Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s office is launching “an investigation into whether any former or current DOJ officer was involved in an improper attempt to get the DOJ to try to alter the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election,” it announced on Monday.
Clark – who appealed to the former president’s false allegations of electoral fraud – met with Trump in early January and told Rosen after the meeting that the then president would replace him with Clark. Clark would then move to prevent Congress from certifying the election results in favor of Biden, according to the newspaper.
Clark is no longer in the department.
Rosen demanded to hear the news directly from Trump, the Times said, and set up a meeting on the night of January 3 – the same day that Trump called Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, when Trump lobbied the state official to find enough votes for him to win Georgia, they surfaced.
Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer asked Horowitz to start an investigation on Saturday, writing in a tweet that it was “inconceivable that a Trump Justice Department leader would conspire to subvert the will of the people.”
This story has been updated with additional details.