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BumRushDaShow

(127,287 posts)
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 01:17 PM Jun 2022

Federal Authorities Search Home of Trump Justice Dept. Official

Source: New York Times

Federal investigators descended on the home of Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official, on Wednesday in connection with the department’s sprawling inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to people familiar with the matter. It remained unclear exactly what the investigators may have been looking for, but Mr. Clark was central to President Donald J. Trump’s unsuccessful effort in late 2020 to strong-arm the nation’s top prosecutors into supporting his claims of election fraud.

The law enforcement action at Mr. Clark’s home in suburban Virginia came just one day before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was poised to hold a hearing examining Mr. Trump’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department after his election defeat. The hearing was expected to explore Mr. Clark’s role in helping Mr. Trump bend the department to his will and ultimately help in a bid to persuade officials in several key swing states to change the outcome of their election results.

Mr. Trump considered and then abandoned a plan in the days just before the Jan. 6 attack to put Mr. Clark in charge of the Justice Department as acting attorney general. At the time, Mr. Clark was proposing to send a letter to state officials in Georgia falsely stating that the department had evidence that could lead Georgia to rescind its certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in that key swing state.

The search at Mr. Clark’s home also came as a federal grand jury continued to issue subpoenas to at least eight people in four different states who were involved in a plan by Mr. Trump and his allies to subvert the normal workings of the electoral process by creating fake slates of pro-Trump electors in states that were actually won by Mr. Biden. Mr. Clark did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/us/politics/jeffrey-clark-trump-justice-dept.html

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Federal Authorities Search Home of Trump Justice Dept. Official (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 OP
Link to CNN... CaptainTruth Jun 2022 #1
Chuck Rosen just said on msnbc FM123 Jun 2022 #2
To get a search warrant, imvestigators Deminpenn Jun 2022 #24
Yes, exactly! FM123 Jun 2022 #26
MSNBC covering now Bayard Jun 2022 #3
The game is afoot! Ocelot II Jun 2022 #4
And the When Will Garland Do Something crowd have fled DU for fresher fields of pessimism! Alexander Of Assyria Jun 2022 #19
Hello Botany Jun 2022 #5
Truly a portrait of a complete and obnoxious "toady". How do these people live with themselves? justhanginon Jun 2022 #25
They found Trump's ass to be so tasty. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 #29
RATS !!!!!!! i wish there was a picture of Clarkie in this pajamas !!!!!!! I could not find one. Trueblue1968 Jun 2022 #27
clark can get the r.w. s.c. to fix it Marthe48 Jun 2022 #6
Jeffrey is going to go through some things... rubbersole Jun 2022 #7
Broken cameras might be in his future? Brainfodder Jun 2022 #30
Extra Extra Read all about it, gab13by13 Jun 2022 #8
CNN is just Fox News Lite. Raster Jun 2022 #9
I have to disagree. CentralMass Jun 2022 #12
I agree. SoFloDenny Jun 2022 #15
The subpoenas, etc., were issued from a grand jury BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #11
not the fbi... getagrip_already Jun 2022 #14
they've been after eastman for mos. mopinko Jun 2022 #28
Feds search home of Jeffrey Clark, former DOJ official who pushed Trump's false election fraud claim LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #10
Non-firewall version iemanja Jun 2022 #13
Is he the one that others threatened to resign if he got his wishes? question everything Jun 2022 #16
Yes PSPS Jun 2022 #17
Even Jeff had plenty of time to do a thorough housecleaning job. NCjack Jun 2022 #18
They'll probably seize his phone and computer. Ocelot II Jun 2022 #20
Perhaps, but evidence of destruction of evidence created as DOJ high honcho itself a felony. Alexander Of Assyria Jun 2022 #21
Yup. He's already in hot water and might not want it to get any hotter. Ocelot II Jun 2022 #22
Not to just judge on appearance...but he doesn't look like guy whowill go to the mat to protect trump. Alexander Of Assyria Jun 2022 #23

FM123

(10,050 posts)
2. Chuck Rosen just said on msnbc
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 01:25 PM
Jun 2022

that they expect to find the evidence of a crime there. A bad day for him.

Deminpenn

(15,246 posts)
24. To get a search warrant, imvestigators
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 06:11 PM
Jun 2022

need to convince a judge there is evidence related to a crime in the location to be searched. Its not something a court just authorizes for no good reason.
That's what Rosenberg meant

Botany

(70,288 posts)
5. Hello
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 01:27 PM
Jun 2022

Mr. Clark was central to President Donald J. Trump’s unsuccessful effort in late 2020 to strong-arm
the nation’s top prosecutors into supporting his claims of election fraud.



Next stop Merde a Largo or Bedminster Golf Clubs?

gab13by13

(20,864 posts)
8. Extra Extra Read all about it,
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 01:29 PM
Jun 2022

we have actual proof that DOJ is finally investigating Trump's inner circle.

We knew about it within one day and DOJ didn't leak it.

Once again Chris Wallace from CNN asks, what took so long?

This is good news bad news; Good news, DOJ is finally moved on to the inner circle, bad news, looks to me like they have just started to investigate these people which means that any indictments, trials, appeals, won't happen until 2024 - 2025.

Time does matter.

BumRushDaShow

(127,287 posts)
11. The subpoenas, etc., were issued from a grand jury
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 01:34 PM
Jun 2022

and apparently the way they do federal grand juries (and I used to have a co-worker who was on one for about a year here in Philly who mentioned his wild schedule), they usually meet maybe a week or two a month - not continually every day like the kind of schedule that you see with municipal criminal/civil juries.

getagrip_already

(14,233 posts)
14. not the fbi...
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 02:09 PM
Jun 2022

It's another agency. It wasn't specified, but it was said it was not the fbi.

Which one?

Not clear. Could be the doj wants to charge him for breaking the law while working there, which could be independent of the broader conspiracy.

Kind of like when you embezzle money from your employer, at the same time you are plotting to overthrow the govt kind of thing.

mopinko

(69,804 posts)
28. they've been after eastman for mos.
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 09:19 AM
Jun 2022

they're almost through the court process, and have a lot of his records already.
i'm sure they already have a lot of clark's shit, too.

LetMyPeopleVote

(143,999 posts)
10. Feds search home of Jeffrey Clark, former DOJ official who pushed Trump's false election fraud claim
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 01:31 PM
Jun 2022

This is a big deal



https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/jeffrey-clark/index.html

Federal investigators conducted a search Wednesday of the home of Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department lawyer who former President Donald Trump sought to install as attorney general in the days before the January 6 Capitol riot as top officials refused to go along with his false vote fraud claims, people briefed on the matter told CNN.

Clark was at the center of an effort by Trump to get the Justice Department to falsely claim there was enough voter fraud in Georgia and other states that he lost, in a last-minute bid to help sow doubt about Joe Biden's victory and pave the way for him to remain in power.
A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office in Washington confirmed that "there was law enforcement activity in the vicinity" of Clark's home but declined to comment on any particular person or activity.

Attorneys for Clark didn't respond to requests for comment.

Ocelot II

(115,270 posts)
20. They'll probably seize his phone and computer.
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 04:56 PM
Jun 2022

If you delete something from your devices it isn't really gone; it's just not accessible - but usually a forensic IT tech can recover it. So even if he thought he wiped his computer, he probably didn't.

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