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Trump continued to try to pressure Rosen and the deputy attorney general, Richard Donoghue, and was eventually linked up with Clark, a Federalist Society member whom Trump had appointed to be the acting head the DOJ’s Civil Division - and who backed the president’s baseless stolen-election claims.Īccording to a second Times report published on Saturday, central Pennsylvania representative Scott Perry was the one who introduced Trump to Clark, thus providing Trump with a likeminded ally in the Justice Department, albeit a low-level one who would ordinarily not have any contacts with the president. The day after Trump announced on December 14 that Barr was stepping down, he met with Rosen, Barr’s replacement, to personally pressure him to support the lawsuit as well as, according to the Journal, appoint a special counsel to investigate Trump’s fraud claims. The DOJ officials refused, viewing the lawsuit as legally baseless. Supreme Court to overturn the election result. They would resign.įurthermore, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that before allying with Clark, Trump had also tried and failed to pressure former attorney general William Barr, Rosen, and former solicitor general Jeffrey Wall to file a lawsuit with the U.S. Rosen is dismissed? The answer was unanimous. The department officials, convened on a conference call, then asked each other: What will you do if Mr. Trump was about to decide whether to fire Mr. Rosen had refused the president’s entreaties to carry out those plans, Mr.

Trump’s continuing legal battles and the pressure on Georgia politicians. The unassuming lawyer who worked on the plan, Jeffrey Clark, had been devising ways to cast doubt on the election results and to bolster Mr. Trump never put the plan into action because several DOJ officials threatened to resign if he fired Rosen: Capitol, he and a Justice Department lawyer hatched a last-ditch plot to replace former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen in order to weaponize the DOJ in support of Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, the New York Times reported Friday night. Just days before former president Donald Trump incited a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images He’s gone, but we’re still learning more about how far he considered going to stay in power.