Even more trump FRAUD and CORRUPTION . . .

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump to his appointed AG at the DOJ last December:
     'Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me'

Former President Donald Trump pressured his acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen
to declare that the election was "corrupt," in an attempt to help Republican members
of Congress try to overturn the election result, according to handwritten notes of a
call Trump held with Rosen and acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue.

     During the December 27, 2020, call, Trump pressured Rosen and Donoghue
to FALSELY declare the election "illegal" and "corrupt" even after the DOJ
(under former AG Bill Barr) had previously declared "no evidence of widespread voter fraud."

"Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,"
   Trump said on the call, according to Donoghue's notes.

Evolving story....more to come about this and other trump corruption, fraud

     Donoghue's contemporaneous notes during that phone call
were provided to the House Oversight Committee,
from call the Trump held with (Republicans) Rosen and Donoghue,
who took over the top spots at DOJ in the final weeks of Trump's
presidency following the resignation of Attorney General William Barr.
Barr had previously declared "no evidence of widespread voter fraud."

The notes are the latest evidence of Trump's efforts to pressure
the Justice Department to support his false claims of election fraud
as he tried to overturn his November loss to Joe Biden.

"These handwritten notes show that then President Trump
 directly instructed our nation's top law enforcement agency
 to take steps to overturn a free and fair election
 in the final days of his presidency,"
                             House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said in a statement.

Several major NEWS media have already reported this breaking story, while FOX NEWS website is thus far *REFUSING* to cover it  (as of the moment I post this)  

I believe they are waiting for a likely mocking/critical response from trump -- declaring the story "all lies" and just "a witch hunt"  and totally politically motivated by the evil Democrats who are satan-worshippers and run an international child sex-trafficking ring ......and eat babies too

Then that way FOX NEWS will cover *THAT* reaction by trump, rather than the original, damning story.

During the phone call on Dec. 27, Trump urged Rosen to take action,
saying "people are angry" and blaming the Justice Department for
failing to respond to (alleged) legitimate claims of voter fraud.

"You guys may not be following the internet the way I do,"
Trump said, according to notes by former Acting Deputy AG Richard Donoghue.

I'm pretty fatigued over all that Trump did while in office but this latest revelation is blatantly criminal. Screwing with the Ukraine President was bad but this has me at a loss for words.

So I'll go back to capping the ponies @ Saratoga for tomorrow, have some ice cream & relax knowing the adults in government will get justice for the country.

Rosen pushed back,
telling Trump the department has conducted "dozens" of investigations
and "hundreds of interviews," but has found NO evidence to support his claims.

"We *ARE* doing our job! Much of the info you're getting is FALSE!" Rosen said.

holy fck !    

first ukraine   

then the georgia election officials    

now this   

Trump appears to threaten his own handpicked DOJ

In the same phone call, Trump dangled the THREAT of possibly replacing
Rosen, with Jeff Clark, the former head of the Justice Department's Civil Division
who's sympathetic to trump's FALSE voter fraud claims.

"People tell me Jeff Clark is great, I should put him in," Trump said.
"People want me to replace D.O.J. leadership."

Rep. Carolyn Maloney,  chair of the House Oversight Committee, said:

“The Committee has begun scheduling interviews with key witnesses
 to investigate the full extent of the former President’s corruption,
 and I will exercise every tool at my disposal to ensure
 all witness testimony is secured without delay.”

Trump pressured DOJ to call election ‘corrupt,’
ex-trump official wrote

YAHOO NEWS
Former President Donald Trump pressured top Justice Department officials
to publicly call the 2020 election “illegal” and “corrupt” and “leave the rest to me,”
according to handwritten notes released by a House committee on Friday.

The notes, written by former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard P. Donoghue,
shine additional light on the Trump’s unprecedented effort to overturn President
Joe Biden’s victory during his waning days in office, based on false claims of fraud.

“Told him flat out that much of the info he is getting is false,
+/or just not supported by the evidence – we look at allegations
but they do not pan out,” Donoghue wrote in his notes.

NEWSWEEK
Trump Says He *Didn't* Ask DOJ to Call Election 'Corrupt,'
and Demands Voter Fraud Investigation

(and to deflect voter attention from his seditious attempted coup)
Trump has demanded that Congress conduct a full-scale corruption investigation
into the 2020 election results which Republican legislatures certified for Joe Biden.

According to yahoo news, watchdog group calls for criminal investigation of Trump's weaponization of justice department to overturn fair election despite no evidence of fraud.  Citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington alleges conspiracy to deprive Americans of their right to vote and have their votes counted.

Well that figures, given that the failed trump-regime is the most corrupt admin of all-time, as indicated by trump's lowly C-SPAN Presidential Historians ranking of just #41 out of 44 presidents

trump threatens his own REPUBLICANS

for not going along with HIS SCAM

NBC NEWS
Throughout the conversation, which took place less than two weeks
before the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, Trump said the Justice Department
was "failing" in its role, that "people are angry" and "blaming" (DOJ)
"for inaction," and calling for them to be "replaced"
according to Donoghue's contemporaneous notes.

@fubah2

 Trump is out of office and has been for quite some time. Are you going to seriously be talking about Trump until the next election? Move on, tell us all the great things you boy biden is doing. Oh, what's that? You've got nothing? All you can do is bring up Trump to divert attention from biden? Ok, got it.

definitely deserves deep investigation 

of course he threatened his own people

if they dont do what he wants he shouts the  2 word retort that made him infamous

‘Botched’ Arizona GOP’s Ballot Count Ends, Troubles Persist

The turmoil casts even more doubt on the conclusions
of what backers describe as a “forensic audit”
but what experts and critics say is a deeply flawed, partisan process.

In the last week alone, the only audit leader with substantial election experience
was deliberately locked out of the building, went on the radio to say he was quitting,
then reversed course hours later.
The review’s Twitter accounts were suspended for breaking the rules.
A Republican senator withdrew her support, calling the process “botched.”
And the lead auditor confirmed what was long suspected: that his work was
almost entirely paid for by supporters of Donald Trump - who were active
in the former president’s movement to spread false narratives of fraud.

All this came nearly 100 days into a process that was supposed to take “about 60 days,”
according to the Senate Republicans who launched it.

Republican, Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, one of the Legislature’s strongest advocates
for stricter voting laws, agreed that “the Trump audit” was “botched.”
A majority of the Senate, which commissioned the audit, is now against it.

“I wanted to review our election processes and see what, if anything, could be improved,”
Rep. Ugenti-Rita wrote on Twitter.
“Sadly, it’s now become clear that the audit has been botched.”

‘Botched’: Arizona GOP’s Ballot Count Ends, Troubles Persist

On Wednesday night, Logan ended months of silence about who was paying him when
he said a whopping $5.7 million had been contributed by political groups
run by prominent Trump supporters including Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell,
Patrick Byrne and correspondents from One America News Network.

The figure dwarfs the $150,000 to be paid by the GOP Senate.

from ABC News:
Trump loyalist at DOJ circulated draft Georgia letter with false election fraud claims

A draft letter reportedly circulated late last year by a Donald Trump-loyalist at the Justice Department shows the lengths his allies were willing to go to overturn the presidential election.
The draft December 28 letter, published by ABC News, urged top Georgia officials to convene the state legislature in a special session to evaluate supposed "irregularities" in the 2020 election.
The letter said, falsely, that Justice Department had identified "significant concerns that may have impacted of the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia."

According to internal Justice Department emails also obtained by ABC News, the letter was circulated by Jeffrey Clark, a top department official who was working with the then-President to get the department more directly involved in the Trump election reversal crusade.