PA Rep. ‘Played Key Role’ In Trump Plot To Oust Acting AG: Report

By John L. Micek, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star

January 24, 2021

U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-10th District, “played a significant role” as former President Donald Trump considered firing the acting attorney general and backed down only after top department officials threatened to resign, according to a published report.

The New York Times reported late Saturday that Perry, a member of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, made Trump aware of Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark. Perry was one of eight Republican members of Pennsylvania’s Capitol Hill delegation who objected to the results of last November’s general election and was “sympathetic to Trump’s view that it had been stolen, the newspaper reported.

According to the Times, Perry introduced Trump to Clark, “whose openness to conspiracy theories about election fraud presented Mr. Trump with a welcome change from the acting attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, who stood by the results of the election and had repeatedly resisted the president’s efforts to undo them,” the Times reported.

Perry, of York County, won re-election last fall under the same mail-in ballot ground rules that Trump and other Republicans falsely claimed had made the election susceptible to widespread fraud. He defeated former state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, also of York County.

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