Mr. Clark caused outrage among his [Trump Justice Department] colleagues by advancing false election fraud claims and seeking to intervene in the presidential election in Georgia. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/14/us/politics/trump-georgia-indictment-key-players [Scott] Perry was deeply involved in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He connected former president Trump with…
King of Spades: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, hapless leader of pro-Putin wing of GOP
“You’ve got two camps right now of people who should speak out and haven’t. The first camp knows Trump is a dangerous and vindictive man but doesn’t want to upend their lives by provoking his ire. The second camp is more nakedly transactional.” – Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of…
Nine of Diamonds: U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL), sought Trump pardon for role in trying to overturn 2020 election
Conscience-free Matt Gaetz: Ambitiously joined conspiracy to overturn 2020 election, blamed feds for Capitol insurrection & gleefully campaigned for Arizona election deniers Texts to Meadows as early as three days after Election Day 2020 show lawmakers rallying around the idea of alternate electors. As early as the first or second week of December, the White…
King of Clubs: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), Big Lie enabler, backed Eastman’s plan to delay certification
Poor Ted – unmanned, unprincipled, unliked, yet drowning in ambition: “The call was just one step in a collaboration [between Trump and Cruz] that for two months turned the once-bitter political enemies into close allies in the effort to keep Trump in the White House based on the president’s false claims about a stolen election….