Opinion | glennkirschner2: I believe the Justice Department is probably already running a criminal investigation into fmr. President Trump's attempted coup.
was aggressively pushing Justice Department officials to help him overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.The good news is that these revelations have inspired swift governmental action in at least some quarters. For example, the Justice Department inspector general's office promptly announced an investigation of Trump's pressure campaign.
When court challenges hit a dead end, Trump tried another tack: He told some of his Justice Department officials to just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to him and his Republican allies in Congress. We now know that after Trump told his Justice Department officials to lie and say the election was corrupt, at least one official took him up on it., then the acting chief of the Justice Department's Civil Division, wrote and circulated a letter making ominous — and unsupportable — claims of election fraud and giving Georgia and other states a road map to invalidate Biden's win, notwithstanding the popular vote.
And this revelation inspired the rare seven-hour, in-the-heat-of-August Saturday session of the Senate Judiciary Committee to take the testimony of Rosen aboutAlthough the revelations about what appears to have been a conspiratorial alliance between Trump and Clark seem to have quickened the investigative pace in Congress, we don't yet know whether the Justice Department is investigating the matter to assess whether Trump's conduct warrants criminal prosecution.
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