It “defies rational explanation” to think that the FBI raid of the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida is not motivated by “pure politics,” according to Jeffrey Clark, a lawyer in the Justice Department during the Trump administration.
Clark, whose attempt to investigate allegations of election fraud at the behest of President Donald Trump triggered pushback from many in the Justice Department, said in an interview with NTD that the operation at Trump’s Palm Beach property is “entirely unprecedented.”
The affidavit used in the raid, which is supposed to contain the probable cause that justifies a warrant, could be “something that the President’s lawyers need to do wrangling in order to get access to,” according to Clark. “But they should certainly try. I think that a warrant needs to have that support, and not just be part of a secret process.”
“I still don’t have a copy of the affidavit that was used to obtain the warrant for the search of my house,” Clark said, referring to a search of his Virginia home by federal authorities in late June.
Clark points to the “No one is above the law” narrative pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to news outlets, noting that the same level of scrutiny over the handling of classified documents has never been applied to Democrats.
2024 Presidential Run
When asked about Trump’s likely 2024 presidential campaign, Clark said Democrats have been trying to use the Fourteenth Amendment’s insurrection clause to block pro-Trump candidates from running, and they are planning to use this raid to bar Trump from future office.“Marc Elias is saying that the criminal statute could result in President Trump being barred from future office. And I think it’s clearly part of his plan,” Clark told NTD.
“He had been using an earlier plan of trying to use the Fourteenth Amendment provisions to bar folks like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn from holding federal office again,” he continued, referring to the Georgia congresswoman and the North Carolina congressman. “So this seems to be a general Democrat plan.”