three to be city powell, they died meant described her as an attorney who s baseless accusations trump embraced and publicly amplified, even though he privately acknowledged to others that the unfounded claims of election fraud is sounded crazy. coconspirator for appears to be jeffrey clark. coconspirator for is described in the indictment as a justice department official who focused on civil matters, and worked with trump to use the justice department to open sham election crime investigations, and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud. and coconspirator five appears to be kenneth chesebro, the indictment states that coconspirator five with an who assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent states of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding. the identity of coconspirators six is unknown. so far. but let s bring back my panel to discuss this. congressman, i ll start with you. it s worth noting t
tried to install trump in a mini coup at the doj as the acting attorney general in a bid to power, so clark send the letter out and have the doj help with the coup. and clark s starting role to subvert american democracy is detailed in the indictment. clark is not named, but he sure does match the description of coconspirator for. when clark was confronted with the ramifications of trying to steal the election, things took a turn according to the indictment. on page 30, federal prosecutors described the moment three days before the attempted coup, quote, on the afternoon of january 3rd, clark spoke with the deputy white house counsel, tried to dissuade clark from assuming the role of acting attorney general. the deputy white house counsel related to collect that had there not been an outcome determined fraud in the election, and that if trump remain in office nonetheless, there would be rights in every major city in the u.s.. clark responded, well, that s
and other election administration officials. including his own cybersecurity expert, whom trump fired days after that experts proclaimed that the 2020 election was quote, the most secure and american history. and quote. in the words of one senior advisory, quote, it s all just conspiracy stuff being down from the membership. end quote. of the coup attempt went far beyond trump s disregard for facts. one trump advisor warns that the scheme would lead to riots, quote, coconspirator two confirmed, now to be the lawyer, john eastman, responded that there had been previously points in the nation s history where violence was necessary to protect the republic. end quote. when similar concerns were raised with coconspirator for, who is believed to be former department of justice official jeffrey clark, he responded, quote, well, that s why there s an insurrection act. that is a not to the idea the president could mobilize the military against american
the justice department and then putting this guy, jeff clark, and use the authority of the justice department to tell the states they should throw out election results. this is something i want to show you from page 30 of the indictment. the alleged coconspirator being described here is jeffrey bossert clark, the guy who trump tried to put it in charge of the justice department, apparently named him after the attorney general so that clark could carry out this plot. just look at this. on the afternoon of january 3rd, coconspirator for, we believe to be jeff clark, spoke with the deputy white house counsel. the previous month, the deputy white house counsel head of formed different trump that there is no world, no option in which you do not leave the white house on january 20th. now the same deputy white house counsel tried to dissuade jeff clark from assuming the role of acting attorney general, the deputy white house counsel reiterated to clark that there had not been outcome
abroad. this is a narrow indictment of things where he thinks that he can get a conviction, but donald trump is front and center, from the very first page. just the way it just raised, that trump, quote, enlisted coconspirators. he is the boss of this, he is the one in charge. in fact, let s talk about when those coconspirators because coconspirator for, i believe, yes, jeffrey clark. he is the individual who, it is alleged, and we have known about this for sometime, that trump had told him he would be acting attorney general. he would make him acting attorney general, and in fact there s even a white house visitor log in which he s identified as attorney general clark. and he i let me just read from this. th is a 0.78, paragraph 78. on january 2nd, 2021, just four days before congress s certification proceeding, coconspirator for, that is ffrey clark, tried to coerce the acting attorney genel,