On Thursday Politico updated their Wednesday story about Former Deputy Associate AG Patrick Hovakimian’s draft resignation email prepped amid Trump’s coup attempt at the department: “In early January 2021, one top Justice Department official was so concerned that then-President Donald Trump might fire his acting attorney general that he drafted an email announcing he and a second top official would resign in response. The official, Patrick Hovakimian, prepared the email announcing his own resignation and that of the department’s second-in-command, Richard Donoghue, as Trump considered axing acting attorney general Jeff Rosen. At the time, Hovakimian was an associate deputy attorney general and a senior adviser to Rosen…”
“In a Thursday morning statement, Speaker Nancy Pelosi lauded Maloney’s investigation into Trump’s efforts to interfere with the Justice Department, calling the oversight push ‘historic’ and adding that it would ‘contribute greatly to the work’ the select committee was doing to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), confirmed in a Thursday morning interview that Donoghue and Rosen were also set to sit for closed-door interviews with his panel. ‘They are on the list of people we’re going to interview,’ he said. Attorneys for Donoghue and Rosen did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”