“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
President Joe Biden’s administration has skirted the law on everything from foreign bribery to the Hatch Act, but the newest criminal allegation may take the cake. One of the leading prosecutors in the Biden administration is accused of committing perjury after lying about a vicious knife attack.
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who heads up the Justice Department’s civil rights division, stands accused of breaking federal law to cover up her history of violence.
During Clarke’s confirmation hearings in 2021 Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., asked Clarke point blank: “Since becoming a legal adult, have you ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person?”
“No,” Clarke answered. She didn’t elaborate—but her criminal record does…and The Horn has the details. They all come down to one day.
July 4, 2006.
Clarke’s ex-husband, Reginald Avery, say that’s the day his life and their marriage changed forever. He had been caught in something he had hoped to cover up himself.
“I was seeing another woman,” Avery told the American Accountability Foundation (AAF). “She was angry.”
That’s when Kristen Clarke snapped. In a scene out of a horror movie, Avery said Clarke “attacked me with a knife. I instinctively grabbed it,” according to documents posted online by The Daily Signal and seen by The Horn.
When all was said and done, Clarke sliced one of her spouse’s fingers all the way to the bone.
“That’s what happened. She went to jail,” Avery told AAF employee Tom Jones in May 2021.
Not only did she cut Avery up, but there’s evidence the incident was not a one-off.
Between May 2003 and December 2007, police were called nine times by someone inside Clarke’s home in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
Seven police calls had to do with domestic violence or a “threat.” The knife attack just seems to be the worst incident of the lot.
Court records show that prosecutors pressed charges against Clarke in the District Court of Maryland for Prince George’s County…but suddenly reversed themselves that October 17.
In January 2008, she won an “Order for Expungement of Police and Court Records” …but the paper that seemed to restore her innocence only proves her guilt during her confirmation hearings.
The order demands the “expungement of police records pertaining to (Clarke’s) arrest, detention, or confinement” in Prince George County.
In othe words, there’s no doubt she’s “been arrested for or accused of committing” a crime. And it’s hard to argue cutting your husband’s finger isn’t “violent.”
To make matters worse, there’s no doubt the document is real.
An official at the clerk’s office for the District Court of Maryland for Prince George’s County “confirmed the authenticity of the expungement,” reported The Daily Signal.
Clarke has a controversial history, in and out of office, all the way back to her days as an Ivy League student. In 1994, Clarke wrote in a letter to the Harvard Crimson that black people have a special body “chemical which gives Blacks their superior physical and mental abilities,” including “greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.”
In office, she’s prosecuted peaceful members of the pro-life movement.
When the liberal media heard about the latest controversy, CNN’s Hannah Rabinowitz tried to cover up her cover-up. Clarke admitted to CNN that she had been arrested and not told anyone about it when asked.
But Rabinowitz didn’t say a word about the Daily Signal story…she acted like Clarke just spoke up out of her honesty.
To be clear what happened here:
1. Kristen Clarke, the head of Biden's DOJ Civil Rights Division did not disclose an arrest from a domestic fight
2. CNN took the original report, omitted that fact she lied under oath, did not link to the original story, and framed Clarke's own… https://t.co/B89z4fFumE
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 1, 2024
Clarke’s defenders point out that, under Maryland state law, a person does not have to disclose crimes which have been expunged.
But every federal employee has to filled out one of two background checks, according to the Center for Presidential Transition: SF-86 or SF 85P. The first specifically says would-be employees have to confess everything, “regardless of whether the record in your case has been sealed, expunged, or otherwise stricken from the court record.”
Even her ex-husband, who has said some less-than-complimentary things about Clarke, can’t wrap his mind around hiding her conviction from the U.S. Senate. “The arrogance has always been there. But I don’t understand lying on a federal application.”
The former Texas solicitor general of Texas, Judd Stone, called Clarke’s decision to cover up the 15-year-old charge “just deeply strange.”
Strange or not, Clarke may not have been alone in sweeping her criminal record under the rug. “Congressional staff” confirmed that the FBI never even contacted Avery about his ex-wife during their background checks, according to Jones.
“I can’t imagine a Republican nomination getting away with this,” added Stone.
Clarke won’t get away with it, either, if Republicans get their way.
“Kristen Clarke is in charge of enforcing civil rights laws. She enforces those laws aggressively against anyone who sneezes near an abortion clinic. And not at all against those who vandalize churches,” said Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah.
“She lied under oath during her confirmation proceedings, and should resign.”
Kristen Clarke is in charge of enforcing civil rights laws.
She enforces those laws aggressively against anyone who sneezes near an abortion clinic.
And not at all against those who vandalize churches.
She lied under oath during her confirmation proceedings, and should resign. https://t.co/5tHpaG4a2W
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 1, 2024
The Biden administration has gotten away with enough as it is. If Clarke won’t resign, it’s time we give her a pink slip.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”