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#Attorney general testifies trumps efforts subvert install#

3, 2021, the White House was already referring to him by that title, according to evidence the committee presented.

#Attorney general testifies trumps efforts subvert install#

Trump’s plan to install Clark in that role came close enough to fruition that by Jan.

They argued that promoting Clark would ensure that the Justice Department would use its authority to question the election outcome. In December 2020, Trump and Clark pushed for the DOJ to send Georgia election officials a letter that falsely said the department had “identified significant concerns” that would throw the state’s election results into doubt.Īfter Donoghue and other high-ranking officials resisted Trump’s pressure, the former president and several Republican members of Congress mobilized a campaign to replace the current acting attorney general at the time, Jeff Rosen, with Clark. Much of the hearing centered on former Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Clark, whose efforts to exploit the nation’s top law enforcement agency to push baseless conspiracy theories about election fraud quickly brought him to Trump’s attention. Pardon Attorney Margaret Love told TIME the president could have issued pardons to members of Congress without ever publicizing them or even notifying the Justice Department.

While no such pardons were ever revealed, it’s not clear whether Trump may have granted any of the lawmakers clemency in secret.