FIRST ON FOX — The legal team of former President Trump is instructing former Justice Department official Jeffery Clark to maintain executive privilege amid the fight to strip his bar license.
Clark, who served as assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division during Trump’s administration, is fighting efforts by the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel to have him disbarred for a letter he drafted in which he outlined what he perceived as “significant concerns” in Georgia during the 2020 election.
According to a letter obtained by Fox News Digital from white-collar attorney Todd Blanche, who represents the 45th president in two of his criminal cases, Trump’s legal team is instructing Clark to “maintain President Trump’s executive privilege and other related privileges, including law enforcement privilege, attorney client privilege, and deliberative process privilege.”
A District of Columbia Bar disciplinary proceeding against Clark is set to begin on March 26, when former White House Counsel Patrick Philbin is scheduled to testify, according to Blanche.
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Clark is also a named defendant in the ongoing racketeering case against Trump in Georgia.
The question of executive privilege between a president and his administration appointees has been central to cases against Trump and allegations that he tried to interfere with the 2020 election.
In 2021, the Department of Justice told Clark that President Biden’s decision to waive executive privilege gave Clark…
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