Yet another Democrat caught lying under oath shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the endless pattern of the abuse of public offices by Democrats in virtually every department of the current government. Kristen Clarke of the notorious Department of Justice (DOJ) is facing calls to be fired for lying under oath before Congress.
Clarke, who is the current chief of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, admitted to lying to the U.S. Senate during her confirmation hearing in 2021. Back then, Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas had asked her whether she had ever been arrested or accused of any violent crime, and she answered No. However, she was exposed for lying on this question when The Daily Signal reported around the end of April this year that Clarke was once arrested in Maryland over a domestic violence complaint in 2006.
After her arrest record was revealed, Clarke played victim by arguing that her arrest was expunged, and so she wasn’t required to disclose it before Congress. But Republican senators wouldn’t buy her rationale of defense. In May, after her lie under oath was exposed, they called on Clarke to resign; however, she chose to simply ignore them.
As reported in National Review on Monday (July 15), the Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans, led by Senator Tom Cotton, sent a letter to Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland to immediately fire Clarke and remove her from the DOJ office.
Mary Margaret Olohan of The Daily Signal posted a scan of the letter, dated July 13, by the Senate Republicans on X (Twitter). The letter states that in addition to lying before the Senate during her confirmation, Clarke and her publicist contacted the man she had attacked with a knife so as to cover up her false testimony.
Clarke made news and nearly shocked lawmakers and reporters in December last year when she was asked a question about the famous Missouri v. Biden case during a House hearing. The case of national importance against social media censorship was then before the Supreme Court but Clarke told the House that she was not aware of the case.
Also on Monday, National Review reported that Democrat Congresswoman Cori Bush of Missouri – who is also a Black Lives Matters (BLM) activist – has continued to employ her husband in “an undefined role on her campaign” despite an ongoing criminal probe into the alleged misuse of campaign funds by her. The story reported:
Federal Election Commission filings made public on Monday show that Bush’s congressional campaign has continued to pay Cortney Merritts a salary of $5,000 per month.
Clarke’s continued employment at the DOJ Civil Rights office and Cori Bush’s disregard for the probe against her offer a glimpse of the deep-rooted corruption and incompetence that plague the entire Biden administration.