#FORMER ACTING ATTORNEY TRUMPS EFFORTS SUBVERT FREE# On Wednesday, the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol voted to pursue criminal contempt charges against Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who schemed with Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election results. Clark had refused to cooperate with the committee’s inquiry, citing Trump’s legal efforts to block its probe. Yet before officially requesting the Justice Department to prosecute Clark, the committee did offer him one more chance and asked that he come in for a deposition on Saturday. And Clark has agreed to sit down with the panel. But there’s a catch: his lawyer has indicated he will plead the Fifth Amendment and not answer certain questions.Īfter the election, Clark, the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division (who had no authority over election issues), schemed with Trump and pressed top department officials to falsely state that its fraud investigations had cast doubt on the election results. When acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen resisted this pressure, Trump considered firing him and appointing Clark as acting attorney general so he could carry out the plot. In a worse-than-Watergate moment, Trump also directly leaned on Rosen and his top deputy, Richard Donaghue, to declare the 2020 election corrupt, though the Justice Department had found no instances of consequential fraud. #FORMER ACTING ATTORNEY TRUMPS EFFORTS SUBVERT FREE#Īnd when Donoghue told Trump that the department could not undo the election results, Trump said, according to the notes Donoghue took, “Just say that the election was corrupt leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.” (R stands for Republican.)Ĭlark is a key witness in the 1/6 committee’s investigation.
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