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#Former acting attorney about subvert election install#
Trump's determination to install Clark as the nation's top law enforcement official was apparent - Jan. Donoghue showed handwritten notes he had taken during a call with Trump, in which the former president said, "Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the congressmen." Steven Engel, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, from left, Jeffrey Rosen, former acting Attorney General, and Richard Donoghue, former acting Deputy Attorney General, are sworn in to testify. Three former Justice Department officials testified before the committee Thursday -– former acting deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and former Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel. In video testimony, former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann, said of Clark that "best I can tell, the only thing you know about environmental and elections challenges is they both start with 'E.'" Installing Clark and the pressure campaign on the Justice Department amounted to "essentially a political coup," committee chair Rep.
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Adam Kinzinger, who led the questioning Thursday, said Clark's only qualification was that "he would do whatever the president wanted him to do." Trump wanted to fire acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen - who had just taken over in December 2020, after Attorney General Bill Barr's resignation became official - and to replace him with Clark, an environmental lawyer who had never prosecuted a criminal case. Capitol focused Thursday's hearing on the efforts of then-President Donald Trump and former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark to pressure the department to help overturn the 2020 election results. The House committee investigating the Jan.