The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol announced Monday that it will move to hold Jeffrey Clark, a top official in the Trump Justice Department, in criminal contempt for not complying with its subpoena as it seeks to force former Trump administration officials to cooperate with its inquiry.
The committee will meet Wednesday to vote to adopt a contempt report and is likely to send the resolution to the full House, which will take up the matter and is likely to then refer it to the Justice Department.
This would be the second criminal complaint the committee has pursued, and the committee could move to hold yet another witness, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in contempt before the week is over.
Stephen K. Bannon, a former Trump White House adviser, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a congressional subpoena.
Clark served as acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division at the end of the Trump administration, and he sought to use department resources to support the former president’s false claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election. He refused to answer questions during a closed-door interview with the committee earlier this month, after his original deposition was postponed because his attorney dropped him as a client. Clark’s attorney previously cited potential executive- and attorney-client privilege issues to justify noncompliance.
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