Trump Called Acting Attorney General Almost Daily To Overturn Election

According to new reports, Donald Trump called his then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen nearly every day after William Barr resigned to get Rosen to investigate non-existent claims of voter fraud. The calls apparently stopped after the events of January 6th, which makes the story that much more odd. Farron Cousins discusses this issue and explains why the calls stopped after the insurrection.

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The Washington post reported this week, that after William Barr resigned as attorney general, this past December Donald Trump on a near daily basis, they said almost every single day was calling his then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, because obviously there wasn't enough time left in his administration to appoint a new one and have it go through all that. So we had an acting attorney, general Jeffrey Rosen and was calling him almost every day to convince him to launch investigations into Trump's voter fraud, claims voter fraud, claims that all of us know were completely false. And luckily Jeffrey Rosen did not appoint any special prosecutors. He did not launch any investigations. He essentially ignored everything. Donald Trump was telling him almost every single

Day. Now here's where things get a little bit more interesting from this story. The phone calls stopped after January 6th, once

The cap capital riot or insurrection or whatever you want to call it. Once that happened, Trump stopped pestering

The DOJ to investigate his bogus claims of voter fraud. Now, I wonder why that is. Well, of course, as we know, Donald Trump was basically immediately,

Uh, facing his second impeachment. So he was probably a little concerned about that, even though he knew the Senate

Was gonna protect him, but you still have to wonder something clicked, right? Something happened, something changed.

I don't think it's that Trump suddenly had a change

Of heart after watching how horrible his supporters could be when they're all hopped up on his lies. For me, I think it was at that moment, once the adrenaline

That Trump felt from watching his supporters on TV and loving every second of it, which we know because that's, what's been reported. I think after that, he had a realization that,

Oh, I'm going to be in trouble. See things

Like that. Yeah. Don't just happen without people being held

Accountable for it. Or at least we want to hope

That people get held accountable for it. Not just those who stormed the capital, but those who incited it, those who spread the lies that got those people crazy because let's not forget folks. The reason they stormed the Capitol is because they genuinely believed the election had been stolen, that there was widespread voter fraud that benefited Joe Biden hell the event they were at prior to the elect or prior to the insurrection was called stop. The steel illegitimate things were taking place with the electoral college votes set to take place later that day. And Donald Trump's repeated calls to Jeffrey Rosen. Once again, show us that this was coming directly from Trump himself. And I know, I know, I know we know that. So you don't need to tell me that we already knew that

The problem is

There. There's a world of difference for Donald Trump going out and saying that at a rally versus trying to abuse his political power to force his subordinate, Jeffrey Rosen, to investigate non-existent voter fraud claims. That's the kind of thing that can get you in trouble. That's the kind of thing that's going to come up in these hearings that we have right now, Trump knew suddenly

That those phone calls would, uh, would eventually come back to haunt him. And again, I hope they do. I hope what Donald Trump

Had done prior to that insurrection, trying to abuse his office, to get people, to investigate his fake claims. I hope it all comes out during these

Committee hearings because it all played a role in basically turning these people into mindless zombies storming. The Capitol Trump's role

Has to be explained. It has to be explored. It has to be investigated. And that includes revelations like this, that he was calling that then acting attorney general almost every day

To get them to overturn the election.