More deep state coup

[Loren Pechtel]

Trump ally Clark attempted 'coup' at US Justice Dept, ethics counsel says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jeffrey Clark, a former senior official in the U.S. Justice Department, made false claims as he attempted to enlist the agency in former President Donald Trump's efforts to undo his 2020 election loss, a Washington ethics lawyer said on Tuesday. Clark is facing a...

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(I would have thought there was a thread for this but if there is I'm missing it)

Making up justice department claims of vote fraud.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

The Clark letter was discussed a few years ago in the January 6 thread. Maybe tack it onto that? Or keep this fresh thread.

https://iidb.org/threads/january-6-hearings-live.26173/page-99#post-926087

 

[Elixir]

What a pack of scalliwags.
I was getting confused … is John Eastman the same guy as Jeffery Clark?

 

[Ford]

What a pack of scalliwags.
I was getting confused … is John Eastman the same guy as Jeffery Clark?

I would say "cut from the same cloth."

In a way, Trump did "drain the swamp." He weeded out every last halfway honest bureaucrat within spitting distance of the White House, and only the creme de la crooked were left by the end of his administration.

And "the swamp" is an interesting analogy. A swamp appears bad - smelly, rotting, filled with all sorts of weird plants and creatures - but is actually a thriving and vital ecosystem that is nonetheless fragile and easily destroyed. Our government can be a messy, disorganized and sometimes dirty thing, but it works, and provides a necessary role in keeping the whole ecosystem (the country) from falling apart.

Trump is a real estate developer, so of course when he sees a swamp, he wants to bulldoze it and build something there he can sell. Now that I think about it, this is one of those "full circle" moments for me. See, I grew up a few hundred feet from a marsh. My first memory of government was going to a town council meeting with my parents and other neighborhood residents who were trying to stop a real estate developer from turning the place into another subdivision. The original (where we lived) was planned in the late 40's, and the developer went under halfway through the project, leaving our street (and a few houses) across from the remaining marsh, which sat undeveloped for at least a decade. We (the neighborhood) decided that we liked having it there rather than more construction, so we tried to save it. We won, and it is a protected wildlife refuge and part of a state wildlife area.