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‘The smoking gun’: Legal experts reflect on the ‘breathtaking criminality’ exposed in latest J6 hearing

Author:     Sarah K. Burris
Source:     AlterNet / Raw Story
Publication Date:     June 23, 2022
 Link: ‘The smoking gun’: Legal experts reflect on the ‘breathtaking criminality’ exposed in latest J6 hearing
Stephan:   I don't think most Americans realize how close we came at the last election to becoming a fascist anocracy, on the Mussolini model, with Trump as Mussolini. It is also now obvious that in addition to the appointees like Eastman and Gulioni, a significant number of Republican members of Congress were not only complicit, they were active agents working for Trump's coup, as they demonstrate by their requests for pardons. To me, the big unanswered question at this point is will Merrick Garland and the DOJ hold any of these villains accountable? I don't think the answer is at all clear. If they don't this will happen again, and it will be done more competently. We are a nation in decline, with one last chance, the election in November, to reverse what is happening. Will the American voting public rise to the occasion? I don't think that is clear either.
Former Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division Jeffrey Clark

The fifth of the public hearings for the House Select Committee investigating the attempt to overthrow the election focused on the extent to which the former president attempted to use the Justice Department to change the 2020 election.

The hearing came on the heals of federal agents raiding the home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who was alleged to have penned a letter that would have declared the election questionable.

Witnesses Jeffrey Rosen, Steven Engel and Richard Donoghue, who were all senior DOJ officials in the Trump administration, described to the committee how they met with Donald Trump in the White House to discuss what the former president said was election fraud.

Legal experts watched in awe of the revelations, claiming that former Acting Asst. Attorney General Jeff Clark is in big trouble for his role in the attempt to overthrow the election. On multiple occasions, the former Justice Department officials said Clark and Trump led an effort to subvert the 2020 election after […]

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