Thread by @DrDenaGrayson

🚨SEDITION: Trump plotted with Jeffrey Clark—acting head of DOJ’s civil division—to oust & replace Acting AG Rosen & wield DOJ’s power to force #Georgia lawmakers to overturn its election results.

DOJ department heads then said they’d QUIT in protest.
nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/…

Their resignation pact helped persuade Trump to keep AG Rosen—calculating that a furor over mass resignations at the top of DOJ would eclipse attention on his baseless accusations of voter “fraud.”

IMPEACH TRUMP AGAIN and PROSECUTE HIM CRIMINALLY for #sedition.🤬

#ConvictTrump

😱Trump’s decision not to oust Rosen came only after Rosen and Clark made competing cases to Trump in a bizarre WH meeting that 2 officials compared with an episode of Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice.”

This is the definition of a #SeditiousConspiracy.

ARREST HIM NOW.🤬

The day after Bill Barr announced his resignation, Trump summoned Rosen to the WH and pushed Rosen to file legal briefs supporting baseless lawsuits to overturn his election loss & urged Rosen to appoint special counsels to probe false claims of voter fraud & Dominion.🙄

🔥Rosen refused Trump’s ILLEGAL request and maintained that he would make decisions based on the facts and the law, and reiterated what Barr had privately told Trump: DOJ had investigated voting irregularities and found *no evidence of widespread fraud*.💥

Even AFTER Rosen slapped down Trump’s baseless conspiracy theories, Trump continued to press Rosen after the meeting—in phone calls and in person—claiming that DON was not fighting hard enough for him.

Lordy, I hope there are tapes!😎

#TrumpTreason #GOPSedition

#Seditionist Clark was introduced to Trump by a #Pennsylvania politician who told Trump that he agreed with Trump’s false claims of election fraud.

No surprise, Trump quickly embraced fellow #traitor Clark.🤬

#GOPSedition #TrumpInsurrection #sedition

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😱 In December, #Seditionist Clark mentioned to Rosen and Deputy AG Donoghue that he spent a lot of time reading on the internet—a comment that alarmed them because they believed that he believed the unfounded conspiracy theory that Trump had “won” the election.

#Sedition

‼️#Seditionist Clark also told Rosen and Donoghue that he wanted DOJ to hold a news conference announcing that it was investigating “serious accusations of election fraud.”

Rosen and Donoghue rejected his INSANE proposal.

Clark and Trump conspired to OVERTHROW THE ELECTION.🤬

Trump focused increasingly on #Georgia—where he narrowly lost—complaining to DOJ leaders that the US attorney in Atlanta, Byung Pak, was not trying to find “evidenc for FALSE election claims pushed by Rudy Giuliani and others.🙄

#TrumpTreason #GOPSedition

😱Donoghue warned Pak that Trump was now fixated on him & it might not be tenable for him to continue to lead it.

That and Trump’s efforts to pressure GOP @GaSecofState Raffensperger to “find” him votes compelled Pak to abruptly resign.

TOTAL #sedition.🤬

#GOPSedition

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‼️#Seditionist Clark was also focused on #Georgia & drafted a letter he asked Rosen to send to Georgia legislators that falsely said that DOJ was investigating voter “fraud,” and they should move to void Biden’s win.

Rosen and Donoghue again REFUSED to conspire in #sedition.

On 12/31, Clark, Rosen & Donoghue met to discuss Clark’s refusal to accept the election results.

Donoghue told Clark what he was doing was WRONG. The next day, Clark told Rosen he was going to discuss his strategy w/Trump, just before Congress was set to certify Biden’s victory.

😱Unbeknown to acting AG Rosen, Clark’s timeline moved up—he met w/Trump that weekend, then informed Rosen midday on Sunday that Trump intended to replace him with Clark, who could then try to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College results.

TOTAL #sedition.🤬

Rosen was reportedly “speechless,” but refused to step down without a fight.

Rosen said he needed to hear straight from Trump and worked with the WH counsel, Pat Cipollone, to convene a meeting with Trump that evening.👀

During #Seditionist Clark’s maneuvering, news broke that #Georgia State officials had recorded an hourlong call, in which Trump pressured them to manufacture enough votes to declare him the victor.

MASSIVE fallout from Trump’s #Sedition ricocheted through DC.😎

#GOPSedition

🔥Rosen and Donoghue informed Steven Engel—head of DOJ’s office of legal counsel—about Clark’s seditious maneuver.

Donoghue convened a late-afternoon call with DOJ’s senior leaders, laying out Clark’s efforts to oust Rosen.

ALL agreed to resign en masse, should Rosen be fired💥

Clark’s seditious plot is a throwback to Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, when AG Elliot Richardson & his deputy resigned (Bork did NOT) rather than carry out Nixon’s order to fire the special prosecutor investigating him.🧐

#GOPSedition

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That Sunday, Rosen, Donoghue, Engel & Clark met with Trump, Cipollone & other lawyers.
Cipollone advised Trump not to fire Rosen & advised not sending Clark’s letter to Georgia lawmakers.

Engel advised Trump that he & DOJ’s top officials would resign if he fired Rosen.💥

After 3 hours, Trump was finally swayed that firing Rosen would trigger chaos at DOJ, congressional investigations & recriminations from other @GOP, distracting from his efforts to overturn the election.

Trump ultimately decided Clark would fail & he allowed Rosen to stay.🙄

🚨This is a DAMNING portrait of yet another example of Trump’s #sedition.

The @HouseDemocrats and @SenateDems need to call these DOJ officials to testify PUBLICLY about Trump’s efforts to OVERTHROW our election.

@tedlieu @RepRaskin @davidcicilline @JoaquinCastrotx @RepSwalwell

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