Trump risked provoking ‘constitutional crisis’

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee used Thursday’s hearing to show how Donald Trump tried to install a loyalist atop the Justice Department who would pursue his false claims of voter fraud and stop the certification of the 2020 election that Democrat Joe Biden won.

It’s the latest account of how perilously close the United States could have come to a constitutional crisis if the department leaders had not threatened to resign over the scheme and the defeated Trump had been able to orchestrate a plan for the U.S. government to overturn election results in several pivotal states.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., led the hearing, saying it would show “how close we came to losing it all.”

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-...ger-congress-9c98cbf2b3994fd9e347e951ea58c027
 
Trump and his crackpots brought us to the brink of ‘losing it all’

On the evening of Jan. 3, 2021, the United States was about one bunch short of becoming a banana republic.

President Donald Trump, obsessed with overturning his election defeat, was about to replace his attorney general for the second time in as many weeks for refusing to validate his lies about election fraud. But this time he was threatening to appoint as acting attorney general an unknown environmental lawyer by the name of Jeffrey Clark — roundly derided by his Justice Department colleagues as “off-kilter” and “not competent.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...election-lies-justice-department-plot-foiled/
 
Nearly every Republican on this board would vote for Trump again, making it crystal clear that all those years of professing love and respect for the Constitution was just a blatant lie.
 
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee used Thursday’s hearing to show how Donald Trump tried to install a loyalist atop the Justice Department who would pursue his false claims of voter fraud and stop the certification of the 2020 election that Democrat Joe Biden won.

It’s the latest account of how perilously close the United States could have come to a constitutional crisis if the department leaders had not threatened to resign over the scheme and the defeated Trump had been able to orchestrate a plan for the U.S. government to overturn election results in several pivotal states.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., led the hearing, saying it would show “how close we came to losing it all.”

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-...ger-congress-9c98cbf2b3994fd9e347e951ea58c027
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Did Kinzinger cry or just tear up?
 
Trump feeling fallout of Capitol attack hearings as allies abandon ship

The former US president has reportedly been glued to them – and has not liked what he’s seen. As the panel has presented a carefully crafted case against Trump as the leader of a failed coup, he is said to be livid that there is no one in the room to speak up for him.

Trump “has tuned into every hearing” and has grown increasingly irate – to “the point of about to scream at the TV”, according to a close adviser – with what he views as the “lack of defense by his Capitol Hill allies”, the Washington Post reported.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/23/trump-january-6-hearings-allies-fallout
 
Jan. 6 panel names five Republicans who allegedly sought Trump pardons

Videotaped testimony presented at the end of Thursday’s hearing named Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Mo Brooks (Ala.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Louie Gohmert (Tex.) and Scott Perry (Pa.) as the lawmakers who sought preemptive pardons after or, in at least one case, before the Capitol breach. They were among the most active and outspoken supporters in Congress of Trump’s false claims of election fraud.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/23/justice-jan6-hearing-thursday/
 
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