Schumer calls on DOJ watchdog to investigate Trump’s alleged efforts to oust acting AG

Majority Leader in the Senate Charles SchumerChuck SchumerDividing And Conquering Or Uniting And Thriving Roe Is Not Enough: Why Black Women Want To End Hyde Amendment The National Guard Returning Inside The Capitol After Being Moved To A Garage MORE (DN.Y.) called on the Justice Department’s internal watchdog to investigate the former President TrumpDonald Trump McCarthy says he told Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene he did not agree with his articles of impeachment against Biden Biden, Trudeau agreed to meet next month Trump was planning to oust acting AG to overturn Georgia election results: PLUS report on an explosive report released on Friday that said he tried to oust his former acting attorney general in a plot to overturn the election results.

“Downside that a Trump Justice Department leader would conspire to overthrow the will of the people,” Schumer tweeted. “The Inspector General of the Ministry of Justice must immediately open an investigation into this attempted sedition.”

Schumer added that the Senate would “move forward” with an impeachment trial of Trump for his role in inciting the deadly Jan.6 riot on Capitol Hill. The trial is scheduled to begin the week of February 8.

Downside that a head of Trump’s Justice Department conspires to overthrow the will of the people

The Inspector General of the Ministry of Justice must now open an investigation into the attempted sedition

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– Chuck schumerChuck SchumerDividing And Conquering Or Uniting And Thriving Roe Is Not Enough: Why Black Women Want To End Hyde Amendment The National Guard Returning Inside The Capitol After Being Moved To A Garage MORE (@SenSchumer) 23 January 2021

The remarks come a day after The New York Times published an explosive report indicating that Trump tried to impeach his acting attorney general in a bid to overturn the results of the presidential election in Georgia.

The plan involved replacing Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department lawyer who was seen to be more willing to pressure Georgian politicians to overturn the race results in that country. Rosen had refused to support Trump’s contested claims that voter fraud cost him the election.

The plot only fell apart after a group of Justice Department officials discovered the plan and threatened to quit en masse if Rosen was ousted.

The report was just the latest revelation of the Trump campaign’s attempts to overturn the presidential election results. Trump had insulted his loss against President Biden, citing unsubstantiated allegations of electoral fraud, and sought to overturn it by filing dozens of lawsuits, pressuring state lawmakers to send his support for the Electoral College instead of Biden’s voters and even relying on the former vice president. Mike penceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceTrump planned to oust Acting AG to overturn Georgia election results: Trump’s actions show why Congress must pass law for the Cheney people tests Trump’s grip on the GOP after the presidency LEARN MORE to block Biden’s certification of victory.