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A new court filing by the House says that ex- President Donald Trump was involved in a criminal conspiracy.

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Donald Trump was not concerned about upending the 2020 presidential election by pulling what was described to him as a national political move. Richard Donoghue told the House select committee that he wanted to know if he had anything to lose.

Pat Cipollone, a former White House counsel, and Justice Department officials met with Trump in the Oval Office and railed against a post- election plan from Jeffrey Clark, a Trump supporter. According to Donoghue's account of the conversation, Clark wanted to distribute letters to state legislatures saying that the election may have been stolen and urging them to reconsider their certified election results.

According to a transcript of Donoghue's interview with Cipollone, he told Trump that the letterClark wants to send is a murder-suicide pact. We should not have anything to do with that letter.

The startling account was included in the committee's response to a lawsuit from Trump's lawyer.

According to Donoghue, Trump seemed unperturbed by the warning and only worried about himself. He was considering replacing Jeffrey Rosen with Clark so he could carry out his plan. William Barr had resigned as attorney general because of his dispute with Trump over the election results.

The president asked what he had to lose. Donoghue asked the House committee what he had to lose if he did this.

Mr. President, you have a lot to lose, Donoghue said. Is this how you want your administration to end? You are going to hurt the country.

Clark was attacked by Donoghue for being woefully unqualified to be attorney general and for grabbing half-baked election fraud theories off the internet to peddle to Trump.

According to the transcript, Donoghue told the committee that Jeff Clark is not competent to serve as Attorney General. He has never conducted a criminal investigation in his life. He has never been in front of a grand jury.

The committee argued in its response that it has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.

The filing states that Trump knew the election was legitimate yet he took action to overturn it.

The full account of Trump's conversation with the House select committee is here.

The article was originally on HuffPost.

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