U.S. inspector general investigates if DOJ officials worked with Trump to overturn election

Washington, January 26 (RHC)-- In the United States, the Justice Department’s inspector general has announced plans to investigate whether any current or former officials at the Department worked with former  President Donald Trump in his failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election. 

This comes just days after The New York Times revealed Trump considered replacing acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with another official, Jeffrey Clark, who embraced Trump’s conspiracy theories about the election.

Clark, the reports said, was sympathetic to Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign, and that he met with Republican Congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania to discuss a plan to have the Justice Department send Georgia a letter disclosing the department would investigate the election results.

The plot, however, drew strong opposition from other senior officials in the department who threatened to resign en masse if Clark was appointed acting attorney general.  Top Justice Department officials had also refused Trump’s demands that they get involved in contesting the election’s outcome at the Supreme Court.