In America’s never-ending, near-continuous daily unfoldings of T-Rump’s Big Lie bullshit and his unprecedented attempts to keep on being president even after obviously losing the November election, today another chapter — the Orange Turd tried to weaponize the DOJ to overturn the whole shebang.

The Senate Judiciary Committee released a 400-page report, aptly entitled, “Subverting Justice,” which detailed how another T-Rump toady in the DOJ with high, high aspirations, one Jeffrey Clark, created a shitstorm-like plan to ‘subvert’ election results by fraud, which was in itself an actual, real-life fraud. Dark humor where there doesn’t need to be any.
If you follow the news, this is probably already known (CNN):

Trump directly asked the Justice Department nine times to undermine the election result, and his chief of staff Mark Meadows broke administration policy by pressuring a Justice Department lawyer to investigate claims of election fraud, according to the report, which is based on witness interviews of top former Justice Department officials.
The Democratic-led committee also revealed that White House counsel Pat Cipollone threatened to quit in early January as Trump considered replacing then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ lawyer who supported election fraud conspiracies.
After the eight-month investigation, the findings highlight the relentlessness of Trump and some of his top advisers as they fixated on using the Justice Department to prop up false conspiracies of election fraud.
The committee report, the most comprehensive account so far of Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, described his conduct as an abuse of presidential power.
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Appearing on CNN’s “New Day” Thursday morning, Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said the US was a “half a step away from a constitutional crisis, a full-blown constitutional crisis” and explained the events unfolded in three phases.

“First phase, Trump goes to court. Loses every lawsuit, which claims there was voter fraud in the election. Next, he decides he has to take over the Department of Justice and the attorney general, and have the attorney general push this narrative on to the states to tell them to stop from sending in their Electoral College vote totals. When that failed — and our report goes into graphic detail of the efforts that were made — the third step was to turn the mob loose on the Capitol the day we were counting the ballots,” Durbin said, referring to the January 6 riot.

Pretty-much the wrap. Add, too,  this ludicrous, eye-rolling shit-sentence: ‘Trump also told the DOJ leadership, “You guys aren’t following the internet the way I do,” according to both Donoghue and Rosen.‘
Richard Donoghue was-then the number-two guy at the DOJ.

In Jeffrey Clark, the T-Rump has the perfect asshole gofer, and his own ass-kissing, mob-like lawyer:

According to the report, Trump was so taken with Clark and his willingness to use the DOJ for political ends that the president attempted to put him in charge of the entire Justice Department so he could “prove” that concept in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada — after he got finished ratfucking Georgia, of course.
And we only averted a constitutional crisis because the entire senior leadership of the DOJ threatened to resign en masse, accompanied by White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, who referred to Clark’s letter as a “murder-suicide pact.”

The real horror on this shit — beyond the sigh off a calamitous dodge-the-bullet moment — is nothing will come of it. Even the Senate committee’s DC bar referral on the ass-prick Clark’s legal code of conduct will probably fizzle out after a while. In saner times maybe T-Rump and his boys would be awaiting trial. Not in a time awash with scandal and governmental crime.

Maybe the biggest user of the senate’s report could be the House Jan.6 insurrection select committee, which might provide a path to investigate the reality of T-Rump’s treasonous efforts. However, a hindering, terrible snag surfaced today — T-Rump’s boys defying the law:

An attorney for Trump has instructed former advisers, including Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Dan Scavino and Steve Bannon, not to comply with the Jan. 6 committee's document subpoenas. https://t.co/A23oWkDjGl

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 7, 2021

Details via The Washington Post late this afternoon:

An attorney for former president Donald Trump, in a letter reviewed by The Washington Post, instructed former advisers, including Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Dan Scavino and Stephen K. Bannon, not to comply with congressional investigators who have requested information about their activities related to the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The group of former White House aides were subpoenaed last month by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, seeking records and testimony by midnight Thursday.
The bipartisan panel is investigating the storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob trying to stop the certification of Biden’s electoral college win, an attack that resulted in five deaths and left some 140 members of law enforcement injured.

Trump’s legal team argued in the letter, which was first reported by Politico, that records and testimony related to Jan. 6 are protected “from disclosure by the executive and other privileges, including among others the presidential communications, deliberative process, and attorney-client privileges.”
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The letter was a continuation of Trump’s efforts to use “executive privilege” to resist any cooperation with the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, banking on a legal theory that has successfully allowed presidents and their aides to avoid or delay congressional scrutiny for decades.
As a former president, Trump would need the Biden administration to assert executive privilege. President Biden, however, has indicated he will likely share with Congress information about Trump’s activities on Jan. 6 if asked.

We just hope Joe doesn’t cave.

About that sigh of relief mentioned above foreshadow-cast by a T-Rump forerunner, Greg Stillson:

Of course, Stillson reveals a way-most-horrible persona, and America dodges the proverbial bullet. If we could ever be so fortunate to have a Johnny Smith.

And once again, here we are…

(Illustration out front found here).