Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark is about to go through some things
For several weeks now, various details have been leaking out to the mainstream media about how Donald Trump tried to pressure the Department of Justice to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. Based on these leaks it’s clear that Trump never came close to succeeding with these criminal antics, because no one at the DOJ was interested in going down with that ship – except for one certain guy.
Each new leak in this scandal has increasingly made clear that a guy named Jeffrey Clark, who served as the acting head of DOJ’s civil division, eagerly got on board with Donald Trump’s pipe dream of overthrowing the election. Now new reporting from ABC News reveals that Clark drafted letters containing false election information, which he wanted to send to the six states that Trump pretended he won.
Clark was shot down by his DOJ bosses on this – a reminder that while Trump was usually able to find one wide eyed clown here or there who was willing to go along with his criminal antics, Trump generally had difficulty getting entire agencies to go along with such antics.
Despite the hyperbolic doomsday manner in which some pundits are spinning this story, Trump’s election antics didn’t come anywhere close to working. But that doesn’t make Trump’s actions any less criminal. This constitutes election fraud and obstruction of justice. Moreover, if the reporting on the matter is correct, then Jeffrey Clark also committed these same felonies.
At this point it’s difficult to imagine that Jeffrey Clark won’t face consequences for this. We say this because the details of his crimes are clearly being leaked by the people who worked with him, around him, and above him. If Trump-era DOJ bosses like Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Donoghue are selling out Clark like this because they want to make clear that they didn’t participate in his antics, then they’re effectively serving up Clark to the current DOJ on a silver platter for criminal prosecution.
The DOJ generally makes charging decisions based on odds of conviction, and credible inside witnesses go a long way to determining those odds. If Rosen and Donoghue serve as cooperating witnesses, then prosecuting Clark would be a slam dunk. Of course at that point Clark’s only real option would be to cut an immunity deal in exchange for flipping on Donald Trump.
