Trump’s “Murder-Suicide Pact”
Senate Judiciary Committee Releases Report on Donald Trump's Scheme to Pressure DOJ & Overturn the 2020 Election.
The Senate report, “Subverting Justice,” details how Trump and his loyalists threatened a wholesale takeover of the DOJ. Trump backed down after staff threatened mass resignations and White House counsel Pat Cipollone, called Trump’s plan a “murder-suicide pact.”
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows accompanies President Donald Trump as he departs the White House on Oct. 21, 2020. (Amanda Voisard for The Washington Post)
By Paul Waldman
All the reporting and investigations of Trump’s coup attempt make clear that the effort to overturn the election was haphazard, ad hoc, and deeply stupid, yet all at the same time utterly terrifying. It’s a good lesson: the people who do the most damage to our country and democracy aren’t necessarily brilliant supervillains.
President Trump demanded the Justice Department reject the 2020 election results numerous times, according to a new Senate report.