3, 2021, Oval Office meeting at which Trump contemplated naming Clark - who led the department’s civil division - as acting attorney general in place of Jeffrey Rosen, who resisted Trump’s efforts to involve the agency. Three other former Justice Department officials will be testifying, including about an extraordinary Jan. of efforts underway to investigate the attempts by Trump and his allies. We stand by Jeff and so must all patriots in this country.”Ĭlark’s activities at the Justice Department, particularly his advocacy for Trump’s voter fraud claims, are part of Thursday’s House hearing investigating the riot. 18, 2019, file photo, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies on Capitol Hill. “All because Jeff saw fit to investigate voter fraud. “Yesterday more than a dozen DOJ law enforcement officials searched Jeff Clark’s house in a pre dawn raid, put him in the streets in his pjs, and took his electronic devices,” Vought tweeted. Trump’s inner circle was warned by several Republican lawmakers that without evidence of fraud, their plan to subvert the Electoral College would almost certainly fail, text messages obtained by. Repeatedly, one name has surfaced as combatting Trump's efforts to enlist the Justice Department in his political effort: former acting deputy attorney general Richard P. The search at Clark’s home was also confirmed on Twitter by Russ Vought, president of the Center for Renewing America, which Clark recently joined as a senior fellow. Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald turned over his phone to federal agents Wednesday when they approached him outside his car in Las Vegas and presented a warrant, according to another person familiar with the situation. The person who confirmed the search was not authorized to discuss it by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.Īmong those who have received subpoenas, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation, was Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer. The reason for the search of Clark’s Virginia home was not immediately clear and it was not known what information agents were searching for.
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The committee held a hearing Thursday that was expected to feature Trump’s desire to install Clark atop the Justice Department in his administration’s last days. 6 insurrection says it has new evidence of Trump’s efforts and knowledge that there was no legal basis to overturn the election. Supreme Court.The news of law enforcement action in three states suggested that the Justice Department is further accelerating its investigation into pro-Trump efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the U.S. Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states won by Democrat Joe Biden, also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Also on Monday, the voting machine company Dominion Systems filed a defamation suit against Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani for his repeatedly false claims about widespread voting fraud in the election.Įlection officials across the country, along with Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed there was no widespread fraud in the election. Capitol and a second impeachment of Trump, this time for inciting an insurrection. The watchdog’s probe is part of a growing number of efforts underway to investigate the attempts by Trump and his allies to subvert the election results. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded the inspector general launch a probe “into this attempted sedition.” The New York Democrat said it was “unconscionable a Trump Justice Department leader would conspire to subvert the people’s will.” The Justice Department watchdog investigation follows a report in The New York Times that a former assistant attorney general, Jeffrey Clark, had been discussing a plan with then-President Donald Trump to oust the acting attorney general and try to challenge the results of the 2020 race by falsely saying there had been widespread election fraud. Lindsey Graham criticizes Ted Cruz’s effort to overturn …
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