Opinion by James Hohmann: The voices the Jan. 6 committee needs to hear
in the Oval Office at which they threatened to resign if Trump made Jeffrey Clark the acting attorney general. Clark, who ran Justice’s environmental division, went behind his boss’s back to assist Trump’s plot to overturn the election.
Cipollone and Philbin were in that meeting, and they work together now in private practice. A person close to Cipollone said that he has been"cooperative with the committee, with President Trump’s permission,” but that he continues to harbor “serious institutional concerns and [executive] privilege issues.”But these same issues have not stopped other Trump administration lawyers from speaking freely, including former attorney general William P.
Eric Herschmann, a lawyer who worked under Cipollone, has proven to be a star witness. He’s the guy who candidly recalled telling Eastman on Jan. 7, 2021, before hanging up on him, that he needed to get a good criminal defense lawyer. Herschmann’s backdrop during videotaped testimony has featured a baseball bat that says “JUSTICE,” a
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