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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The congressional committee investigating the fatal Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has delayed testimony by Jeffrey Clark, a previous senior formal at the Justice Department, mainly because he has retained a new law firm.
“Mr. Clark has been granted a brief postponement as a consequence of his retaining new counsel,” a committee aide stated on Friday.
The U.S. Home of Representatives Pick out Committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the seat of the U.S. govt introduced on Oct. 13 that it experienced issued a subpoena to Clark inquiring him to produce information and testify at a deposition by Oct. 29.
Clark was performing head of the Justice Department’s civil division in the course of the presidency of former Republican President Donald Trump. He was a proponent of Trump’s unfounded statements that Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 election was the final result of fraud.
In saying it subpoenaed Clark, the committee claimed it wanted to comprehend all the information about efforts inside the previous administration to amplify misinformation about election outcomes.
Trump gave a speech espousing his election fraud principle at a raucous rally on Jan. 6, when Vice President Mike Pence and Congress satisfied to certify Biden’s election. Trump urged his supporters to “fight like hell,” sending 1000’s of them to march on the Capitol.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle Enhancing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
