A stark portrayal of Jeffrey Clark is emerging from former Trump-appointed officials who were alarmed by his backchannel efforts to the White House and to Trump allies, and who now are now providing testimony to congressional committees.
Jeffrey Clark, a Donald Trump-appointed environment law chief at the Justice Department at the center of the former President's efforts to overturn the election, received a high-level intelligence briefing around New Year's 2021 that did little to stop his efforts to prove foreign interference had cost Trump reelection.
Clark is now a major figure in the narrative being written in documents and testimony from former Justice Department officials who were forced to fight off his efforts to orchestrate a coup of leadership at the Justice Department and use it to help the former President.
Timeline shows how days leading up to Capitol riot unfolded 02:33Clark wasn't swayed by what he heard from Ratcliffe, a Trump loyalist who had stirred controversy with comments seeking to support Trump's pre-election foreign interference claims that China and Iran were working to elect Joe Biden just as Russia was trying to support Trump.
'He's just making stuff up!': Berman reacts to Trump loyalist's letter 02:38Clark isn't scheduled yet for an interview with the House Select Committee investigating January 6 and is awaiting access to documents the committee has and to see whether a fight over the secrecy of presidential discussions materializes, according to a person familiar with Clark's thinking.
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