From a political viewpoint, this is strangest phenomenon I have ever seen in my 50 years of following American politics.
Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. Republican candidates vie for his endorsement. He is the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 Presidential election.
And Donald Trump is in trouble.
The
Times explains, "Jeffrey A. Rosen, who was acting attorney general during the Trump administration, has told the Justice Department watchdog and congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former President Donald J. Trump subvert the results of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the interviews.
"Mr. Rosen had a two-hour meeting on Friday with the Justice Department’s office of the inspector general and provided closed-door testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday.
"The investigations were opened after a New York Times article that
detailed efforts by Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division, to push top leaders to falsely and publicly assert that continuing election fraud investigations cast doubt on the Electoral College results. That prompted Mr. Trump to consider ousting Mr. Rosen and installing Mr. Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan."
Trump never fired Rosen, but the plot highlights the former president’s desire to batter the Justice Department into advancing his unproven claim that the election was stolen from him.
This issue is on every major network, in every major newspaper in the country, and it is plastered all over the internet.
Here is the strange part. Republican lawmakers seeking his favor are all silent on the issue. Republican lawmakers make no attempt to defend Trump. Regarding Republicans in Congress, their silence is deafening.
Republicans on this forum completely ignore Trump when it comes his foolish attempt to subvert the Department of Justice.
As if to prove my point, Republicans on this forum will not address the issue.
