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Trump Conspired to Fire Acting Attorney General and Force Georgia to Overturn Election Results

In the final days of his presidency, Donald Trump schemed with a little-known attorney at the Justice Department to fire then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to advance a harebrained effort designed to force Georgia to overturn the state’s election results. The New York Times reported late Friday that Trump nearly replaced Rosen with Jeffrey Clark—the newest character in Trump’s never-ending, baseless claims of election fraud—but ultimately backed off because a group of department officials caught word of the plot and threatened to resign in protest.

 

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