FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid a ‘Democrat Plan’ to Bar Trump From Holding Office: Lawyer

It “defies rational explanation” to think that the FBI raid of the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida is not motivated by “pure politics,” according to Jeffrey Clark, a lawyer in the Justice Department during the Trump administration.

Clark, whose attempt to investigate allegations of election fraud at the behest of President Donald Trump triggered pushback from many in the Justice Department, said in an interview with NTD that the operation at Trump’s Palm Beach property is “entirely unprecedented.”

The affidavit used in the raid, which is supposed to contain the probable cause that justifies a warrant, could be “something that the President’s lawyers need to do wrangling in order to get access to,” according to Clark. “But they should certainly try. I think that a warrant needs to have that support, and not just be part of a secret process.”

“I still don’t have a copy of the affidavit that was used to obtain the warrant for the search of my house,” Clark said, referring to a search of his Virginia home by federal authorities in late June.

Clark points to the “No one is above the law” narrative pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to news outlets, noting that the same level of scrutiny over the handling of classified documents has never been applied to Democrats.

“When there have been so many document issues that prominent Democrats have had, that had been totally swept under the rug, it defies rational explanation to think that this is really something that is not explainable by pure politics,” he said.

2024 Presidential Run

When asked about Trump’s likely 2024 presidential campaign, Clark said Democrats have been trying to use the Fourteenth Amendment’s insurrection clause to block pro-Trump candidates from running, and they are planning to use this raid to bar

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