Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, identified as "Co-Conspirator 4" in former President Donald Trump's latest 45-page indictment, was prepared to quash any anti-Trump protests that would arise if he had remained in office following his 2020 electoral defeat, the indictment alleges.
Three days before the Capitol attack by a pro-Trump mob, then-deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin attempted to dissuade Clark, then the acting assistant attorney general for the civil division, from accepting the role of acting attorney general. Philbin argued that if Trump remained in office despite his loss, there would be "riots in every major city in the United States."
