When Rosen learned of this plan, he spoke to top officials at the DOJ who agreed that they would resign if Rosen were replaced. In the face of Rosen’s refusal to engage in a plan to make false assertions of election fraud, Clark and the president concocted a scheme to fire Rosen and appoint Clark as the Acting Attorney General. And dozens of courts had rejected fraud claims from Trump lawyers. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security called the election “the most secure in American history.” By the time of Clark’s letter, two Georgia recounts had occurred confirming Joe Biden’s win. In early December, just before leaving office, then-Attorney General William Barr announced that he had found no fraud significant enough to change any election result. Accordingly, both Rosen and his deputy refused to issue the letter. The letter, however, was patently false as no such concerns existed. In particular, Clark had drafted a letter that he urged Rosen to sign and send to Georgia and several other states, claiming that the DOJ had “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election.”
Except that the events were perilously real. In describing Clark’s aggressive efforts on behalf of the president to involve the DOJ in overturning the election, the report reads like a novel. Aptly entitled Subverting Justice, the report details the key role played by Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark in attempting to convince Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to falsely declare that the DOJ believed the election results in several states may have been fraudulent.
The Senate Judiciary Committee issued a scathing report that describes former President Trump’s attempts to use the Department of Justice to subvert the 2020 election.
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