Former Trump Division of Justice Assistant Legal professional Normal Jeffrey Clark appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on the Fox Information Channel Thursday evening to speak concerning the daybreak FBI raid on his Northern Virginia dwelling Wednesday. Clark mentioned the brokers made him go outdoors in his pajamas whereas they searched his home. Clark mentioned twelve FBI brokers, two Fairfax County cops and an ‘digital sniffer canine’ searched his home for over three hours. All his digital gadgets had been seized.
Clark mentioned the raid was a part of nationwide “Stasi-like” raids by the FBI on Republicans concerned in serving to President Trump to cease the steal of the 2020 presidential election.
Native information studies out of Nevada and Pennsylvania in addition to the Washington Put up, affirm the nationwide motion by the feds.
Mediaite reported on the Clark’s look (excerpt):
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“At what level can we are saying the Division of Justice, the place you as soon as served, is a political instrument, it’s fully uncontrolled?” Carlson requested.
“Yeah, I feel that is extremely politicized and it’s additionally half, Tucker should you didn’t comprehend it, of a nationwide effort yesterday,” Clark replied. “There have been a number of states the place a number of folks had been roughly concurrently raided for his or her digital gadgets. And that clearly requires a excessive degree of coordination.”
Clark added, “I simply assume we’re residing in an period that I don’t acknowledge and more and more, Tucker, I don’t acknowledge the nation anymore with these Stasi-like issues taking place.”
Video of Clark on Tucker Carlson Tonight:
KLAS-TV reported on FBI raids in Nevada (excerpt):
FBI brokers served a search warrant Wednesday on Nevada’s high GOP official, sources informed the 8 Information Now I-Crew’s George Knapp.
Brokers seized the mobile phone of state Republican chairman Michael McDonald, reportedly as a part of an investigation into the faux elector scheme initiated on the finish of the 2020 presidential election.
A second search warrant was issued for state social gathering secretary James DeGraffenreid, who additionally signed the doc, however FBI brokers couldn’t find him Wednesday, sources informed Knapp.
In December 2020, the 8 Information Now I-Crew reported the Nevada Republican Get together’s six electors signed paperwork signaling their help for former President Donald Trump in a symbolic ceremony devoid of any authorized advantage, which was held in Carson Metropolis and coincided with the official state-sanctioned tally on Dec. 14, 2020.
KLAS reported Thursday, “ELECTION INVESTIGATION: FBI brokers are monitoring down all six of the Nevada GOP’s electors as a part of a federal investigation, sources inform the 8 Information Now I-Crew #8NN”
ELECTION INVESTIGATION: FBI brokers are monitoring down all six of the Nevada GOP’s electors as a part of a federal investigation, sources inform the 8 Information Now I-Crew #8NN https://t.co/BEaPY8gP66
— 8 Information Now (@8NewsNow) June 23, 2022
The Washington Put up reported on extra raids (excerpt):
The Justice Division’s investigation of the Jan. 6 assault ratcheted up Wednesday as federal brokers dropped subpoenas on folks in no less than two states, in what seemed to be a widening probe of how political activists supporting President Donald Trump tried to make use of invalid electors to thwart Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
FBI officers confirmed to The Washington Put up that brokers carried out court docket approved regulation enforcement exercise Wednesday morning at two places — one the handle of Brad Carver, a Georgia lawyer who allegedly signed a doc claiming to be a Trump elector, and one other the Virginia dwelling of Thomas Lane, who labored on the Trump marketing campaign’s efforts in Arizona and New Mexico. The FBI officers didn’t determine the folks related to these addresses, however public data checklist every of the places as the house addresses of the lads.
…FBI brokers delivered a subpoena to Lane Wednesday morning at his dwelling in Virginia, in accordance with an individual who spoke on the situation of anonymity to debate an ongoing investigation. After leaving the Trump marketing campaign, Lane has labored for the Republican Nationwide Committee’s election efforts in Virginia, this particular person mentioned. Public data checklist an handle for Lane in south Arlington, and an FBI spokeswoman confirmed brokers carried out “court-authorized regulation enforcement exercise” at that handle this morning.
The Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette reported on yet one more FBI raid (excerpt):
FBI brokers interviewed the chairman of the Allegheny County Republican Get together at his dwelling early Thursday morning as a part of a nationwide investigation into former President Donald Trump’s try and ship alternate electors from key swing states to Washington to overturn the 2020 election.
Brokers spent about an hour at social gathering chairman Sam DeMarco’s Oakdale dwelling and served him with a subpoena for communications between him, members of the Trump marketing campaign and authorized workforce, and Trump electors in Pennsylvania, Mr. DeMarco informed the Put up-Gazette on Thursday.
“I’ll definitely adjust to their request,” Mr. DeMarco mentioned. He has till July 8 to show over emails, texts and any written correspondence, he mentioned.
Mr. DeMarco mentioned he didn’t have direct contact with Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign or the authorized workforce led by Rudy Giuliani, simply with the opposite 19 Trump electors.
As talked about within the Clark interview, Trump-hating, fired corrupt former FBI agent Peter Strzok commented on the raids and mocked Clark, “From Virginia to Nevada immediately, a number of coordinated subpoenas and search warrants served and executed by the FBI and DOJ surrounding faux elector scheme. Certain doesn’t really feel like a “nothingburger.”…“Federal investigators descended on the house of Jeffrey Clark, a former DOJ official, on Wed in reference to the division’s sprawling inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 election” More and more giant FBI/DOJ scope. Much more exercise to return?
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“Federal investigators descended on the house of Jeffrey Clark, a former DOJ official, on Wed in reference to the division’s sprawling inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 election”
More and more giant FBI/DOJ scope. Much more exercise to return? https://t.co/ZbGm2895W6
— Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) June 23, 2022
When the Feds seize your iPhone pic.twitter.com/QntX10Wa1v
— Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) June 23, 2022
Additionally as talked about in Clark’s interview, actor Sean Penn attended Thursday’s Congressional listening to by the January sixth Committee with former Capitol Police officer Michael Fanone.
Former Washington police officer Michael Fanone, assaulted in the course of the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, and actor Sean Penn attend one of many congressional hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.. Extra pictures: https://t.co/9p48drYRf0 📷 Jonathan Ernst pic.twitter.com/AIMJdKy7Tg
— Reuters Footage (@reuterspictures) June 23, 2022
UPDATE: Late Thursday evening, WDIV-TV reported from Michigan (excerpt):
Federal brokers have been serving subpoenas to the 16 individuals who signed their names as faux electors for former President Donald Trump in an try to provide Michigan’s electoral votes to Trump as a substitute of President Joe Biden, who gained the state.
Michele Lundgren, whose identify seems as a kind of faux electors, says she by no means signed any such doc.
“I didn’t even know what an elector was, not to mention a faux elector,” mentioned Lundgren. “I signed nothing however what seemed to be a sign-in sheet.”
Lundgren was invited to a Michigan GOP assembly in Lansing to assist Trump.
After cake and low, the so-called sign-in sheet got here out. Lundgren says federal brokers got here to her dwelling to ask questions concerning the faux elector plot; she welcomed them and answered their questions.
Lundgren has been subpoenaed to seem on July 8 in Washington D.C. She mentioned she is going to comply.
It’s possible all the 16 have been subpoenaed.
UPDATE: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) threatened Clark late Thursday evening, “Jeffrey Clark is a reprehensible pettifogger who might be held accountable for his corrupt conduct.”
Jeffrey Clark is a reprehensible pettifogger who might be held accountable for his corrupt conduct.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) June 24, 2022
