A disciplinary hearing last week for Donald Trump‘s ex-Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark showcased the high bar prosecutors must reach in their effort to prove alleged crimes the former president and others are accused of committing in the buildup to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Mike Davis, the former chief counsel for nominations to then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), told the Washington Examiner that Rosen’s point of view about Clark’s role in the DOJ sets a “very dangerous” precedent.
“The fatal flaw in the bar prosecution against Jeff Clark is they don’t think he reported to the president of the United States, and he absolutely reported to the president … just like every other employee in the executive branch, especially a senior Senate-confirmed officer in the Justice Department,” Davis said.
Davis’s concerns were touched on during testimony on Tuesday by former White House counsel Patrick Philbin, who said there were many internal disagreements over what had been done and what should be done about alleged irregularities in the 2020 election results in Georgia. He also said he believed that Clark acted with sincerity, that Clark “felt essentially that he had a duty, where you think something wrong is happening … and he was the one who was sort of put on the spot and had to do something about it.”
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