POLITICO Playbook: The Trump plot to subvert the DOJ

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Today's Jan. 6 committee hearing will focus on presenting how Trump pressured DOJ officials to advance what committee members have repeatedly called an attempted coup. More in today's playbookdc 👇

his legal team’s effort to create fake slates of electors,his refusal to call off the violent mob as it sacked the Capitol., sort of like the “Star Wars” saga. The hearings opened with granular details of Part 6 . The second hearing was largely devoted to Part 1 . At hearing three, they explained Part 3 . Tuesday was devoted to Parts 4 and 5 . The full details of Part 7 seem likely to be explained in an eventual finale.

atop the Justice Department. And the committee has previously teased evidence that Perry later sought a presidential pardon, which Perry has denied. The committee’s evidence on this point could be illuminating.about how the DOJ pursued and debunked a torrent of election fraud claims that Trump advanced — often despite being presented with contrary evidence.

— whether he encouraged the Texas congressman to file it, or discouraged the DOJ from getting involved. Pence’s team has always understood that Trump was upset that the DOJ helped Pence fend off the legal attack. For all of Trump’s pressure to get the DOJ involved in his gambit, defending Pence was the Department’s sole election-related court action between Election Day and Jan. 6.

. “‘Some argued to the former president and public that the election was corrupt and stolen,’ Rosen’s statement says. ‘That view was wrong then and it is wrong today, and I hope our presence here today helps reaffirm that fact.’”

 

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playbookdc In what universe of reality, truth, and justice can the former President escape accountability for his many violations. Laws of the land trampled, moral decency transgressed, integrity of others pushed unrelentingly, misappropriation and squandered funds entrusted, and more.

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