Dave Davies

He was lead reporter and writer for an investigative series on the January 6th attack, which won the George Polk Award, and with other Post coverage, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Linick and Davis's new book is Injustice, How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department.

We recorded our conversation last Thursday.

Well, Carol Lennig, Aaron Davis, welcome to Fresh Air.

You know, Trump was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and related charges related to his alleged interference in the 2020 election.

We will never know what a jury would have made of the charges and the evidence because it never went to trial.

But part of that is because the Department of Justice didn't get moving on that investigation quickly, not really until well into 2023.

But it's interesting.

I learned in your book that very early after the election, before the January 6th attack, a woman in government, Waleska McClellan, flagged what looked like a coordinated campaign to subvert the election results.

Tell us who she was, what she did.

Right.

And she's from the National Archives, right?

So these are obviously very important official government documents.

She sees they look fishy and she talks to the prosecutors.

Looks like maybe this is not one or two people.

There was a coordinated effort here.

What does she hear from the prosecutors?

There was another point not that much later when departments who were looking into the January 6th attacks began to see evidence which suggested coordination between some extremist groups and close allies of Donald Trump, like Roger Stone, for example.

And they wanted to look further into this, subpoena records.

What were they hoping to do?