Ex-Trump Justice Dept official Clark confirms law enforcement raid of his home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Justice Division official Jeffrey Clark confirmed that federal legislation enforcement brokers raided his residence this week, the day after a congressional panel spotlighted his position in looking for to assist President Donald Trump overturn his 2020 loss.
Clark, in an interview on Fox Information Thursday night time, confirmed federal brokers searched his Virginia residence and took his digital gadgets in what he mentioned he believed as a politically motivated motion.
“At one level 12 brokers and two Fairfax County Police Officers went into my home, searched it for 3.5 hours,” he mentioned. “They took the entire electronics from my home.”
Information of the pre-dawn raid surfaced on Thursday because the U.S. Home of Representatives committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol started its fifth listening to, this one centered on Trump’s efforts to interchange the performing U.S. Legal professional Normal with Clark, a staunch supporter of Trump’s false claims of widespread election fraud.
Former prime Justice Division officers forged Clark, then an environmental lawyer, as incompetent and unqualified and mentioned the transfer was deserted solely when a lot of the division management threatened to resign en masse.
Clark was beforehand deposed by the committee however repeatedly invoked his authorized proper to not reply questions that is perhaps self-incriminating underneath the Fifth Modification of the U.S. Structure.
The Justice Division is finishing up its personal investigation into the lethal Jan. 6, 2021 assault when Trump supporters violently mobbed the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence sought to formally acknowledge Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential win.
Clark accused the division’s search and the Home hearings of being “extremely politicized.” Representatives for the division and the committee couldn’t be instantly reached for remark.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey; Enhancing by Scott Malone and Nick Macfie)
