.HayesBrown: Something compelled Jeffrey Clark to shift from a run-of-the-mill government lawyer to the kind of person who not only buys crackpot theories, but searches for ways to turn them into reality.
How did so many mild-mannered, otherwise intelligent Americans become convinced that former President Donald Trump really did win the 2020 election? Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official, is in a perfect position to know. And now that he’s beenordered him Wednesday
to produce documents by Oct. 29 and appear before the panel for a deposition that same day. While he wasn’t central to the planning of the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the deadly attack, as we try to better understand the days and weeks that led up to Jan. 6, Clark’s testimony would provide a crucial piece to the puzzle.
How did so many mild-mannered, otherwise intelligent Americans become convinced that former President Donald Trump really did win the 2020 election? Among the most pressing questions Clark could help answer: What were the overlaps between his efforts inside the government and those outside, which nearly succeeding in preventing the transfer of power on Jan. 20? And how did Trump’s lies get such a foothold inside the U.S. government itself?
While the committee has a lot of tough nuts to crack — especially former White House strategist Steve Bannon — and not a lot of time,
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