(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Before sunrise on June 22, FBI agents forced themselves into the home of a Trump administration official, who described their tactics as “highly politicized” and “Stasi-like.”
Former Justice Department Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, who served in the Environment and Natural Resources Division from 2018 to 2021, recounted the raid during Tucker Carlson Tonight on Thursday, reported Just the News.
“I quickly figured out that there were agents there. I opened the door and asked for the courtesy to be able to put some pants on and was told, ‘No, you’ve got to come outside,'” Clark said.
The FBI agents confiscated all of Clark’s electronics. The electronics will allegedly assist the House Jan. 6 Committee’s effort to determine if Trump and his allies illegally tried to overturn the election or overthrow the United States government.
Clark told Carlson that the Jan. 6 witch hunt has taken the country in a totalitarian direction.
“I just think we’re living in an era that I don’t recognize,” he said. “And increasingly I don’t recognize the country anymore with these kinds of Stasi-like things happening,” he said, making a reference to the East-German secret police under communism.
In December, the Democrat-led House Committee on Jan. 6 voted to recommend that the DOJ charge Clark with contempt of Congress because he “largely refused to answer the committee’s questions,” according to Just the News.
The House committee questioned Clark because he helped Trump investigate allegations of election fraud after the 2020 presidential election.
The day after the FBI raid, former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen testified against Clark before the House committee. Rosen said that Clark and Trump discussed election fraud and possible methods to prevent Congress from certifying fraudulent Electoral College results.
Clark’s employer, Center for American Restoration President Russ Vought, defended him and condemned the Biden administration for targeting its political opponents.
“The new era of criminalizing politics is worsening in the US. 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,” Vought wrote on Twitter.
Vought agreed with Carlson’s description of the FBI as a “political instrument” and “out of control.”
He said the FBI targeted Clark because he “saw fit to investigate voter fraud.”
“This is not America, folks,” he continued. “The weaponization of govt must end. Let me be very clear. We stand by Jeff and so must all patriots in this country.”
He noted that the FBI’s raid into Clark’s home was part of a “nationwide effort.”
“There were multiple states where multiple people were roughly, simultaneously raided for their electronic devices,” Vouht said. “And that obviously requires a high level of coordination.”
On the same day, a federal judge sentenced former West Virginia Del. Derrick Evans to three months in prison for felony civil disorder in connection with his unlawful entrance into the Capitol on Jan. 6, CBS News reported.
Also on Thursday, the FBI carried out a search warrant against Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald, who the House committee subpoenaed earlier this year, Newsweek reported.
Agents seized all of McDonald’s electronics. The committee suspects that he participated in Trump’s effort to send alternate electors to the Senate.
The FBI also served subpoenas to Georgia attorney Brad Carver and former Trump campaign official Thomas Lane.
