Rosen, former acting AG under Trump, appears before Jan. 6 committee

That Senate committee released a report on its investigation last week. A spokesperson for the Jan. 6 panel declined to comment on Rosen’s appearance.

Clark, however, has yet to field questions from congressional investigators scrutinizing Trump’s final weeks in office. His lawyer declined to comment on the subpoena. And while Rosen resisted Trump’s efforts to co-opt DOJ, Clark appears to have facilitated them.

Internal emails show that he urged top DOJ officials to send out a letter he drafted falsely claiming the FBI found evidence of serious voter fraud in multiple states. Another then-senior official — Richard Donoghue, who fielded questions from the Jan. 6 committee last week — told Clark that sending out the letter was “not even within the realm of possibility.”

Clark also told Rosen that Trump was going to oust him as acting head of DOJ and give that role to Clark, Rosen testified earlier to the Senate judiciary panel.

“Well, here’s the thing, Jeff Clark, my subordinates don’t get to fire me,” Rosen replied to Clark, according to his testimony. “So I’m not accepting what you’re telling me, that you’re going to replace me. I’m going to contact the President and tell him I need to talk with him.”

Clark’s plans did not come to fruition; the DOJ never sent out his letter and Trump did not fire Rosen.

“The Select Committee needs to understand all the details about efforts inside the previous administration to delay the certification of the 2020 election and amplify misinformation about the election results,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the Jan. 6 panel’s chair, in a statement. “We need to understand Mr. Clark’s role in these efforts at the Justice Department and learn who was involved across the administration.”

The subpoena calls on Clark to appear for a deposition on Oct. 29, the same day documents are due to the panel.

The Washington Post first reported that the Clark subpoena was forthcoming.