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After the end of his presidential term, Donald Trump went to his residence in Florida.
According to media reports, Trump wanted to invalidate the vote in the state of Georgia / Illustration REUTERS
The 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, planned to replace the Attorney General, so that his protégé would support statements about the falsification of the presidential elections.
Write about this The Washington Post.
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According to the newspaper, in early January, Trump planned to remove him from office. Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and replacing him with Jeffrey Clarke, who headed the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the United States Department of Justice.
“Before the attack on the Capitol, there was a failed coup attempt at the Justice Department, conceived by the President of the United States,” said former Ministry official David Laufman.
Clark was supposed to help Trump stay longer in power with the help of the ministry’s mechanisms, but in the end, the then-president was dissuaded from this plan.
The newspaper writes that Trump was actually planning to take over the Justice Department, which could have unpredictable consequences. Clarke himself denied having developed any plans to eliminate Rosen.
An adviser to the 45th president told The Washington Post that he really wanted the United States to investigate the “electoral fraud” that the system “suffered for years.”
The New York Times reports that Trump, with Clark’s help, wanted to invalidate the results of the vote in the state of Georgia. According to the newspaper, several key US Justice Department officials hinted that they would resign if Rosen was fired, after which Trump abandoned his idea.
The assault on the Capitol and the possible impeachment of Trump
- On January 6, 2021, in Washington, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building while a special joint meeting of both houses of Congress was held on the subject of counting and approving electoral college votes for the presidency and the vice presidency of the United States. State.
- After several hours of rioting, the police expelled the protesters from the Capitol building. The extraordinary meeting resumed and the congressmen confirmed the victory of the Democratic Party candidate Biden in the presidential elections.
- Trump has previously stated that he considers the impeachment brought by the Democratic Party against him to be the largest “witch hunt” in the history of politics.
- On January 13, the House of Representatives of the United States Congress declared an impeachment of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for his role in inciting a crowd of supporters to storm the Capitol.
- On January 22, 2021, it was known that Trump’s impeachment process in the United States Senate (upper house of Congress) will begin next week.
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