History in the making

Phoenix AZ

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Today trumps Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue in December 2020. Said they were told by Trump to “just say the election was correct and then leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen”. the context of the case being made by the January 6 committee, the quote is absolutely stunning and deeply revealing. Consider, first, the brazenness exhibited by Trump here. He is asking the two highest-ranking officials of the Justice Department at the time, who have already repeatedly made clear to him on the same call that his claims of election fraud are spurious, to just say that there was fraud -- and be done with it. Second, the quote reveals -- or, in truth, re-reveals -- the utter misunderstanding (and contempt) that Trump had for the Department of Justice.