Schumer calls for DOJ watchdog to probe alleged Trump effort to oust acting AG

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called for the Justice Department's internal watchdog to investigate former President Trump over a bombshell report released Friday that said he tried to oust his former acting attorney general in a plot to overturn the election results.

"Unconscionable a Trump Justice Department leader would conspire to subvert the people's will," Schumer tweeted. "The Justice Dept Inspector General must launch an investigation into this attempted sedition now."

"Arizona Republicans passed resolutions on Saturday to censure three of the state's most prominent party leaders who have found themselves at odds with former President Trump: Gov. Doug Ducey; former Sen. Jeff Flake; and Cindy McCain, widow of the longtime Sen. John McCain.

The sweeping " yet essentially symbolic " rebuke took place during a meeting to figure out how to move forward after the state flipped blue in November, narrowly giving its 11 electoral votes to now President Joe Biden."

In condemning Ducey, the party cited the governor's decision to enact emergency orders during the pandemic that the committee said are unconstitutional and "restrict personal liberties."

"Much of the meeting was largely a pep rally for state Republicans who support the former president and his baseless claims of election fraud.

State Republicans also narrowly reelected party chair Kelli Ward, an unwavering Trump supporter who had challenged the state's election results in a lawsuit that was rejected for insufficient evidence of fraud."

Speakers also dismissed the idea that silencing Donald Trump will stop the momentum of the 74 million Americans who voted for him. "We will not cede the battlefield to Marxist totalitarians who want to destroy this country," Rep. Andy Biggs told the mostly maskless crowd, which responded with raucous applause. "They want to abrogate your rights and destroy the Constitution of the United States. They want to take away your right to worship. They want to fight us and destroy us."

Both Gosar and Biggs have been criticized by liberal groups for their role in allegedly inciting the Capitol riot.

In response to the censure, Gov. Ducey's political director Sara Mueller said in a statement, "These resolutions are of no consequence whatsoever, and the people behind them have lost whatever little moral authority they may have once had."

Likewise, McCain was unfazed by the vote.

"It is a high honor to be included in a group of Arizonans who have served our state and our nation so well...and who, like my late husband John, have been censured by the AZGOP," she wrote on Twitter. "I'll wear this as a badge of honor."

"The effort was part of Trump's pressure on the Justice Department in his final weeks in office to overturn his election loss which also included plans to fire then-acting Attorney General Jeffery Rosen with a relatively unknown Justice Department lawyer who was willing to use the department to support Trump's false claims about election fraud in Georgia, two people briefed on the matter told CNN.

The effort ultimately failed as Trump appointees in the Department of Justice refused to file the lawsuit, according to the Journal. Rosen, along with former Attorney General William Barr and former acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, refused to file the Supreme Court case citing that there was no basis to challenge the election outcome and the federal government had no legal interest in whether Trump or Biden won the presidency."

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Fake News from those damn Commies at the Wall Street Journal!

Hope this makes it into the Impeachment trial.

Pu^^y Riot is up for this:

Lawyer Al Watkins?

Wonder if he's any relation to the Qanon Watkins family?

"duped" by Trump"

Really, he should be used to it by now.

He's from Richardson, a Dallas suburb. Maybe he'll share a cell with Trump and they can recount old times.

"He also said the police officer who fatally shot a Trump supporter during the attack "deserves to die" and won't "survive long" because it's "huntin[g] season."

Prosecutors said in newly released court documents that Miller posted extensively on social media before and during the attack, saying a "civil war could start" and "next time we bring the guns."

He was arrested on Wednesday, according to the Justice Department. Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to keep him in jail pending trial, and a detention hearing is scheduled for Monday."

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Lock him up!

Most everyone across the country in his delusion-filled Party bears at least some responsibility.

Even if is was just silence while Trump's supporters came for the Constitution.

So.... he's biting his pillow?

- I'm not interested in supporting my opinion.
It is what it is.

