They will view it as not having the authority to enforce what needs to be done.”ĭOJ official warned Clark’s plan could lead to ‘grave, constitutional crisis’įormer acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue said he tried to convey to Jeffrey Clark that a draft letter he circulated seeking to ask Georgia’s governor and other top state officials to convene the state legislature into a special session to investigate claims of voter fraud - which didn’t exist - could launch the country into a “constitutional crisis.”
“I just got off the phone with him and he explained to me why the principal deputy won’t work especially with the FBI. The next text, sent 30 minutes later, showed Perry telling Meadows to “call Jeff.” We gotta get going,” Perry wrote to Meadows on Dec. 11 days to 1/6 and 25 days to inauguration. “Mark, just checking in as time continues to count down. The committee later displayed text messages which showed Perry advising White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to help with Clark’s ascension. Perry later told a local television news network he had worked with Clark before and “obliged” when asked by Trump to introduce him.
Records from the National Archives obtained by the committee showed Perry and Clark met Trump on Dec. Scott Perry, R-Penn., played a role in trying to elevate Jeffrey Clark, then an obscure DOJ official, to department leadership amid the resistance from other DOJ officials to Trump’s efforts to undermine the election. GOP congressman fought for Clark’s ascension: ‘We gotta get going’
Trump and the White House also asked the Department of Justice if it could point a special counsel to look at widespread election fraud - which did not exist - with Engel detailing why “that was not legally available,” before Kinzinger claimed Trump even offered the position of special counsel to campaign attorney Sidney Powell, as his pressure campaign continued. “Obviously, even the person who drafted this lawsuit didn’t really understand in my view the law, and or how the Supreme Court works or the Department of Justice,” Engel said. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., turned to former top DOJ lawyer Steven Engel on other efforts by Trump to pressure the department.Īfter Trump sent a proposed draft lawsuit, done outside the department, to top DOJ attorneys that he wanted to send to the Supreme Court, Engel called it a “meritless lawsuit” and an “unusual request” that the department would never bring. “And he said, ‘People tell me I should just get rid of both of you, I should just remove you and make a change in leadership, put Jeff Clark in, maybe something will finally get done.’”ĭOJ attorney recalls rejecting Trump’s ‘meritless’ proposed Supreme Court lawsuitĪfter detailing an effort by Jeffrey Clark to replace acting attorney general Jeff Rosen in order to help Trump overturn the election, Rep. “Toward the end of the meeting, the president, again, was getting very agitated,” Donoghue recalled. “There was no factual basis nor was there any legal authority to do so.” “There was nothing wrong with them so we told him no,” Rosen told the committee.
Trump, in emergency meeting, urged DOJ to seize voting machines, former officials sayįormer acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and his former deputy Richard Donoghue described Thursday how Trump tried to get the Department of Justice to seize voting machines in late 2020.ĭonoghue said an “agitated” Trump called an emergency meeting on New Year’s Eve to make the request. 6 committee is focusing on the pressure then-President Donald Trump and his allies put on the Justice Department to help overturn the 2020 election.
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