Justice Department Officials Threatened — Trump Considers Replacing Acting AG with Loyalist (2021-01-03)
Trump considers replacing Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ official who supports Trump's election fraud claims. Trump meets with Clark at the White House. Rosen and Deputy AG Richard Donoghue threaten to resign en masse if Trump installs Clark. The episode, which Rosen later describes as an attempted coup at DOJ, is detailed in the January 6 committee's final report and leads to ethics investigations of Clark.
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