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Bombshell WSJ report: Trump pressured DOJ attorneys to sue states in the Supreme Court to overturn election
January 23, 2021
President Donald Trump pressured U.S. Department of Justice attorneys, possibly including former Attorney General Bill Barr, to file a lawsuit against four U.S. states in the U.S. Supreme Court, in one of his final attempts to overturn the election.
The Wall Street Journal reports late Saturday night that effort "failed due to pushback from his own appointees in the Justice Department, who refused to file what they viewed as a legally baseless lawsuit in the Supreme Court."
<p>The Journal also confirms Friday night's New York Times reporting that Trump attempted to remove his own acting Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen, after Barr left the DOJ just two days before Christmas.</p><p>According to the Journal, "senior department officials threatened to resign en masse should Mr. Trump fire then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, according to several people familiar with the discussions."</p><p>"Senior department officials, including Mr. Rosen, former Attorney General William Barr and former acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall refused to file the Supreme Court case, concluding that there was no basis to challenge the election outcome and that the federal government had no legal interest in whether Mr. Trump or Mr. Biden won the presidency," the paper adds.</p><p>The paper does not specify the exact timeframe of when Trump tried to force DOJ to file the lawsuit, but based on its report it had to have been after December 11, when the Supreme Court dismissed what most election law attorneys considered a frivolous suit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with other Republican state attorneys general.</p>
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Former President Donald Trump is reportedly livid at Republicans who he views as insufficiently subservient -- including the 10 Republicans who voted for his second impeachment.
But the threats come as he is in retirement at Mar-a-Lago and there are flaws in his plan, as was documented by New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman on Saturday evening.
<p>Haberman noted an advisor saying "he's golfing" when she asked about his efforts to recruit Republicans to primary the members of Congress he dislikes.</p><p>She also poured cold water on reports he is considering starting a "<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-patriot-party/" target="_blank">Patriot Party</a>" to compete against Republicans.</p><p>"Creating a third party is actually really hard," she noted.</p><p>And it would make no sense to try to do both.</p><p>"And it is contradictory to say 'I'm doing a third party' as well as 'I'm primarying Republicans.' You might be able to do one but you can't do both. All this is to say that while people have learned the hard way not to dismiss Trump, not all of his endeavors are identical," she noted.</p><p>Read her full thread:</p>
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Madison Cawthorn tried to defend overturning the election on CNN -- but Pamela Brown shut him down
January 23, 2021
Controversial Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) appeared on CNN on Saturday where he attempted to defend his efforts to overturn the election that resulted in the fatal insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
But CNN anchor Pamela Brown repeatedly pressed Cawthorn to document his allegations of voter fraud -- which were rejected by the courts, the Electoral College, and a joint-session of Congress.
<p>Cawthorn could provide no such evidence.</p><p>"Hold on, so you wanted to throw out millions of votes without actually seeing any concrete evidence of fraud?" she asked. "That's what you were doing when you were contesting the election, the intent there was throwing out millions of votes."</p><p>"Well, I disagree with you on that point, that was not my intent, my intent was to hold up the Constitution," Cawthorn argued, despite the fact he did vote to through out millions of votes -- even after the deadly insurrection.</p><p>Watch:</p>
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