Trump Moves To Block Testimony Against Jeffrey Clark

Politico reports:

Donald Trump has injected himself into disbarment proceedings against former Justice Department ally Jeff Clark, raising the specter that the former president will attempt to assert executive privilege to block crucial testimony from senior administration officials — or force months of litigation on the matter.

In a letter to Clark dated Jan. 12, Trump attorney Todd Blanche urged Clark to ensure that neither he nor other witnesses talk about confidential conversations they had while Trump was in office.

Those conversations, Blanche said, could be covered by “Trump’s executive privilege and other related privileges, including law enforcement privilege, attorney client privilege, and deliberative process privilege.”

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