The House select committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 sent a letter on Monday to Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) requesting he provide information that could be crucial to the panel’s examination of efforts to overturn the election.
The letter from Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) cites Perry’s efforts to install Jeffrey Clark, former Justice Department official, as acting attorney general.
Perry introduced Clark to former president Donald Trump, according to a report released by the Senate Judiciary Committee in October. Clark went on to play a key role in Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results.
Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) also cites having evidence of Perry’s “multiple text and other communications with President Trump’s former chief of staff regarding Mr. Clark,” according to the letter. “We also have evidence indicating that in that time frame you sent communications to the former Chief of Staff using the encrypted Signal app.”