US Attorneys Completely Ignored Trump's Please For Election Investigations

Another revelation from Michael Wolff's new book has come out, this time explaining that then-President Trump made personal pleas to U.S. Attorneys in multiple states to indulge his election fraud fantasies. All of the officials he reached out to completely ignored his requests, which only served to make Trump angrier. Farron Cousins explains why his claims were ignored and why this story proves how desperate this man really became.

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Michael Wolff's new book. Landslide has not yet come out, but we're still getting tons and tons of revelations from it. And the latest revelation is that in the days following the 2020 election, when Donald Trump was still convinced

As he is today, actually, that there

Was total fraud. And he actually won. According to the book, Trump started making phone calls. He personally picked up the phone, started calling us attorneys, including plenty of people that, you know, he appointed to the job calls these us attorneys in swing districts, across the country,

Begging them

To launch voter fraud investigations in their county and their district in their state, wherever it is they had jurisdiction. I want you, I am begging you. I called you personally, please start investigating these claims of fraud because I promise you you're going to find the fraud. And the book says that none of these us attorneys, none of them, including ones that Trump appointed indulged, his fantasies. And I got to say that is, that's a good thing to hear, right? That is what you want to hear, because if there were legitimate, you know, evidence of fraud that automatically triggers an investigation, as we've explained in the class, in the past, skews me, the department of justice actually has a division devoted to that. Okay? There are people who sole job in the U S DOJ is to look into claims of voter fraud throughout the United States. When a complaint comes in, when something suspicious is found, they go to action and they start investigating it.

But they weren't triggered by this last election because they didn't have evidence.

Oh, actually they had a couple pieces of evidence and there were, uh, eventually, you know, arrests made. But all of them that we know about publicly have been Trump supporters committing voter fraud.

So, you know,

They, they did do their jobs. The U S attorneys did their jobs. The DOJ did their jobs, but that wasn't what Trump wanted. He didn't want them to bust the Trump people who registered their dead mother in Pennsylvania to vote for him. Trump.

They wanted to create fraud. They

Want, I want to define fraud where no fraud existed. And that's what these us attorneys understood. If Trump had come to them with actual evidence, they would not have hesitated to launch an investigation, but he had no evidence. All he had were hurt feelings and a bruised ego.

That's what he had. He had

Had his poor little pitiful. Woe is me. I didn't windy away section, oh, please investigate.

And they said, no,

We're not going to do this. We would still like to have jobs once you leave office. And if we engage in this highly partisan behavior, probably not going to last too long, Biden's going to purge us because the way he won the election,

Now they didn't say that.

But I imagine that's what's going through their heads or what was going through their heads at the time. But as Wolf's book continues, Trump then got so off because the U S attorneys were not listening to him. That he then directed his IRA, bill BARR, his own attorney general, who also would not indulge his election fraud, fantasies. And that's what helped to cause the rift between the two and why BARR left the administration early. Um, Trump, this is actually what Trump said. According to the book. If I had one bar would have licked the floor. If I asked him to what a phony,

What, what, what, what does, what does that even mean? What

Would you legitimately ask him to lick the floor is bill BARR really the, I don't think bill bars that much of a pushover. He's a disgusting, hyper-partisan horrible human being. Sure. But a floor liquor. I don't know, man, but look, this is just how desperate Donald Trump was. He was shocked that he lost the election to let's admit it a very weak candidate and Joe Biden, but all of his failures over the last four years caught up with him, especially the ones from the previous nine months during the pandemic, the public wasn't going to let those things slide.