This week, a bit of a bombshell hit the Trump administration.
An attorney who worked in Trump’s DOJ during the first term was put on notice.
Jeffrey Clark is now facing disbarment over the claims he made regarding the 2020 election.
At one point, Clark was being considered to run the Department of Justice as the attorney general, but Trump backed off that position as he moved forward with other appointments.
Eventually, Clark was appointed to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, confirmed by the Senate in 2018.
That, however, was not what put his name in the national spotlight.
Clark was instrumental in pushing the 2020 election narrative that the election had been rigged for Joe Biden.
Clark is among those who were indicted in Fulton County over the 2020 election claims.
He reportedly worked a deal with Trump to push the narrative that the election had been rigged, with the main focus of his indictment being communications with Governor Brian Kemp and other Georgia officials.
In one email, Clark claimed to have “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.”
The indictment against Clark identified him as “a Justice Department official who worked on civil matters and who, with the Defendant, attempted to use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud.”
Last week, it was announced that Clark is now facing possible disbarment over his claims, with yet another career in possible ruins for trying to help Trump make the case that he won the 2020 election.
DC Bar’s Board of Professional Responsibility stated, “Lawyers cannot advocate for any outcome based on false statements and they certainly cannot urge others to do so.” Clark, who is also serving in Trump’s second administration as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, will be banned from practicing law for 30 days, with permanent disbarment if he does not win his appeal.
Clark responded, “Yesterday, I received disappointing news from a 100% politicized DC Bar process. But I also received an outpouring of support from a host of my friends in the law, many thoughtful legal and political commentators, but most importantly, from thousands of ordinary Americans like you. I am very grateful for that.
“And even though a major part of my identity is under assault — a law license the son of a truck driver who never graduated from high school managed to achieve though birthed to parents who could not themselves fully afford my fancy education — I am and remain surprisingly calm.”
If the disbarment holds, it could forever impact how the White House counsel conducts itself, and I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing. That is not a knock against Clark, but the fact of the matter is that White House counsel has lied to the American people since I can remember, doing whatever it took to defend the sitting president, be it a Democrat or Republican. This would set a new standard, and while it would be a black mark against the Trump administration, it may just wind up making the country stronger in terms of any administration deceiving the American people.
