It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of this new development. Much as Jeffery Rosen may have done in his life to claim the title of a “completely despicable person, sufficiently so as to be Trump’s acting A.G.,” Rosen is also unquestionably one of the handful of people within the government that literally saved democracy in 2020, or quite possibly kept us from something akin to a dictatorship leading to whatever kind of civil war one wants to call it. Jeffery Rosen was told to sign a letter saying that there was fraud in the 2020 election somewhere, and leave the rest to Trump and Congress. Rosen was a Trumper. But he refused to sign the letter.

This puts Rosen on a list that includes Barr, Pence, Milley, and many more people at state levels we’ve never heard of that saved democracy, at least in 2020. But it also puts Rosen as perhaps number one on that list as to people whose testimony might be most-dangerous to Trump. And he’s already given it. Too late to take it back now. It could be suppressed by a court if somehow determined to be illegal, but unlikely, especially the testimony to the Senate.

We have already reported on the critical nature of Rosen’s testimony before the January 6th committee (which has yet to happen, but may now happen soon), because the entire “fraud” argument came from Trump, and eventually did involve members from both houses of Congress, each and every one of whom really ought to be sh*tting their pants right now. According to a New York Times report released late Saturday, Rosen already testified to the DOJ Inspector General on Friday about what he knew of Trump’s efforts within the DOJ and then testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday.

“Jeffrey A. Rosen, who was acting attorney general during the Trump administration, has told the Justice Department watchdog and Congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former President Donald J. Trump subvert the results of the 2020 election,” the newspaper reported, citing “a person familiar with the interviews.”

We mention the judiciary committee because the committee includes one Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a man whom you’ll recall did much of the legwork in “objecting” to the votes and – perhaps – was one of those folks Trump referenced when he said “leave the rest to me and members of Congress.” (Congress, of course, being both the Senate and House)

“The investigations were opened following a New York Times article that detailed efforts by Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division, to push top leaders to falsely and publicly assert that ongoing election fraud investigations cast doubt on the Electoral College results. That prompted Mr. Trump to consider ousting Mr. Rosen and installing Mr. Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan.

This should infuriate Americans and it certainly infuriates us. Merrick Garland happens to be head of the DOJ and would have the exact same Inspector General staff, or at least some of the staff, or at least some of the staff under these people, and if the New York Times found them, why the fck did Merrick Garland not find them? Or did Garland find them and decide it would look “poorly” upon the department? And only then decided the DOJ looked “poor” anyway? We cannot know but we reserve the right to be extremely angry if he had reason to know of this prior to the NYT article.

“Mr. Rosen has emerged as a key witness in multiple investigations that focus on Mr. Trump’s efforts to undermine the results of the election. He has publicly stated that the Justice Department did not find enough fraud to impact the outcome of the election.”

Mr. Rosen is the man with the assistant who took the notes that said, “sign the letter, leave the rest to me and Congress.” There was surely a lot more to the conversation than just the words on the notes. This is the most important development toward prosecuting Trump for fraud and whatever else post-election and within January 6th as any – of which we know – yet.

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