Jeffrey Clark, the former Department of Justice official who found favor in the Trump administration for his embrace of election fraud conspiracy theories, is meeting with the House committee investigating the Capitol riot.
In November, Clark refused to comply with a subpoena from the committee, which quickly voted to hold him in contempt of Congress.
The committee decided to delay sending their contempt recommendation to the full House when Clark indicated that he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The committee said it would like to meet with Clark to see what questions he’d be willing to answer before they resumed their contempt bid.
News & Guts previous coverage of Clark’s role in trying to undermine the 2020 presidential election provides key context:
In October, the Senate Judiciary Committee released a report indicating that Clark was eager to open an official DOJ investigation into voter fraud, even though no evidence existed to support the investigation. According to the report, Trump considered installing Clark as acting attorney general, but top DOJ brass threatened to resign en masse if such a move was made.
CBS News adds:
The report found that as an assistant attorney general, Clark proposed urging state legislators in Georgia to delay the certification of the Senate election there. The committee also said he pleaded with Jeffrey Rosen, the acting attorney general at the time, to hold a press conference and say “there was corruption” in the election despite no evidence there was.
