Hours after the Jan. 6 House committee detailed compelling evidence of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department to come forward with his false election claims, the former DOJ official and the anxious puppet of Trump Jeffrey Clark found refuge in the friendly waves of Tucker Carlson Tonight.
That Clark home was raided Wednesday by more than a dozen DOJ officials who served as additional fodder for a pity party.
“He was dragged into the street in his pajamas. What did Jeff Clark do wrong? Did he sell fentanyl? Was he trafficking people on the Mexican border? ” Carlson asked, using one of the same arguments he deployed to try to defend Peter Navarro, Trump’s former adviser who also worked to cancel the 2020 election, when he was arrested earlier this month.
“Jeff Clark did not commit any crime. What he did wrong was ask for an investigation into election fraud,” Carlson insisted, ignoring Clark’s involvement in Trump’s desperate acts to maintain power.
According to Clark, his meeting with federal agents began with a “loud, insistent pec at my door” in the early hours of the morning.
“I opened the door and asked to be able to put on some pants and they told me no, you have to go out. So I went out, they swept the house and finally let me go back inside and put on my pants, ”Clark said as the Fox News chyron said“ I was in my pajamas. ”(Interestingly, the chyron in a another time he described Clark, the former deputy attorney general, as a “former Trump employee.”) Clark’s electronic devices were confiscated during the raid, which he dubbed “highly politicized.”
When Carlson claimed that Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray “have decided to corrupt our most basic institutions on behalf of Joe Biden,” Clark did not disagree.
“I think we live in an age I don’t recognize,” he said after remarking on his past encounters with these two figures. “And more and more, Tucker, I no longer recognize the country with this kind of Stasi stuff,” he added, referring to East Germany’s secret police.
Carlson, perhaps seeking to bolster his populist credentials, opted for the more accessible label of “Stalinist” when describing the DOJ’s recent moves.
“At some point, someone will fight and become very ugly and I pray that it doesn’t happen, but I think they probably will,” he predicted. “Everything is so sad and I’m sorry you got caught in your pajamas.”