US elections: Donald Trump’s post-presidency plans revealed

Donald Trump has been quiet about his future plans after leaving office, telling a reporter at his golf club on Friday that “we will do something, but not yet.”

But one of his key advisers, Jason Miller, has revealed in a podcast interview with Carrie Sheffield of Just the News what the former US president’s next steps will be.

Despite rumors that Trump was toying with the idea of ​​forming his own political party, the “Patriot Party,” Miller said his boss was focused on something more important: electoral integrity.

Miller said Trump intended to help Republicans win back the House and Senate in 2022 “to make sure we can stop the Democratic madness,” and that “they will also see him emerge as the leader of the nation on the ballot and the integrity of the vote “. .

But the adviser said that would never happen in Washington, DC because Democrats didn’t believe there was a problem with the election, so Trump would work with individual state legislatures on voting reform.

“As we saw, an important thing to keep in mind, much of our debate between the elections and up until a couple of weeks ago was about these abuses of Article 2 and the Constitution, where only state legislatures can really go and establish (the rules for voting by mail), “Miller said.

“This is something that we are going to start increasing, not right away. We will give them a little transition period, but this is critical and we have to do it.”

Trump conspired to overthrow Acting AG

Trump came close to ousting his Acting Attorney General in favor of a Justice Department attorney who would have helped him overturn the election results, but backed down after top officials vowed to resign en masse, according to a new report. .

The New York Times, citing interviews with four anonymous former Trump administration officials, describes how Jeffrey Clark, a modest attorney who headed the department’s civil division, came close to being appointed acting attorney general to replace Jeffrey Rosen, who had been resisted the president’s pleas to beef up his legal battles and pressure state legislatures.

According to The Times, Rosen rejected Trump’s requests for the Justice Department to file legal briefs supporting the demands of his allies seeking to overturn the election results and appoint special advisers to investigate voter fraud.

Clark was reportedly taken in by Trump because of his support for the president’s claims that the election was stolen. The New York Times says that Trump’s decision not to fire Rosen “came only after Rosen and Clark presented their competing cases to him in a strange meeting at the White House that two officials compared to an episode of the reality show in London. Trump The Apprentice, albeit one that could spark a constitutional crisis. “

In the end, senior Justice Department officials called in a conference call agreed that if Rosen were replaced, they would all resign. Trump was persuaded to keep Rosen in his place, fearing the furor the massive resignations at the Justice Department would cause, according to The New York Times.