New revelations betray depth of Trump’s post-election schemes
Wednesday’s revelations alone underscored the vast scope of the committee’s investigation, the troubling breadth of the subversion effort and what increasingly looks like a Trump world cover-up.
- In another staggering development, The Washington Post reported that Trump’s onetime lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a Republican prosecutor in Michigan to hand over county voting machines, based on a false cheating conspiracy theory.
- The committee has now subpoenaed yet another key former White House official, Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro, who played a major role in elevating false conspiracy theories about a stolen election.
- And late on Wednesday, The New York Times reported that some of the documents improperly taken to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort were believed to have been classified. While a President can declassify any material at any time, the story suggests Trump is guilty of gross hypocrisy given his criticism of Hillary Clinton over classified material on her email server that may have cost her the 2016 election.
New details defy Trump’s cover-up effort
Wednesday’s torrent of disclosures only hints at the size of the election-stealing effort operated out of the Trump White House and of the House committee’s investigation of events that culminated in one of the darkest days in US political history.
If there is any comfort for those who believe in American democracy, it is that all of the schemes failed — often due to the courage of local and state officials, many of them Republicans. But it became ever more clear Wednesday that an ex-President and a corps of fellow believers were willing to attempt to defy the will of voters with authoritarian measures.
That reality underscores the grave danger facing future elections in the US. Trump is seeking to insert like-minded activists and candidates in key positions overseeing elections in what looks like an attempt to destroy safeguards that prevented him from stealing the last election. It is also alarming that while US foes like Russia and China are escalating efforts to discredit democracy in the US and worldwide, their goals are shared by Americans working to destroy it from the inside.
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