The FBI’s seizure of Rep. Scott Perry’s (R-PA) phone on Tuesday was reportedly in connection with a federal investigation into attempts by several allies of former President Trump to subvert the 2020 election results, two people familiar with the matter told the New York Times.
Perry was a key player in pushing Trump to tap Clark as his acting attorney general amid pushback from other top DOJ officials. During a public hearing, the Jan. 6 Select Committee revealed text messages showing Perry repeatedly urging then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to get in touch with Clark.
The committee subpoenaed Perry in May, but the GOP congressman has refused to comply. Clark and Eastman were also subpoenaed by the panel, and have repeatedly invoked their Fifth Amendment rights.
And this is why the FBI didn’t contact Perry’s lawyer before serving him with the warrant: he hadn’t exactly given anyone cause to believe he’d have cooperated.
(And: FIRST!!)
What’s MAGA World’s favorite amendment? It used to be the 2nd.
Oh I know this one but I am invoking my right to refuse to answer.
Perry thought that his lawyer could negotiate the surrender of the phone for which a search warrant was issued.
These guys Crack me up! 
Trump’s fruitless attempt to overturn the election results
Eroding the trust of Americans in the concept of free and fair elections is hardly fruitless. Depending on your perspective, this looks downright fruit-a-licious:
In January 2021, shortly after the attack on the US Capitol, 59% of Americans said they had at least some confidence that US elections reflected the will of the people. That included 36% who were very confident that elections were representative of the public’s wishes.
Now, a year and a half later, only 42% have some confidence, and just 16% are very confident.
And then accidentally sent the texts to the investigators intact.
Sorry, it is the season for unexpected disclosures.
So how did Rep. Perry from Indiana know Clark or Eastman?
If this means Republicans don’t vote, I’m fine with that. Democrats need to keep pushing voter registration and GOTV. We can beat them at their own game, for sure.
You know those scenes in war movies where a fighter pilot gets a warning beeping that they are targeted by an enemy plane …
CLARK should be hearing a loud incessant beeping right now.
FBI subpoenae have a lot more bite than congressional ones. They don’t expire every two years, and they send men with guns after you when you ignore them.
…and why did he think he needed a pardon?
Rep. Perry is from York, Pennsylvania and he is the one who introduced Jeffrey Clark to Trump.
It’s almost like this was planned…
The problem as I see it is not that Republicans won’t vote so much as they now see the concept of democracy as flawed and will look to other non- or anti-democratic methods of governance/grievance.
“If my vote doesn’t matter because the Democrats stole the election then maybe an all-powerful dictator could hold them accountable. Or maybe just a bullet.”
As Trump struggled to find support for his election fraud claims in the Justice Department, Perry connected Trump with Clark, the acting chief of the civil division and a Philadelphia native,
Jeff Clark is not even competent to serve as the Attorney General. He’s never been a criminal attorney. He’s never conducted a criminal investigation in his life. He’s never been in front of a grand jury, much less a trial jury," Donoghue told the committee last year.
Ok, can we narrow down their interactions to more than geography?
Common strident crack pot ideological nuttiness
That’s a given. So how do people stricken with “strident crack pot ideological nuttiness” meet up? Is there an electronic board or something? A note on the cafeteria’s bulletin board perhaps?