicts the former president, and not just the former president but also the Republican members of Congress who he knew would go along with his big lie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/opinion/adam-schiff-jan-6-committee-report-referrals.html
On Dec. 27, 2020, more than six weeks after losing re-election, an infuriated President Donald Trump telephoned his acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen. Mr. Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, had announced his resignation less than two weeks earlier, after telling the president that the claims of election fraud Mr. Trump had been trumpeting were — as Mr. Barr later bluntly put it in testimony — “bullshit” and publicly affirming that there was no fraud on a scale that would affect the outcome of the election.
With Mr. Rosen’s deputy, Richard Donoghue, also on the line, Mr. Trump launched into the same tired, disproved and discredited allegations he had propagated so often at rallies, during news conferences and on social media. None of it was true, and Mr. Donoghue told him so. According to Mr. Donoghue, Mr. Trump, exasperated that his own handpicked top appointees at the Justice Department would not affirm his baseless allegations, responded: “Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.”
It was a remarkable statement, even for a president who had serially abused the powers of his office. Having been told by the very department that had investigated his claims of fraud that they were untrue, Mr. Trump told the acting attorney general and his deputy to lie about it and said he would take it from there.
That Mr. Trump was willing to lie so baldly about a matter at the heart of our democracy — whether the American people can rely on elections to ensure the peaceful transfer of power — now seems self-evident, even unremarkable, when we consider the violent attack on the Capitol he incited days later. But Americans shouldn’t lose sight of how this behavior indicts the former president, and not just the former president but also the Republican members of Congress who he knew would go along with his big lie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/opinion/adam-schiff-jan-6-committee-report-referrals.html
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Hopefully he gets a bunch of interviews ... though I'm sure Faux won't let him anywhere near.
Independent investigative journalism is most definitely alive and kicking on all the internets.
There are, at a minimum, scores of good to great journalists out there Globally who do a great job investigating and reporting just like the MSM used to do.
I applaud them.
There are, at a minimum, scores of good to great journalists out there Globally who do a great job investigating and reporting just like the MSM used to do.
I applaud them.
Good choice.
This bit could be a description of today's GOP:
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
"Best" in this instance meaning "the ones who aren't completely bat crap crazy," and "worst," well, I'm sure everyone can figure that out.
Jeffrey Rosen sat back and let it happen, and he knew exactly what Chump was trying to do. Bill Barr - as much as I hated the man, I do give him credit - stood up and said "No, you can't do this. You can't lie and say the election was stolen, because it wasn't."
That's why Barr was gone and Rosen got his job. If Rosen had also said "No," he probably would have been fired or asked to resign. (Remember the Saturday Night Massacre?) BUT the entire Department of Justice including every US attorney would have also resigned in protest.
Rosen didn't resign, he let the lies stand. He went along with Chump's evil plan. And now here we are.
A possible glimpse of their caricature of him behind closed doors…
