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Colleagues shocked ‘nerdy’ Justice Department official joins Trump’s election campaign
Former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and other top Justice Department officials lamented on New Year’s Eve that Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the DOJ’s civil division, had repeatedly pressured them to help former President Donald Trump clear his election loss to meet and meet in secret with Trump, The New York Times reported, citing six people who are aware of the meeting. Rosen thought the case was settled that night, reports the Times, but Clark continued to secretly plan with Trump to intervene in Georgia, including a conspiracy where Trump would fire Rosen and put Clark in his place. . The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post about his role in an attempt to replace Rosen and interfere in Georgia to undo Trump’s loss are inaccurate, and he claims his talks with Trump are protected under ‘legal privileges’ . Only intervention by Justice Department officials and Trump’s White House attorney Pat Cipollone, plus the threat of mass resignations, prevented Trump from firing Rosen and elevating Clark, all three newspapers reported. Even before ‘Clark’s fraud came to light in the new year’, it was evident from ‘his willingness to keep conspiracy theories about the ballot box and election fraud’ that Clark ‘was not the establishment lawyer they thought he was ‘, reports Times. ‘Some senior leaders of the department saw him as quiet, hardworking and detailed. Others said they knew nothing about him, so low was his profile. He did not consider his supporters in the department or his opponents as part of the Trumpis. the party. “Clarks’ friends and critics, according to the Times, describe him as a ‘nerd’ and ‘considerate,’ a Republican advocate and member of the Federalist Society with the usual skeptical view of regulations, not an operator. Now Clark ( 53) ‘infamous’ and he will probably not be re-employed at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, where he spent his career outside of his time in the Trump and George W. Bush administration, reports the Times. about Clark – an alumnus of Harvard, Georgetown Law and the Biden School of Public Policy at the University of Delaware – at The New York Times More stories from theweek.com 5 hilarious cartoons about Biden’s COVID-19 print ‘No’ way ‘McConnell had a post-Trump’ epiphany, ‘political scientist says Biden fools low-balls America’s COVID response