“ As a Justice Department lawyer after the 2020 election, Jeffrey Clark drafted a letter to top Georgia officials declaring that the agency had reason to doubt the legitimacy of the state’s election only after he was pressed to do so by then-president Donald Trump, Clark’s lawyer told a skeptical federal judge Monday”
Trump’s own appointee admits Trump inappropriately pressured him to write a bogus letter saying the Justice Department had reason to believe fraud took place in the Georgia election even though the Justice Department did not have that opinion.
“After the Justice Department officials refused to sign Clark’s draft letter, the indictment states, Clark “tried to coerce” them into signing the letter by saying that Trump was offering to make him acting attorney general. Clark accepted that offer on Jan. 3, 2021, according to the indictment”