So we’ve learned of the pressure Trump and his helpers applied to the Department of Justice to get it to play along with Trump’s Big Lie.

Did this come as a surprise to anyone at all? If we learn Al Capone has bribed a government official, that too is no news. These crimes are noteworthy, to be sure, but they are not news because they are only what we should expect.

We learn too that it was not only a matter of White House exerting pressure on the D.O.J., but there was also a Quisling at work in the D.O.J. I refer to Jeffrey Bossert Clark, an assistant Attorney General, who seems to have been ready to sabotage the D.O.J. to ingratiate himself with Trump. We should not simply blow off Mr. Clark with a “sleaze will be sleaze” shrug, but investigation is required into his activities at the D.O.J.