‘ASSURED FAILURE’: Trump’s Then White House Lawyer Admits to Engineering Plot To Prevent Investigating 2020 Election Fraud, Swamp Ran Deep

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Trump’s White House lawyer admitted to engineering a plan, with the help of top DOJ officials, to prevent any investigation into 2020 election fraud. The DOJ never investigated any of the incidents witnessed by the GOP and the courts cooperated.

Mind you, the Democrats are going after all of Trump’s staffers and lawyers. This latest bombshell revelation was revealed in a court case to disbar Jeff Clark, ex-US Department of Justice official and Donald Trump co-defendant in the Georgia 2020 “election interference” case.

Former Trump Deputy White House counsel Pat Philbin gave his first public testimony about the final days of the Trump presidency since leaving his post in 2021.
Philbin testified that Trump had wanted to replace the leadership of the Justice Department with Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ official who believed the election fraud should be investigated.

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“I believe that he felt that he essentially had a duty,” Philbin said, according to the report, of his longtime colleague. “I think Jeff’s view was that there was a real crisis in the country and that he was being given an opportunity to do something about it.”

“When Philbin warned Clark that there would be riots in every major American city if Trump reversed the outcome of the election, Clark responded, ‘Well, Pat, that’s what the Insurrection Act is for,’ Philbin recalled.”

“I tried to explain to him that it was a bad idea for multiple reasons,” Philbin emphasized in his testimony. “He would be starting down a path of assured failure … If by some miracle somehow, it worked, there’d be riots in every major city in the country and it was not an outcome the country would accept.”

Breaking news form the left wing Politico:

‘Assured failure’: Ex-White House lawyer provides new details of final days of Trump’s 2020 election gambit

By Kyle Cheney, Politico, March 26, 2024:

Donald Trump’s deputy White House counsel, Pat Philbin, was nervous.

It was just a few days until Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress was slated to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, and Trump had suddenly resuscitated a plan to replace the leadership of the Justice Department with Jeffrey Clark, a little known DOJ official who Trump expected to mount a sweeping nationwide effort to help him remain in power.

So Philbin called Clark, a colleague from their days in private practice dating back to the 1990s and tried to talk him out of it.

“I tried to explain to him that it was a bad idea for multiple reasons,” Philbin recalled Tuesday at a long-delayed disbarment hearing for Clark. “He would be starting down a path of assured failure … If by some miracle somehow, it worked, there’d be riots in every major city in the country and it was not an outcome the country would accept.”

It was Philbin’s first public testimony about the chaotic final days of the Trump presidency since he left the White House. Though Philbin has spoken to both the Jan. 6 select committee and the federal grand jury that indicted Trump for his effort to seize a second term, no transcript or recording of his remarks has even been released.

Philbin’s description of his interactions with Clark shed new light on the frenzied effort by Trump to remake the Justice Department into a tool of his bid to cling to power despite losing the election — a remarkable new account more than three years after a mob of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol in his name. His testimony followed Richard Donoghue, a former acting deputy attorney general.

Together, the two men described a White House that had let down all guardrails, with conspiracy theories about election fraud reaching Trump, who was an eager recipient of even implausible claims of fraud. Clark, too, embraced some of those claims, they said.
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Zeus
Zeus
29 days ago

This is why We The People better provide the necessary back up.

There were enough traitors in high places to turn legitimate opposition to an obvious steal into the accusation of a coup. We The People were still too drugged up on lies to see through what was happening, and we would have murdered each other over it.

TRM
TRM
28 days ago
Reply to  Zeus

Trump trying to steal a legitimate election he lost isn’t legitimate opposition.

turtlebrat
turtlebrat
28 days ago
Reply to  TRM

what utter lies by a troll for jobaba

JoeyJ
JoeyJ
27 days ago
Reply to  TRM

Is there any set of evidence or facts that would cause you to reconsider whether the election was stolen or not? Or does the fact that it was stolen from Trump make all these activities valid?

Similarly, would anything convince you that the Covid-19 “vaccine” is bio-weapon? Perhaps your young, healthy son dropping dead at soccer practice?

Or, how about that same son coming home from school without his penis which was removed without your knowledge or consent?

How’s that “Destroy Trump no matter what the cost” plan working out for you these days?

Patti
Patti
29 days ago

SO many need to go to the gallows!

Zeus
Zeus
29 days ago
Reply to  Patti

We need a bigger gallows.

We should have been dragging traitors to trees the day after the 2020 election. We should have done that long before Trump ran for office, but we didn’t realize what was happening to us.

turtlebrat
turtlebrat
28 days ago
Reply to  Zeus

it’s never too late to fix our Republic from the deep state obama/clinton treason.

TRM
TRM
28 days ago
Reply to  Patti

Start with Trump and Clark.

danknight
danknight
29 days ago

Anyone surprised? … It was rather obvious.

What was unforeseen … was the escalation of the vindictive witch hunts to include Trump’s attorneys. That’s a new level of evil. Which will shortly be surpassed by yet more evil and wickedness.

garry pollackD
garry pollack
28 days ago
Reply to  danknight

Eph 6;12….

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
28 days ago

What do we have now, it’s not an insurrection with Biden. It couldn’t be any worse with Trump winning a second term.

turtlebrat
turtlebrat
28 days ago
Reply to  Stephen Honig

yeah its so great now with jobama destroying America

_WhiteySupreme_
_WhiteySupreme_
28 days ago

Are we still calling it the White House? How much longer before it gets painted pink with chartreuse shutters?

gfmucci
gfmucci
28 days ago

So, let the fraud stand, intimidated by big city addicts, leftists, illegals, ignorants, anti-Semites, welfare recipients and globalists.

Last edited 28 days ago by gfmucci
ron
ron
28 days ago

The whore wipes her face and says “I have done no wrong.”

Mark Joseph Huber
Mark Joseph Huber
28 days ago

The Politico article is entirely illogical and self contradictory. It reports that the election fraud concerns were never investigated but presumes they are fallacious without substantiation their premise. However, much of the fraud is self evident because a number of states openly and publicly violated their own statutes. Politico’s article is itself abject evidence of the depravity and corruption of Trump’s critics. Trump was the apparent overwhelming favorite, sweeping to a landslide when we watched a series of shenanigans unfold before our very eyes.

fir
fir
28 days ago

As well as biased against DJT evident in its wording

TRM
TRM
28 days ago

More of the usual fake news. Bill Barr had already investigated the election fraud claims and found them to be baseless. Clark was going to claim election fraud even thought there wasn’t any as part of Trump’s coup plot.

Anne
Anne
28 days ago
Reply to  TRM

According to an FBI whistle blower who was ready to begin an investigation into the election, Barr forbid him to do so. Plausible deniability…….. Can’t find what y0u don’t look for.

turtlebrat
turtlebrat
28 days ago
Reply to  Anne

true true true as bagpipes barr was deep state and Trump did not understand the depth and perfidy of the deep state

turtlebrat
turtlebrat
28 days ago
Reply to  TRM

Bagpipes Barr was in on the steal and was deep state to the max. You are fake news trolling for jobama.

turtlebrat
turtlebrat
28 days ago
Reply to  TRM

bagpipes barr was deep state and any investigation from him was not true

_WhiteySupreme_
_WhiteySupreme_
28 days ago
Reply to  turtlebrat

Opus Dei bagpipes barr

nicholas tesdorf
nicholas tesdorf
27 days ago

He’s a Lawyer … what else do you expect?

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