Feds search home of Donald Trump’s Justice Department official who pushed his false election fraud claims

Federal investigators reportedly searched the house of former Justice Division official Jeffrey Clark on Wednesday (Image: AP)

Federal authorities have descended on the house of a former Division of Justice official who pushed ex-President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud.

Investigators searched Jeffrey Clark’s suburban Virginia house on Wednesday, sources informed ABC Information on Thursday afternoon.

Clark was central in Trump’s effort to attempt to get the Justice Division to assert that there was adequate voter fraud in Georgia and different states to solid doubt on Joe Biden successful the presidency.

Serving because the appearing head of the Justice Division’s civil division, Clark in December 2020 assisted in drafting a letter to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp stating that the division discovered ‘important considerations’ across the ‘end result of the election’ in a number of states. The letter was not backed up by proof.

The letter urged Kemp to name a Georgia state legislature particular session to type ‘a separate slate of electors supporting Donald J Trump’.

It was not instantly clear what the investigators could also be searching for.

The search occurred the day earlier than the fifth public listening to by the Home Choose Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. The listening to centered on Trump’s strikes pressuring the Justice Division to assist him overturn the election outcomes.

Clark’s position in, and steps he took in serving to Trump’s effort, had been anticipated to be a subject within the Thursday afternoon listening to.

A spokesman for the US Legal professional’s Workplace in Washington, DC, confirmed to CNN that ‘there was legislation enforcement exercise within the neighborhood’ of Clark’s house, declining to remark additional.

Clark and his attorneys didn't instantly remark.

However Russ Vought, a former Trump administration official and president of the Middle for Renewing America the place Clark is a senior fellow, tweeted that ‘greater than a dozen DOJ legislation enforcement officers searched Jeff Clark’s home in a pre-dawn raid, put him within the streets in his pajamas, and took his digital units’.

‘All as a result of Jeff noticed match to analyze voter fraud,’ Vought continued. ‘This isn't America, people. The weaponization of govt should finish. Let me be very clear. We stand by Jeff and so should all patriots on this nation.’

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