{"id":50249,"date":"2021-07-31T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50249"},"modified":"2021-07-31T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T17:30:12","slug":"wannabe-dictator-trump-admits-to-pressuring-doj-to-just-say-the-election-was-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50249","title":{"rendered":"Wannabe Dictator Trump Admits to Pressuring DOJ to &#8216;Just Say the Election Was Corrupt&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t often that a criminal under investigation for serious felonies makes public statements attesting to his guilt. That would be extraordinarily stupid, as well as an indication of a psychotic degree of arrogance and narcissism. So naturally, that&#8217;s precisely what Donald Trump has done in an astonishing statement that affirms his treasonous abuse of power.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tyrant.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Tyrant Dictator\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35821\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s spokes-shill, Liz Harrington, released Trump&#8217;s statement in a tweet (a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49961\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flagrant violation of Twitter&#8217;s Terms of Service<\/a><\/strong> that prohibit circumventing a ban). In the statement Trump was reacting to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/30\/trump-doj-corrupt-election-501775\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent revelation<\/a><\/strong> that he pressured the Department of Justice and his Acting Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen, to <em>&#8220;just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Notice that Trump was not asking the DOJ to establish a factual basis for saying the election was corrupt. He just wanted them to say it, despite a total lack of evidence. Then he and his fellow coup plotters in Congress (allegedly Jim Jordan and Ron Johnson) would take it from there.<\/p>\n<p>More troubling is the fact that Trump&#8217;s statement didn&#8217;t deny any of the allegations. To the contrary, he affirmed that he had these wholly improper discussions with the DOJ, who told him that <em>&#8220;much of the info you\u2019re getting is false,&#8221;<\/em> and that they <em>&#8220;look[ed] at allegations but they do not pan out.&#8221;<\/em> Undeterred, Trump persisted claiming bizarrely that <em>&#8220;You guys may not be following the internet the way I do,&#8221;<\/em> as if that admission of idiocy validated his <em>&#8220;Big Lie.&#8221;<\/em> Trump&#8217;s statement raged that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The corrupt and highly partisan House Democrats who run the House Oversight Committee yesterday released documents &#8211; including court findings dealing with the rigged election of 2020 &#8211; that they dishonestly described as attempting to overturn the election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact it was just the opposite. The documents were meant to uphold the integrity and honesty of elections and the sanctity of our vote. The American people want, and demand, the the President of the United States, it&#8217;s chief law enforcement officer in the country, stand with them to fight for Election Integrity and to investigate attempts to undermine our nation. Our country has just suffered an incredibly corrupt Presidential Election, and it is time for Congress and others to investigate how such corruption was allowed to take place rather than investigating those that are exposing this massive fraud on the American people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW!<\/p>\n<p>President Trump:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The corrupt and highly partisan House Democrats who run the House Oversight Committee yesterday released documents\u2014including court filings dealing with the rigged election of 2020\u2014that they dishonestly described as attempting to overturn the election. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O8Dblk2rXX\">pic.twitter.com\/O8Dblk2rXX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realLizUSA\/status\/1421494063363149834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So Trump doesn&#8217;t dispute any of the substance of the documents that were released. He merely provides his own utterly irrational interpretation of their meaning. Fine. People &#8211; and juries &#8211; can judge for themselves what his own Justice officials were saying when he sought to coerce them into making deliberately false comments about the election. The DOJ&#8217;s contemporaneous notes, and their outright refusal to follow his orders, make clear that they didn&#8217;t accept his fictional and self-serving version of events.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s call for an investigation is laughable considering that he has already lost more than sixty court cases due to lack of evidence. Many of those cases were before judges that he appointed, including the Supreme Court. But if he wants Congress to probe the <em>&#8220;massive fraud on the American people,&#8221;<\/em> he should commit to voluntarily providing testimony under oath himself. Yeah, that&#8217;ll happen. However, he may not like the results when he is found to be responsible for the fraud, along with his Republican confederates, Fox News, and the rest of the decaying Trump Cult.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t often that a criminal under investigation for serious felonies makes public statements attesting to his guilt. That would be extraordinarily stupid, as well as an indication of a psychotic degree of arrogance and narcissism. So naturally, that&#8217;s precisely what Donald Trump has done in an astonishing statement that affirms his treasonous abuse of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,1201,1200,8,16],"tags":[1215,554,123,1431],"class_list":["post-50249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-justice","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-justice","tag-liz-harrington"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tyrant.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-d4t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52695,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52695","url_meta":{"origin":50249,"position":0},"title":"Trump Spokeswoman Thrills QAnon Crowd with Call for Mass Arrests of Imaginary Election Riggers","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/28\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"Big Lie\" that the 2020 election was \"rigged\" continues to be the top priority of Donald Trump's endless crusade for constant attention, blind adoration, and the financial fleecing of his faithful flock. 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