Justice Department official Richard Donoghue shown in a slide presented at the House select committee hearing on Thursday. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.īehind the scenes, Clark had rocketed from overseeing the civil division of the Justice Department to Trump’s pick to take over as the nation’s top prosecutor in the final days of his administration, after others including former Attorney General William Barr flatly told Trump that he had lost the election and his election fraud theories were baseless. It very may well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis,” Donoghue told members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. “For the department to insert itself into the political process this way, I think would have had grave consequences for the country. 6 committee have called an attempted coup. 6 committee.įormer acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and two of his top deputies, Richard Donoghue and Steven Engel, detailed at length the pivotal showdown where they stopped a lower-level environmental lawyer, Jeffrey Clark, from pressuring state legislatures to send fake electors to Washington as part of Trump’s attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss - an effort lawmakers on the Jan. 3, 2021, a a group of top Department of Justice officials stopped then-President Donald Trump from installing an ally to take over the Justice Department and enact a plan that might have illegally kept Trump in power, according to testimony Thursday before the House Jan.
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