Pressure on Trump loyalist Jeffrey Clark as ex-DoJ colleague works with prosecutors

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(Guardian UK) Legal pressure on Jeffrey Clark, the former justice department lawyer who schemed with Donald Trump and others to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia and other states, is expected to rise with the cooperation of another ex-DoJ lawyer who worked with him, say former prosecutors.

The cooperation from the ex-lawyer, in tandem with other evidence obtained by prosecutors, could help spur charges against Clark – a close ally of then president Trump – and benefit prosecutors as they go after bigger targets.

Clark, then an assistant attorney general, played a key role at the DoJ towards the end of the Trump administration, which overlapped with plotting by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman and Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to persuade Georgia and other states to use “fake electors” for Trump, instead of ones that Joe Biden won.

In Trump’s desperate efforts to block Biden’s win, he turned to Clark for help at the suggestion of congressman Scott Perry, who had also touted him to Meadows, according to emails revealed by the House January 6 committee investigating the Capitol riot by Trump supporters. .......(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/06/trump-pressure-doj-jeffrey-clark-prosecutors

[Samrob]

1. The J6 hearings will be very, very interesting when they resume. nt

[PortTack]

2. Didn't Clark already appear b4 the j/6 cmte and plead the 5th...on every question?

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Maybe bring him back for an encore performance.

Lay out Clark's ascendancy in the Trump DOJ and then ask him if he wants to reconsider his responses?

[Deminpenn]

4. Yes

Nt