Former President Donald Trump’s top environmental lawyer is no longer accused of being a “co-conspirator” in his efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
Jeffrey Clark was widely assumed to be “Co-Conspirator 4” in an August 2023 indictment that special prosecutor Jack Smith secured from a Washington grand jury.
Clark was assistant attorney general for environment and natural resources and acting as assistant attorney general for the department’s civil division in late 2020 and early 2021.
Smith previously accused Co-Conspirator 4 — whose description matches Clark — of actions including pushing Trump to send a letter to states falsely claiming significant election irregularities, suggesting using the U.S. military to stop riots if Trump stayed in office and offering to act as attorney general to carry out the plan.
