CNN Trump: New revelations expose future threat ex-President poses

A burst of new disclosures exposing the extraordinary efforts by ex-President Donald Trump to steal power after his election defeat constitute a grave warning about the future and his potential bid to recapture the White House. New revelations emerging from Senate testimony, about a Trump Justice Department loyalist’s alleged behind-the-scenes efforts to call into question elections in states the ex-President lost, also render the continued GOP whitewashing of history about Trump’s crimes against the Constitution even more blatant and dangerous. Given Trump’s record of impunity, a new administration could be stocked with loyalists who would not balk at abuses of power – like his efforts to overturn the election, which were blocked this time around by officials in the Justice Department and in GOP-led states. Both Rosen, and the other official – Richard Donoghue, then the acting deputy attorney general – put another Trump-appointed official, Jeffrey Clark, at the center of an effort to help the then-President undermine the election results and to potentially oust Clark’s bosses who were resisting Trump’s efforts. A source familiar said the testimony provided new details about a January 3 White House meeting in which Trump had Rosen and Clark effectively audition for the job of acting attorney general. Interviews with former Justice Department officials provide new details on Trump efforts to undermine election results