In the last week, the Biden Justice Department has taken aggressive investigative actions against former Trump administration officials and advisers. What is going on could not be more obvious: Egged on by the House January 6 committee and progressive Democrats who want former president Donald Trump to be criminally charged in connection with the Capitol riot, the department has obtained search warrants to raid the home of former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and seize the cellphone of John Eastman, one of Trump’s private lawyers.
The Justice Department does not want to say that Trump — Biden’s political rival — is the target of a criminal investigation, particularly after House Democrats impeached Trump for encouraging Ukraine to investigate Biden. So the DOJ’s pretext is that these searches are merely part of an internal inspector-general probe of Clark. Yet Clark has not worked at the Justice Department for over a year. And as for Eastman, who was never a DOJ employee at all, well: Are we really to believe that the DOJ went to the trouble of applying to a court for authorization to confiscate his phone as part of its IG’s scrutiny of Clark, rather than as part of a criminal investigation of Eastman himself and Trump?
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