Trump has a plan to gum up co-defendant Jeffrey Clark's disbarment hearing: report
Former Trump Administration official Jeffrey Clark is facing disbarment — but not if former President Donald Trump has anything to say about it, reported Politico on Tuesday.
Specifically, Trump plans to use executive privilege claims to try to bar various officials from testifying in the proceedings against Clark, who was an instrumental figure in the alleged scheme to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and separately faces criminal prosecution in Georgia.
"In a letter to Clark dated Jan. 12, Trump attorney Todd Blanche urged Clark to ensure that neither he nor other witnesses talk about confidential conversations they had while Trump was in office," reported Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein. "Those conversations, Blanche said, could be covered by 'Trump’s executive privilege and other related privileges, including law enforcement privilege, attorney client privilege, and deliberative process privilege.'"...