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 departments 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. Trumps unsuccessful effort in late 2020 to strong-arm the nations top prosecutors into supporting his claims of election fraud.
The law enforcement action at Mr. Clarks 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. Trumps efforts to pressure the Justice Department after his election defeat. The hearing was expected to explore Mr. Clarks 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. Clarks 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
CaptainTruth
(6,546 posts)FM123
(10,050 posts)that they expect to find the evidence of a crime there. A bad day for him.
Deminpenn
(15,246 posts)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
FM123
(10,050 posts)Btw, I was typing /eating - I meant to say Chuck Rosenberg, not Rosen......
Bayard
(21,802 posts)Ocelot II
(115,270 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Botany
(70,288 posts)Mr. Clark was central to President Donald J. Trumps unsuccessful effort in late 2020 to strong-arm
the nations top prosecutors into supporting his claims of election fraud.
Next stop Merde a Largo or Bedminster Golf Clubs?
justhanginon
(3,287 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)Trueblue1968
(17,138 posts)Marthe48
(16,690 posts)no worries
rubbersole
(6,522 posts)His time in the barrel. Oopsie.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)gab13by13
(20,864 posts)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.
Raster
(20,996 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Sadly disappointing.
BumRushDaShow
(127,287 posts)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)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)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)This is a big deal
Link to tweet
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/jeffrey-clark/index.html
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.
iemanja
(53,001 posts)question everything
(47,264 posts)PSPS
(13,512 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Ocelot II
(115,270 posts)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.