If you’re wondering what happened to Jeffrey Clark after he tried to help former President Donald Trump overturn a lost election, Clark is currently facing disciplinary proceedings and in that trial, witnesses are testifying about some very disturbing events, including his belief that “smart thermostats” were being used to manipulate voting machines.
In the days leading up to the deadly terrorist attack on January 6, 2021, Trump hatched the plot to replace the leadership of the Justice Department with Jeffrey Clark. Clark was willing, where
Jeffrey Clark, a top Trump official in the DOJ, is facing disciplinary proceedings that could result in the loss of his license to practice law. He is accused of “making false claims in an attempt to enlist the agency in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to reverse his 2020 election defeat.”
“What Mr. Clark was attempting to do was essentially a coup at the Department of Justice,” the District of Columbia Bar Association’s disciplinary counsel said in opening arguments Tuesday.
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Here a coup, there a coup, everywhere a coup, a coup.
Clark’s lawyer denies that Clark was involved in an attempted coup at the Justice Department, saying he was instead engaged in an “internal debate and disagreement.”
Clark is the person Trump sought to put in charge of the Justice Department as an “interim” head, a trick he has often used to circumvent rules that serve as a kind of check and balance to act on Trump’s false claims regarding the elections he held. lost. Clark is accused of trying to pressure Justice Department leaders to act on false allegations of voter fraud in an effort to help Trump overturn the election results in several states.
To that end, Donald Trump’s former deputy White House legal counsel, Pat Philbin, gave his first public testimony about what happened at the Justice Department as Trump was trying to take power and overthrow American democracy, during which he testified that Clark was “wildly misinformed about allegations of voter fraud – advocating a theory that “smart thermostats” are used to manipulate voting machines – and insufficiently aware of the havoc it would cause the country if the his plan had been successful.”
Philbin describes, in Politico, Clark as a true believer who thought he had an opportunity “to do something about it.”
Philbin “warned Clark that there would be riots in every major American city if Trump reversed the outcome of the election,” to which Clark responded, “Well, Pat, that’s what the Insurrection Act is for.”
Clark wanted to deploy the U.S. Army and federalized National Guard troops to U.S. borders to suppress any civil unrest, insurrection, or rebellion that might result from Donald Trump’s refusal to honor the will of the people in a lost election.
The takeaway from this testimony is more than simply where Trump found so many people so willing to throw away their careers on clearly crazy Q-Anon-level conspiracy theories, but more important right now: Trump and his aides at Project 2025 they are plotting how not to be stopped next time.
Trump and his supporters have given no thought to the idea of deploying the US military against US citizens in an attempt to stay in power. This is the thinking of a dictator, not the president of a democratic country.
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