The January 6 Hearings - Part Five

The final hearing of the January 6 House select committee - for this month - looked at efforts to get the Justice Department to handle the accusations of voter fraud to steal the 2020 election for Donald Trump.  And the key cog in this wheel of misfortune was a little-known lawyer named Jeffrey Clark.

Clark is an lawyer whom Trump appointed as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division. This was the equivalent of making W.C. Fields president of the Children's Defense Fund. Clark used his position to make it easier for big business to pollute the air and emit more greenhouse gases.  He was Trump's preferred candidate for Acting Attorney General when another Jeffrey, Jeffrey Rosen, failed spectacularly in that job by refusing to help Trump hold onto power. The hearing showed just how eager Clark, who was happy to help Trump, was to do the Dear Leader's bidding.

Oh yeah, Clark's home was raided by the Justice Department, which is now delving more into an inquiry of what happened up to and on January 6. It looks like Merrick Garland is finally getting the message.

If Trump is indicted and convicted as a result of all this, the United States won't be the first country to send a disgraced and corrupt president with a professional-model wife to jail.  But following the example France set for us would put us in good company.

I can't wait to see what's in store for July.