[AMV] #998 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)/ 18 U.S.C. § 371

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The January 6 committee on Thursday displayed scans of notes taken by Richard Donoghue, then the acting deputy attorney general serving out the final days of the Trump administration.

One note, displayed as Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois led the committee's questioning, included an apparent plea from then-President Donald Trump to "just say the election was corrupt" and "leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen."

That missive from Trump has previously been reported, but Americans saw the note for the first time on Thursday.

"You guys may not be following the internet the way I do," Trump said, according to prior reporting on Donoghue's notes.

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Op donderdag 23 juni 2022 20:45 schreef Bluesdude het volgende:

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https://www.washingtonpos(...)-clark-house-search/

FBI dus.... vermoedt onwettige activiteiten van Clark
ivm de verkiezingsfraude van Trump, neem ik aan ?

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One of Mr. Clark's associates described the striking scene early Wednesday morning when a dozen federal law-enforcement officials raided the house, seized Mr. Clark's electronic devices and put him out on the street in his pajamas.

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In December 2020, Clark circulated a draft letter among Rosen and other DOJ leadership that he wanted to send Georgia officials and eventually similar versions to "each relevant state." The letter, which was published by ABC News last year, falsely said that prosecutors had found "significant concerns" with the election results and urged Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to call a special session of the state legislature to appoint pro-Trump electors.

Clark also promoted conspiracy theories within the Justice Department, such as that Chinese spies used thermometers to tamper with US voting machines, according to internal emails made public in a Senate Judiciary Committee 2021 report.

In the days before January 6, Clark helped Trump devise a plan to oust then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, place himself atop the department, and have the DOJ intervene in Georgia to set aside its voting results in order to sway the state toward Trump.

During a dramatic January 3, 2021, Oval Office meeting, Rosen, his then-deputy Richard Donoghue and the head of the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Engel all threatened to resign in protest, leading Trump to ultimately back away from the plan to install Clark as attorney general.

"I made the point that Jeff Clark is not even competent to serve as the Attorney General. He's never been a criminal attorney. He's never conducted a criminal investigation in his life. He's never been in front of a grand jury, much less a trial jury," Donoghue said in a video deposition clip that was played Thursday during the House select committee hearing, recalling what he told Trump during the critical Oval Office meeting.

Donoghue said he told Clark, "You're an environmental lawyer. How about you go back to your office, and we'll call you when there's an oil spill."

Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann said Clark was repeatedly "clobbered over the head" during the meeting. He said that he explicitly told Clark that he was breaking the law, according to his videotaped deposition with the committee, a clip of which was played on Thursday.

"F---ing a—hole, congratulations, you just admitted your first step or act you would take as attorney general would be committing a felony," Herschmann said.

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