Unsupportable? Yep.

Wouldn't it be ironic if the anti-democratic insurrection for Trump gave general insurrection permission to Russians for a democratic revolt there.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to... plant a mole in the White House.

Weeping Willowby's hero Trump sets the nation on a dangerous trajectory of being unable to respond to Covid.... and that's Joe Bidens' Fault?

Biden has already done more in a few days to start turning the problem around than Trump ever did.

Of course, Trumpers aren't used to hearing the truth from the WH about any problems, only Trump's lies about how everything is fine.

"The plot failed after a group of Department of Justice (DOJ) officials uncovered the plan and threatened to resign en masse if Trump and Clark followed through with it. Rosen stayed in his position for the remainder of the administration."

Boaz also, as a free 'Merican, decides which side of the street he'll drive on.

The crazy just keeps gettin' crazier.

I'm just glad he won't be accepting that e'bil sosh'list Social Security check when he retires. More for the rest of the Americans.

They aren't a church, they are a political action group.

Here are the 30 executive orders and actions Biden will sign in his first three days

"The Senate will need 67 votes to convict Trump. If all 50 Democrats support a guilty verdict, they will need 17 Republicans to join them.

Speaking after Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., expressed concerns that Trump would not have enough time to mount a defense. He had asked the House to send the article on Jan. 28 to ensure "a full and fair process."

In a statement Friday, Pelosi said Trump "will have had the same amount of time to prepare for trial" as the House impeachment managers, who will make the chamber's case before the Senate."

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Nancy has been kicking ass and taking names for months now.

"Camargo faces four charges related to the January 6 riots that include civil disorder; knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; knowingly engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct in any restricted building or grounds; and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to the criminal complaint.

Camargo appeared Thursday in DC District Court, where a judge ordered he stay detained as he awaits trial. The judge agreed with the Justice Department that Camargo was a flight risk.

Camargo told investigators after his arrest that he knew he was wanted by the Justice Department in connection with his actions at the Capitol and "decided that he should attempt to attend the Inauguration rather than turn himself into authorities," prosecutors wrote in the court filing on Thursday."

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This may interfere with him werking on his physics PhD.

"Interviews with more than a dozen GOP senators revealed broad support for the claim that the Senate has no constitutional authority to put a private citizen on trial, which could translate into a substantial number of votes to scrap the trial altogether. The issue came up several times during a Senate GOP conference call Thursday afternoon, according to multiple senators.

"Our members, irrespective of what they might think about the merits, just believe that this is an exercise that really isn't grounded constitutionally and, from a practical standpoint, just makes no sense," Thune said.

But critics " including scholars from the conservative Federalist Society and other right-leaning organizations " maintain that the argument is on flimsy legal ground. Moreover, federal courts have consistently deferred to Congress' "sole power" to set its own rules and procedures, including over impeachment proceedings."

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Cowards. These cowards would rather have the Seditionist in Chief leading their Party again to another term than risk losing their Party because they too cowardly and craven to step up and have a real political party with real conservative policy.

They'd rather remain the toadies of their wealthy donors, but they know they can't do that without a way to get votes, which is easier for them to do with a rwing populist nationalist race-baiter than it is with good policy for their constituents.

"Fauci, who has served under seven presidents as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was a frequent target of public criticism from President Donald Trump, who accused him and other career scientists at public health agencies of overstating the seriousness of the worsening pandemic and hampering efforts to address it.

"It's obviously a very different situation. It's complete transparency," Fauci said in an interview Thursday. "Nobody is telling you what to say, at all. They are just saying go out there and let the data guide you on what you are saying."

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Must be like not werking for a Crime Boss any more.

Funny to see Mythbomber flailing away; running new myths up the flagpole to see if any of Trump's headless supporters salute.

Well done!

Might I add...

Great fireworks!

Maybe Bubba got laid?

#6

All ready with the shiv to go in his back. That didn't take long.

He just might not be pure enough.