Dick Durbin, D-Ill, chair of the committee Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.
He called Rosen’s account “dramatic evidence of how intent Trump was in overthrowing the election.”īlumenthal was one of a handful of senators, including Thom Tillis, R-NC, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, who sat through most of Rosen’s more than six hours of testimony. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Rosen discussed previously reported episodes, including his interactions with Clark, with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Such a letter would effectively undermine efforts by Clark’s colleagues to prevent the White House from overturning the election results, and Rosen and his top deputy, Richard Donoghue, rejected the proposal. Clark drafted a letter that he asked Rosen to send to Georgia state legislators, wrongly asserting that they should void Biden’s victory because the Justice Department was investigating accusations of voter fraud in the state. He also discovered that Clark had been engaging in unauthorized conversations with Trump about ways to have the Justice Department publicly cast doubt on President Joe Biden’s victory, particularly in battleground states that Trump was fixated on, such as Georgia. Rosen also described subsequent exchanges with Clark, who continued to press colleagues to make statements about the election that they found to be untrue, according to a person familiar with the interview. Rosen on Friday told investigators from the inspector general’s office about five encounters with Clark, including one in late December during which his deputy admitted to meeting with Trump and pledged that he would not do so again, according to a person familiar with the interview. He has publicly stated that the Justice Department did not find enough fraud to impact the outcome of the election. Rosen has emerged as a key witness in multiple investigations that focus on Trump’s efforts to undermine the results of the election. The inspector general’s spokesperson declined to comment. Rosen did not respond to requests for comment. Trump never fired Rosen, but the plot highlights the former president’s desire to batter the Justice Department into advancing his personal agenda.Ĭlark, who did not respond to requests for comment, said in January that all of his official communications with the White House “were consistent with law,” and that he had engaged in “a candid discussion of options and pros and cons with the president.”
That prompted Trump to consider ousting Rosen and installing Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan. The investigations were opened after a New York Times article that detailed efforts by Jeffrey Clark, acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division, to push top leaders to falsely and publicly assert that ongoing election fraud investigations cast doubt on the Electoral College results. Rosen had a two-hour meeting Friday (6) with the Justice Department’s Office of the inspector general and provided closed-door testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday. WASHINGTON- Jeffrey Rosen, who was acting attorney general during the Trump administration, has told the Justice Department watchdog and congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former President Donald Trump subvert the results of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the interviews.
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