Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
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“Unconsciously, a Trump Justice Department leader would conspire to subvert the will of the people,” tweeted Schumer. “The Department of Justice Inspector General must start an investigation into this sedition attempt now.”
Schumer added that the Senate will “move forward” with a Trump impeachment trial for its role in inciting the January 6 deadly riot on Capitol Hill. The trial is scheduled to begin the week of February 8.
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Unconscious, a Trump Justice Department leader would conspire to subvert the will of the people
The Department of Justice Inspector General must start an investigation into this sedition attempt now
And the Senate will move ahead with Trumphttps’ impeachment trial: //t.co/GTTYIGG3mj
– Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) January 23, 2021
The comments came a day after the New York Times published a bombshell report indicating that Trump tried to oust his attorney general in an attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election in Georgia.
The plan involved replacing then-acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department lawyer who was seen as more receptive to a plan to pressure Georgia politicians to overturn the results of the race there. Rosen refused to support Trump’s claims, contested by evidence, that electoral fraud cost him the election
The plot only collapsed after a group of Justice Department (DOJ) officials discovered the plan and threatened to resign en masse if Rosen was deposed.
The report was just the latest revelation of Trump’s campaign attempt to overturn the presidential election results he lost to President Biden. Trump protested his loss, citing unfounded allegations of electoral fraud, and sought to annul it by filing dozens of lawsuits, pressuring state lawmakers to send their supporters to the Electoral College instead of Biden voters, and even supporting the former deputy president Mike Pence
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