The Homeland Security watchdog who is accused of mishandling deleted Secret Service text messages from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection violated ethics rules while at the Justice Department, according to a 2013 report.
Trump’s actions are now a focus of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Andrew Weissman, a top prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, said the Justice Department is taking “the wrong approach” to investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Cassidy Hutchinson’s dramatic testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee has “jolted” the Justice Department to begin discussing whether former President Donald Trump was criminally culpable for the insurrection.
The FBI interviewed former President Trump’s attorney Justin Clark, according to a Justice Department court filing early Monday morning.
Donald Trump told advisers that if he were to run for another term as president, it would act as a potential shield against criminal prosecution.
The FBI seized the phone of John Eastman, a lawyer who helped former President Trump try to overturn the election results, according to a court filing Monday.
Federal agents on Wednesday searched the Virginia home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who is accused of pressuring top prosecutors to challenge the 2020 election results, The New York Times reports.
