Schumer calls on the DOJ watchdog to investigate Trump’s attempt to oust acting AG

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Leader of the majority of the Senate Chuck SchumerChuck Schumer Divide and Conquer or Unite and Bloom Roe Ain’t Enough: Why Black Women Want to End Hyde Amendment National Guard Back in Capitol After Moving to Parking MORE (DN.Y.) called on the Justice Department’s internal watchdog to remove the former President TrumpDonald Trump McCarthy says he has rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said he disagreed with her impeachment articles against Biden Biden, Trudeau agreed to meet next month Trump planned to impeach acting AG to reverse Georgia’s election results following a report released Friday saying he was trying to oust his former acting Attorney General in a plot to reverse the election results.

“An unscrupulous Trump Justice Department leader would conspire to undermine the will of the people,” Schumer tweeted. “The Inspector General of the Ministry of Justice must now investigate this attempt at incitement.”

Schumer added that the Senate will “move forward” with a trial of impeachment against Trump for his role in sparking the deadly January 6 riot at the Capitol. The trial starts in the week of February 8.

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The comments come a day after The New York Times published a bombshell report saying Trump tried to remove his acting attorney general in an attempt to reverse the results of Georgia’s presidential election.

The plan included the replacement of then Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department attorney who was seen as more amenable to a plan to put pressure on politicians in Georgia to reverse the results of the race there. to make. Rosen had refused to support Trump’s disputed claims that voter fraud cost him the election

The plot only fell apart after a group of Justice Department (DOJ) officials discovered the plan and threatened to resign en masse if Rosen was deposed.

The report was just the latest revelation of Trump’s campaign attempt to reverse the presidential election results he had lost to President Biden. Trump had spoken out against his loss, citing unsubstantiated voter fraud claims, and tried to reverse it by filing dozens of lawsuits, pressuring state lawmakers to send his backers to electoral college instead of Biden voters, even relying on the former vice president Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard Pence Trump planned to oust acting AG to reverse Georgia’s election results: report of Trump actions illustrates why Congress must pass the For the People Act Cheney tests Trump’s grip on GOP after presidency MORE to block the certification of Biden’s victory.

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