Shortly after Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat, the then-outgoing president considered a ridiculous plan in which he’d fire acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and replace him with Jeffrey Clark, an environmental lawyer within the administration. The motivation for the change was obvious: Clark, unlike Rosen, was telling Trump what he wanted to hear about keeping him in power, despite his defeat.
” The same week, federal prosecutors had a different label in mind for the GOP lawyer: The criminal indictment in the 2020 election case referenced Clark as “Co-Conspirator 4.” Meanwhile, in Fulton County, Georgia, Clark was also among the many people in Trump’s orbit who were charged with election crimes. That came on the heels of a fundraiser the former president held for Jan. 6 criminal defendants. Among those who spoke at the event was — you guessed it — Jeffrey Clark.