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Washington — Former U.S. Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark spotlighted his role in seeking help congressional panels overturn President Donald Trump's 2020 losses, the federal. We have confirmed that law enforcement has attacked his home this week.
Clark said in a Fox News interview Thursday night that he believes federal agents have searched his home in Virginia and are politically motivated. I confirmed that I brought his electronic equipment with me.
"At some point, 12 agents and two Fairfax County police officers entered my house and searched for 3.5 hours," he said. "They took all the electronics out of my house."
The US House of Representatives investigating January 6, 2021 begins its fifth hearing. Then, on Thursday, news of the pre-dawn raid emerged. Trump's efforts to replace the acting US House of Representatives with Clark, a firm supporter of Trump's false allegations of widespread election fraud.
A former Justice Department official cast the then environmental lawyer Clark as incompetent and unqualified, and only if most of the Justice Department leaders threatened to resign all at once. Said it was abandoned.
Clark was previously dismissed by the Commission, but he is under his law not to answer questions that could lead him to self-incrimination under Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. I have repeatedly exercised my rights.
The Justice Department is conducting its own investigation into the deadly January 6, 2021 attack when Trump supporters slammed the U.S. Capitol as a member, and Vice President Mike Pence said. Democratic Joe Biden tried to formally acknowledge the victory of the 2020 President.
Clark accused the department's investigation and House hearings of being "highly politicalized." Department and committee representatives were not immediately asked for comment. (Report by Susan Heavey; edited by Scott Malone and Nick Macfie)
