Opinion: The most dangerous Trump official you've never heard of needs to be heard from

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Opinion: The most dangerous Trump official you’ve never heard of needs to be heard from

Opinion by Ruth Marcus
Deputy editorial page editor
Yesterday at 7:13 p.m. EDT

“People tell me Jeff Clark is great, I should put him in. People want me to replace DOJ leadership,” President Donald Trump told acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen on a Dec. 27, 2020, phone call — suggesting, with typical Trumpian subtlety, that Rosen might soon find himself out of a job if he didn’t comply with Trump’s demands to “tell people that this was an illegal, corrupt election.”

The handwritten notes of the call, taken by the Justice Department’s acting No. 2 official, Richard P. Donoghue, and released recently by the House Oversight Committee, underscore the imperative of obtaining testimony from Clark about his efforts, in league with Trump, to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

No one who knew Jeffrey Bossert Clark — he was reported to be particularly insistent on having all three names on department filings in his role as assistant attorney general — took him for the kind of full-blown, conspiracy-chasing Trumpist who emerged in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The documents show Clark, among other things, demanding a classified intelligence briefing from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe about supposed evidence that a Dominion voting machine “accessed the Internet through a smart thermostat with a net connection trail leading back to China.”

On the other hand, no one took him for a potential attorney general of the United States.

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Opinion by Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus is deputy editorial page editor for The Post. She also writes a weekly column. Twitter https://twitter.com/RuthMarcus

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1. This guy is scary

Scary smart. He received a Masters in urban affairs and public policy from the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration (?) at the University of Delaware in 1993, and a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1995.

He currently works as the Chief of Litigation and Director of Strategy for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which describes itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights organization whose goal is "to protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the Administrative State." The NCLA is mainly funded by the Charles Koch Foundation. The organization's current focus is opposition to vaccine mandates and other Covid-19-related regulations and orders. Yeah, that sounds real "nonpartisan" to me.

He also does not believe that greenhouse gases cause global warming. "When did America risk coming to be ruled by foreign scientists and apparatchiks at the United Nations? The answer, it would seem, is ever since Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Obama, chose to issue a rule determining that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger the public health and welfare.
— Jeffrey Clark

Since he clearly is not stupid, I must conclude that he is incredibly evil.

[Dan]

3. Just thinking, why investigate the little guys

Let’s take on Charles Koch and all his foundations.

Take off one of the heads of this many headed snake that’s destroying our democracy, our nation.

[Jon King]

2. Yes, he must be a major target of the investigation.

At the very least to be made an example of. Investigate every aspect of him, are any foreign entities bribing him? He must be brought into the spotlight.