Clark, then, could have taken steps to wield the Justice Department’s power to help keep Trump in office. Legal analysts said it amounted to a disastrous attack on the Justice Department’s independence, and perhaps something worse. — fomented by the President of the United States,” former Justice Department official David Laufman wrote on Twitter. Barr’s statements angered Trump, who, along with his allies, had been waging a public campaign to get Barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate election fraud. Clark, the people said, somehow connected with Trump and conveyed he felt fraud had impacted the election results.

Source: Washington Post January 23, 2021 03:24 UTC