Jeffrey Clark

Clark, a lawyer, was deeply involved in efforts to get the Department of Justice to embrace President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud.

Five people died on that day or in the immediate aftermath, and 140 police officers were assaulted. Charges: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants have been charged with seditious conspiracy, joining Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes and about two dozen associates in being indicted for their participation in the Capitol attack. Until Wednesday, however, those investigative efforts seemed to primarily involve talking to people in Republican circles who knew of the plan and objected. It was carried out in conjunction with what appears to be a significant expansion of the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, now reaching far beyond the rioters who stormed the Capitol that day. It will share it’s findings in a series of hearings starting June 9. Congressional hearings: The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has conducted more than 1,000 interviews over the last year. Find the latest here. “Yesterday, more than a dozen DOJ law enforcement officials searched Jeff Clark’s house in a predawn raid, put him in the streets in his PJs, and took his electronic devices. But they are covering similar ground in some cases. Clark, an environmental lawyer, now works at the Center for Renewing America, a conservative advocacy group. As part of that prong of the investigation, federal agents on Wednesday served a subpoena to David Shafer, the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, who served as a Trump elector in that state, as well as to a lawyer in Georgia and a former Trump campaign official who worked in Arizona and New Mexico. All because Jeff saw fit to investigate voter fraud.

Law enforcement officials searched the Virginia home of former top Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, according to his employer and former Trump ...

Vought tweeted that the raid on Clark’s house was "[a]ll because Jeff saw fit to investigate voter fraud. The search appears to be a dramatic escalation of DOJ’s investigations of Trump allies and associates. Select panel members, including Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), attributed the delay to challenges involved in producing videos for that and other sessions. “This is what I was referring to when I said that, while the Department of Justice has a policy about not speaking about any ongoing investigation, you can usually see signs of it with the convening of a grand jury or the execution of a search warrant or the serving of subpoenas. And now we’re starting to see some of that activity, and going beyond a focus on those who broke into this building on January 6.” In late 2020, Clark urged the then-acting attorney general Jeff Rosen to send a letter to top Georgia officials calling for a special session of the legislature.

Clark played a key role in former president Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

“Yesterday more than a dozen DOJ law enforcement officials searched Jeff Clark’s house in a pre dawn raid, put him in the streets in his pjs, and took his electronic devices. Several former Trump-era DOJ officials are slated to testify on Thursday, including Rosen and Donoghue. Recent reporting detailed the Oval Office meeting in which both Rosen and Richard Donoghue, then the acting deputy attorney general, informed the president that mass resignations would occur at the DOJ were he to elevate Clark to attorney general.

Jeffrey Clark was central to Trumpworld's juice-box Machiavelli conniving between the 2020 election and the 2021 insurrection.

It would have been a disaster for the entire country.” According to the videotaped testimony of several people, Rep. Matt Gaetz inquired about a pardon with just about everyone inside the Beltway. Also named were former Rep. Mo Brooks; soon-to-be-former Rep. Louie Gohmert, outgoing Padishah Emperor of the Crazy People; Rep. Andy Biggs; and Rep. Scott Perry. Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked for White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, said she’d heard that Jim Jordan was asking about pardons, but that he hadn’t asked her directly for one. It only got worse as the witnesses took a fairly rapt committee room into the tangled, juice-box Machiavelli conniving that went on between the 2020 election and the 2021 insurrection. Usually, in the best case, it is a ticket to the sidewalk. I’m That Guy. I am now the A-Team. Instead, he found out on Thursday that having the FBI serve you a search warrant can be the best part of your day. (Rosen was of cheery mien when relating these details to the committee.

Federal investigators raided the home of former Trump justice department official Jeffrey Clark early Wednesday in connection with the department's sprawling ...

Clark conveyed the letter to his superiors, then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and his deputy, Richard Donoghue, who both refused to sign the letter. The aim of the letter was to give otherwise nonsense claims of fraud the imprimatur of justice department legitimacy. Clark is a relatively unknown environmental lawyer who headed the justice department’s civil division, which defends the administration in court, among other things.