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Two new investigations open into Department of Justice complicity with Trump’s election plots

By Joan McCarter 

Daily Kos Staff

A violent insurrection to overthrow Congress seems to have been the last of Donald Trump’s efforts to throw out the election of 2020 and keep him in the Oval Office. But with every day that passes, more plots are revealed, including the latest—his plan to remove then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and replace him with Department of Justice Jeffrey Clark who would use the power of the DOJ to force Georgia legislators to decertify the state’s election results, preventing Congress from conducting the Electoral College vote count. The Justice Department now wants to confirm the report and determine who else might have been in on the plot.


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