Hours after a House of Representatives committee on January 6th presented detailed evidence of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department to run with his false election allegations, former Justice Department official and impatient Trump deputy Jeff Clark took refuge on Tucker Carlson’s friendly show tonight.
The fact that Clark’s home was attacked on Wednesday by more than a dozen Justice Department officials served as additional fodder for a pathetic holiday.
“He was dragged out into the street in his pajamas. What did Jeff Clark do wrong? Did he sell fentanyl? Was it human trafficking on the Mexican border? Carlson asked, using one of the same arguments he used to try to defend Peter Navarro, a former Trump adviser who also worked for the cancellation of the 2020 election when he was arrested earlier this month.
“Jeff Clark has not committed any crime. What he did wrong was to call for an investigation into voter fraud, “Carlson insisted, covering up Clark’s involvement in Trump’s desperate actions to retain power.
According to Clark, his meeting with federal agents began with a “loud, persistent knock on my door” early in the morning.
“I opened the door and asked for the courtesy so I could put on my pants and they told me no, you have to go outside. So I went outside, they swept the house, and they finally let me go back inside and put on my pants, “Clark said as the Fox News chiron roared that he was” in his pajamas. ” (Curiously, Chiron later described Clark, a former assistant attorney general, as a “former Trump employee.”) Clark’s electronic devices were seized during what he called a “highly politicized” attack.
When Carlson claimed that Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Ray “decided to corrupt our most important institutions on behalf of Joe Biden,” Clark disagreed.
“I just think we live in an era I don’t recognize,” he said after noting his previous encounters with the two figures. “And more and more, Tucker, I no longer recognize the country with such Stasi stuff,” he added, referring to the East German secret police.
Carlson, probably in an effort to strengthen his populist authority, chose the more accessible label of “Stalinist” when describing the recent actions of the Department of Justice.
“At some point, someone will fight and it will be super ugly, and I pray it doesn’t happen, but I think it probably will,” he predicted. “The whole thing is so sad and I’m sorry you were caught in it in your pajamas.”
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