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.
Federal agents conducted a search Wednesday at the home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who played a key role in President Donald Trump’s efforts to get law enforcement officials to challenge Joe Biden’s election victory. The search was confirmed Clark’s current employer, who said in a written message that agents led a pajama-clad Clark out of his house in suburban Virginia early in the morning and “took his electronic devices.”
Asked if federal authorities were at the home in Lorton, Va., on Wednesday, around the same time that federal agents were delivering subpoenas and taking other investigative steps around the country, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s office confirmed that “there was law enforcement activity in that general area yesterday.»
“We have no comment regarding the nature of that activity, or any particular individuals,” the spokesman said. Justice Dept. showdown at the White House three days before the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol
Clark, an environmental lawyer, now works at the Center for Renewing America, a conservative advocacy group. His boss there, Russell Vought, who during the Trump administration was director of the Office of Management and Budget, offered this description of the search:
“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.
