On CNN Thursday, following a damning Senate report that revealed former President Donald Trump's own White House counsel described his plot to overturn the election as a "murder-suicide pact," Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) called for an ethics investigation of Jeffrey Clark, the Justice Department official who helped encourage Trump's schemes.
"You mentioned some of the sanctions that are already been levied on Rudy Giuliani, his ability to practice law in some places, the discussion around Sidney Powell," said anchor John Berman. "Your committee is asking, I think, the D.C. Bar to look into Jeffrey Clark for what he did, yes?"
"Yes," said Durbin. "And we did that very carefully, taking a look at his role. But Clark, who emerged in this, he was suggested to the president by a Pennsylvania Republican congressman, and then all of a sudden sprung out of the Department of Justice to everyone's surprise and became the president's man. The president even promised him, apparently, that he would be the next attorney general. And what he did in terms of asking for the Department of Justice to get involved in this political exercise goes way beyond the bounds of fitness and his worthiness to serve as a lawyer in the District of Columbia."
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