First update (August 8) of the following main post: Jeffrey Clark is totally unhinged now with his latest craziness in this story from this Business Insider as he sounds more and more like Trump or even Rep. Taylor Greene (Jewish lasers started West Coast fires) with her totally crazy conspiracy rants.
“Jeffrey Clark, Trump-appointed DOJ official,
claimed Chinese thermostats changed votes in 2020 election, reports say”
Intro and Highlights from this Update:
· Jeffrey Clark, a Trump-appointed DOJ official,
asked his superiors to look into “foreign election interference issues.”
· Newly released emails reveal that Clark claimed
China had changed voter ballots using thermostats.
· Clark also urged Georgia to investigate voter
irregularities, despite DOJ stating there were none.
Clark wrote to his superiors including acting AG Jeffrey
Rosen and his deputy, Richard Donoghue, in a recently released email from
December 2020 asking them to look into “foreign election interference issues.”
Clark claimed that hackers had evidence that “a Dominion voting machine accessed the Internet through a smart thermostat with a net connection trail leading back to China.”
The emails in this story were obtained by the
House Oversight Committee and reported on by ABC news.
I point out with this
update to see how much Clark and so many other
Republicans stick with and try to mimic Trump. It is totally mind-boggling.
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Second update (August 8): This story just keeps growing it seems by the hour. Below is an interview with the leading excellent journalist and her reporting for the NY Times, Katie Benner (awarded Pulitzer Prize in 2018),with MSNBC, regarding her work with this very critical story:
“New NYT reporting on
Trump’s DOJ reveals how close we were to being pushed to the point of chaos”
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The original post follows:
Great reporting by NY Times journalist Katie Benner with details
in this article, even proven to be true (which I suspect they are) then is must
in the end nail Trump and Jeffrey Clark and who knows who else for full prosecution
and jail time – this is potentially the most-serious crime ever attempted by
Donald J. Trump? The
story below with this headline (formatted to fit the blog):
“Former Acting Attorney General
Testifies About Trump’s Efforts to Subvert Election”
WASHINGTON — Jeffrey Rosen, who was acting attorney general
during the Trump administration after Trump fired William Barr, has told the DOJ
watchdog (the DOJ IG) and Congressional investigators that one of his deputies
tried to help Trump subvert the results of the 2020 election – that according
to a person familiar with the interviews.
Rosen had a two-hour meeting on Friday (August 6) with the DOJ
IG, Michael Horowitz and then the following day provided closed-door testimony
to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The investigations were opened following a New York Times
article that detailed efforts by Jeffrey Clark Acting head of the DOJ Civil Division, to push top leaders to falsely and
publicly assert that ongoing election fraud investigations cast doubt on the
Electoral College results.
That prompted Trump to consider ousting Rosen and installing Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan.
Trump did not fire Rosen, but the plot highlights Trump's desire to batter the DOJ into advancing his personal agenda that the 2020 election was “rigged, fraudulent, against him, and that he did not lose.”
Clark, who did not respond to requests for comment, said in January that all of his official communications with the White House “were consistent with law,” and that he had engaged in “a candid discussion of options and pros and cons with the president.”
Rosen did not respond to requests for comment.
The IG spokesman declined to comment.
Rosen has emerged as a key witness in multiple investigations that focus on Trump’s efforts to undermine the results of the election.
Rosen has publicly stated that the DOJ did not find enough fraud to
impact the outcome of the election.
Rosen told investigators from the IG’s office about five
encounters he had with Clark, including one in late December during which his
deputy admitted to meeting with Trump and pledged that he would not do so
again, according to a person familiar with the interview.
Rosen also described subsequent exchanges with Clark, who
continued to press colleagues to make statements about the election that they
found to be untrue (that according to a person familiar with the interview).
Rosen also discovered that Clark had been engaging in
unauthorized conversations with Trump about ways to have the DOJ publicly cast
doubt on Biden’s victory, particularly in battleground states that Trump was
fixated on like Georgia.
Clark drafted a letter that he asked Rosen to send to
Georgia state legislators, wrongly asserting that they should void Biden’s
victory because the DOJ was investigating accusations of voter fraud in that
state.
Such a letter would effectively undermine efforts by Clark’s colleagues to prevent the White House from overturning the election results.
Rosen and his top deputy, Richard Donoghue, both rejected the proposal.
As details of Clark’s actions emerge, it is unclear what, if any, consequences he could face.
The DOJ IG could make a determination about
whether Clark crossed the line into potentially criminal behavior. In that
case, the inspector general could refer the matter to federal prosecutors.
Rosen has spent much of the year in discussions with the DOJ
over what information he could provide to investigators, given that
decision-making conversations between administration officials are usually kept
confidential.
However Douglas Collins, a lawyer for Trump, said last week
that the former president would not seek to bar former DOJ officials from speaking with
investigators. But Collins said he might take some undisclosed legal action if
congressional investigators sought “privileged information.”
Rosen quickly scheduled interviews with Congressional
investigators to get as much of his version of events on the record before any
players could ask the courts to block the proceedings – that according to two
people familiar with those discussions and who are not authorized to speak
about ongoing investigations.
Rosen also reached out directly to the IG and he pledged to
cooperate with his investigation, according to a person briefed on those talks.
My 2 Cents: This story is
very troubling on many levels vis-à-vis Trump’s sustained efforts to overturn the
2020 election and illegally get back in the White House.
Recall that Trump lost every challenge to the election and that includes over 60 local, state, and Federal court cases as well as 3-4 USSC rulings against Trump.
Trump lost on election night, a few days and weeks afterwards with counts, recounts, and audits and now the bogus AZ Cyber Ninjas audit that is way off track or even being legitimate – and that according to numerous AZ GOP state officials.
Yet, Trump simply will not give up even as everything he has tried has failed. His actions have further divided the country in the very worse way possible.
So, what’s next? Another January 6 riot – only more heavily armed I fear.
Nothing will change until Trump is indicted,
officially charged, tried, and convicted of a very serious crime, and to sentence him to
a very long prison term.
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