Thread by @DempseyTwo

Wow…have you read the testimony of Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen? The link is below. The thread attempts to provide context and highlights what I found to be of some importance. Wow…just…wow. 🧵👇🏻 judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

Chuck Grassley, the Senate Pro Tempore who was poised to step in if Pence didn’t certify the election as per Point 1 in the Eastman Memo, defense of trump is that trump ‘listened to his advisors and didn’t replace Rosen with Clark for not sending the Clark letter so no harm.’📌1

While true-ish it also completely negates the fact that there *was* a Clark letter to begin with. Yes, there was a meeting in the Oval in which 6 of the 7 lawyers present thought the Jeffrey Clark scheme was a bad one. The 7th lawyer was Clark.

It was a bad idea. It wasn’t grounded in law or reality. The most important question of all is How did the Clark letter come to be? How did trump and Clark connect for Clark to produce such a letter to begin with?

As you can see, this is a question not only I have, but Rosen had. And it turns out there is an answer.👀🍿

@January6thCmte is going to want to speak with congressman Scott Perry from Pennsylvania. Not only should Clark never have been in the Oval with Perry and trump, but the WH council didn’t even know about the meeting either. inquirer.com/politics/penns…

WH counsel didn’t know Clark was meeting with the president. Rosen didn’t know, Rosen’s number 2 Deputy Atty General Donoghue didn’t know Clark was meeting with the president. When they found out, they started to wonder, wtf happened to Jeff Clark? And with good reason.

The Chinese thermostats weren’t the only crazy out there theories. Remember Italygate? Wherein WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows sent an email to Rosen saying Italy had satellites changing votes on the Dominion machines? This was plausible to Clark?

But now, let’s remember something else. Mark Meadows used to be the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. Rep Scott Perry, who seems to have brokered the Clark-trump relationship, *is* a member of the House Freedom Caucus.📌2

Remember when I said Grassley saying trump listened to his advisors was true-ish? He sort of gave the impression that because trump never fired Rosen and replaced him with Clark that there is nothing here to see.

As you can see here, trump did offer the job to Clark. Clark then had the stones to ask AAG Rosen to be *his* number 2 & stay on as Deputy Atty General! On a scale of Hugo Chavez counted votes in Spain to Italian satellites changed votes from trump, this is Bamboo in paper crazy.

While it may be factually accurate for Grassley to have said that trump listened to his advisors, it is also misleading. trump’s advisors (at least Rosen and Donoghue) knew the whole of senior leadership at DOJ we’re going to quit if trump went with the Clark plan.

That is to say, if trump knew because Rosen told him in the Oval, he listened to his advisors, but why then did he offer the job to Clark? Why did trump also accelerate the deadline for an answer on the job? Well, it was getting to be January and an Insurrection was coming.

I’m sure that had to have played a role in the decision making. How would it look for trump if 2 or 3 days prior to the Insurrection he replaced the AG? He already ‘replaced the brass’ at DOD when he cleared out everyone and installed yes-men like Mike Flynn’s brother Charles.

Now we know, at the very least, Rep Scott Perry has definitely earned himself a @January6thCmte invite if not a subpoena. Mark Meadows, to the extent he is cooperating, has a lot to answer for, and Chuck Grassley is being less than complete with the record.

AAG Rosen needs to testify in public. This deposition is from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation and I do urge you all to read it. @January6thCmte needs to have him speak in prime time.

The Insurrection lives in the House Freedom caucus, folks. What was once the tea party and bain of Boehner’s existence has become hell bent on authoritarian take over.
END

@maddow @JoyAnnReid @ZevShalev @Heidi_Cuda @BaddCompani @LincolnsBible @jennycohn1 @gregolear @nancylevine

📌1. Chuck Grassley is mentioned in Point 1 of the John Eastman Memo. The Jeffrey Clark letter set the predicate for the Eastman memo to be followed. They needed both to pull this off. You can read that memo in here👇🏻

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1441029774835523592

📌2. I mentioned Mark Meadows used to be the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. Spend time in here to learn more about his successor Andy Biggs and what his reward for obstructing Obama was from another @January6thCmte subpoena recipient Amy Kremer.

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1394724560289796098

P.S. Lest anyone wonder why didn’t Rosen just fire Clark for having gone behind his back twice, he couldn’t. Clark was a Senate-confirmed appointee. Confirmed by a Republican led Senate, by the way.