Surprised no one has mentioned this, but The New York Times detonated another bombshell on top of its report last night that Trump seriously considered dumping acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen in favor of the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division, Jeffrey Clark, who was willing to use the power of the DOJ to pressure Georgia state lawmakers into overturning Biden’s win there.
In the last hour, the Old Grey Lady revealed that Scott Perry of PA-10 (Harrisburg, York, Hershey, Carlisle) was the main point man on Capitol Hill for this outright seditious scheme.
It was Mr. Perry, a member of the hard-line Freedom Caucus, who first made Mr. Trump aware that a relatively obscure Justice Department official, Jeffrey Clark, the acting chief of the civil division, was sympathetic to Mr. Trump’s view that the election had been stolen, according to former administration officials who spoke with Mr. Clark and Mr. Trump.
Mr. Perry introduced the president to Mr. Clark, whose openness to conspiracy theories about election fraud presented Mr. Trump with a welcome change from the acting attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, who stood by the results of the election and had repeatedly resisted the president’s efforts to undo them.
In the days before Congress was due to meet to certify Biden’s win, Perry and Clark discussed having the DOJ send a formal letter informing Georgia state officials of a federal investigation into voter fraud that could invalidate Biden’s narrow win there. They then broached the plan with Trump. When Rosen refused to send the letter, Trump seriously considered dumping Rosen in favor of Clark, and was only dissuaded when the top leaders of the DOJ all threatened to resign in protest if Rosen were fired.
Perry was already in hot water for effectively attempting to disenfranchise his own state by objecting to the certification of Biden’s win in his home state of Pennsylvania. But this is something else altogether. There is no defensible reason for Perry to stay in Congress. He needs to be expelled, and posthaste.