WASHINGTON — Federal investigators on Wednesday searched the Virginia home of Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department official who pushed the department, at former President Donald Trump’s request, to get involved in efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.
“The U.S. Attorney’s Office can confirm that there was law enforcement activity in the Lorton area yesterday,” said a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., who declined to comment further on the search.
Russ Vought, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, decried Wednesday’s search on Twitter, saying agents searched Clark’s house “in a pre dawn raid, put him in the streets in his pjs, and took his electronic devices all because Jeff saw fit to investigate voter fraud.” Clark now works for Vought at the Center for Renewing America, a right-leaning nonprofit.
