Jeffrey Clark, one in all Donald Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia, attracted backlash over the weekend after he fired off a weird non secular assault in opposition to a fellow former Justice Division official for attending Burning Man.
“Why am I not shocked that Neal Katyal made it a precedence to get to a neopagan ritual?” Clark tweeted, sharing a put up from Katyal on the pageant.
“See image under in decrease proper,” he continued. “Pray that these people come to the sunshine & notice that the one path is thru and to our Lord. We’re all fallen and want God, and to repent as a Nation.”
Katyal, who served as appearing solicitor common within the Obama administration, promptly fired again.
“Expensive Felony Defendant Clark,” Katyal wrote. “I’m a Hindu. Are you suggesting I don’t belong on this nation?”
He recommended Clark is likely to be “higher off learning our Founders, the textual content of our First Modification and (albeit for different motive), the Felony Code.”
Katyal’s authentic put up described a “harrowing 6 mile hike at midnight by way of heavy and slippery mud” to depart the pageant within the Nevada desert, the place hundreds of individuals had been stranded over the weekend after heavy rain.
Clark was indicted together with Trump and 17 others final month within the Fulton County racketeering case. He’s charged with violating Georgia’s racketeering act and criminally making an attempt to commit false statements and writings.
Clark was an assistant legal professional common within the atmosphere and pure assets division and served as appearing head of the Justice Division’s civil division in the course of the Trump administration.
He was a key participant within the former president’s plot to overturn the 2020 election.
After the resignation of former Legal professional Basic William Barr, who left his function after refusing to assist Trump’s voter fraud claims, Trump contemplated boosting Clark ― who did assist his bogus election claims ― to appearing legal professional common, in line with former Trump administration officers.
Following his August indictment, Clark claimed that “witches, spiritists, mediums, these with spirit animals, and Ukrainian NPCs” had been attacking him.
A number of distinguished figures jumped to Katyal’s protection after Clark’s put up, together with Constitutional regulation scholar Laurence Tribe, conservative legal professional George Conway and gun security advocate Fred Guttenberg.
See their reactions, and others, under.