the old model of our understanding of what happened on january 6th is basically as follows. the ex president told a bunch of lies about voter fraud and he refused to accept he lost, whether he believed it or not is unclear, he nurture those lies in this impetuous frenzy, rage filled, haphazard way. he threw everything against the wall to see what would stick in and out of court in a desperate attempt to cling to power, which culminated in this inciting speech on january 6th to a mob he riled up and then sent to the capitol and there, hopped up on trump s incitement and lies and reckless disregard for both safety and american democracy, the mob broke into the capitol, ransacked it, threatening the lives of members and calling to hang mike pence. and while they did, trump sat and watched and refused to lift a finger to stop them, as things got more and more out of hand and more and more violent. that was our almost immediate understanding of what happened that today. and based
for a while, not knowing his career, would basically sooner rather die than be the person to prosecute the ex president of the united states, the first person to do that. been operating under the assumption that it is not going to happen. that s until last, week when we learned that federal investigators searched the home of jeffrey clark, a man who was essential to the plot to use the doj to overturn the election. law enforcement officials raided his house just before seven in the morning, according to one of his colleagues they put him in the streets in his pajamas and took his electronic vices. there are different ways that you can execute search warrants, but executing a search that includes putting a doj in player on the street in their p.j. s, again it happens every day in america, not isolated those types of folks. feels like the department of justice is playing hardball. former special agent in the fbi counterintelligence agent. editor of the national security