Brit Hume cries foul:
This story never explains why the plan these officials threatened to resign over did not go forward. The answer is that Trump decided against it. It is not to his credit that he even considered it, but his rejection should be part of any story on it. https://t.co/omyOSJbkhu
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 7, 2021
[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 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.
....For three hours, the officials then debated Trump’s plan, and the insistence by Rosen and others that they would resign rather than go along with it.
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.”
....A key issue in the meeting was a letter that Clark and Trump wanted the Justice Department to send to Georgia officials warning of “irregularities” in voting....The Senate report says opposition to the idea came not only from the Justice Department but from the top White House lawyer, Pat Cipollone, who made clear that he and his deputy also would quit if Trump went through with his plan.
Yes, Trump "decided" against it after spending three hours trying to strong-arm the Justice Department into publicly lying about mass voter fraud. In the end, he "decided" against it only after the entire top level of the Justice Department threatened to publicly resign and were joined by Trump's own White House counsel.
That Trump. He's quite the hero of the rule of law, isn't he?
Think of the possibilities. Here's one: Robert E. Lee was an American hero because he "decided" not to have his starving soldiers keep waging war in the face of overwhelming force. Should have kept that statue up in Richmond.
Hitler was a hero. He killed Hitler.
It's not to his credit that he didn't do it twelve years earlier, but his finally killing himself should be part of any story on it.
Zing!
Hitler was influenced by Freud.
in the end, trump was a sniveling coward as he had been all his life. when confronted, he backed down on his plot to overturn a free and fair election. that should be included in any story.
Got it in one.
Our putative yanqui hombreduro was a cobarde all along.
Strip him of all his made-up epaulets!
t-Rump, a lot of blow and little go mephitic guy.
Trump rejected his own plan to overthrow 2000 years of democracy! What a guy!
Because the Oafkeepers would have seen how easy it was to throw off the Constitution & subsequently thrown off El Jefe.
We would have become Angola in short order as El Jefe tried to be Jonas Savimbi.
Well, the oafkeepers are a russkie front after they bought up the remnants of the Georgia, Kentucky and Ohio militias from the 90's. Even oathkeeper word has a very russian/Soviet meaning.
Trump and the Trump organization were always about the grift, the hustle. Movement conservatism was nothing but a vehicle to a end. Which is why Trump, Russian Oligarchs, Watkins family came up with the Qnan scam, to real in people with fringe beliefs all over the political spectrum. Create a grift that isn't so narrow like Reagan.
But all grifts end. Qnan's mistake was being so partisan. That eventually backfires. Exposes the grift.
That Brit Hume. He's quite the ignorant assjack, isn't he?
I would never get in a game of croquet with Brit Hume. Endless appeals for fairness.
Word on the street is Megyn Kendall fucked Brit Hume to the top
There was an actual reporter there at one time before he became a tool.
Hell, maybe he was always a tool. He used to work at Ramparts. Wasn't it subsidized by the CIA?
The story does mention that Trump ultimately backed away from the plan. I can't tell whether this was an update after Hume's tweet.
I don't worry about Trump. I worry about the competent Trumpist who would've followed through. And the millions of our fellow citizens who think that's just fine.
Josh Hawley may be a less disordered personality than El Jefe, but that coarse mannered Yalie can't even grow an appropriately autocratic mustache.
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man."
Is it any wonder America has been in the throes of endstage kapitalism ever since we turfed out our last mustachioed president (W.H. Taft)?
Forget it, Jake. It's BritHumeyTown.
The crime boss couldn't find enough henchmen to pull off the robbery. It's to his credit that he didn't do it.