Still obsessed w the BJay Pak stuff in Georgia. It seems like the additional info from the report (tho I might have missed reporting on this) is that Donoghue just decided while talking w Trump on 1/3 that Pak would be "resigning" the next day — to stop Trump from firing Pak.
Jeffrey Bossert Clark. Wow. This is such an unbelievable, completely-outside-of-the-realm-of-acceptable-behavior proposal ...
... and it's made even more cartoonishly evil by the way he proposes it — with less concern than that which I would exhibit in proposing which movie we should see this weekend:
It's really going to be difficult to write ominous, bad-actor political fiction going forward that doesn't just rehash old Trump administration ground.
Oh, wow. While Clark was scheming with Trump to possibly take over DOJ, that didn't stop him — while asking for DOJ to send those letters — from asking the people he was scheming to oust for a promotion!!! This is from the "Urgent Action Items" email:
Jeffrey Bossert Clark was GOING FOR IT. Here's the conclusion for his "proof of concept" letter that was to go to Georgia that he attached to that email to Rosen and Donoghue:
!!! Donoghue, 70 minutes later, responds: "[T]here is no chance that I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this."
Here is Donoghue's full response to Clark, which is BLISTERING, and concludes: "[F]rom where I stand, this is not even within the realm of possibility."
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