Lefty Twitter was pretty psyched on Friday after an FBI search warrant dated March 7, 2017 of former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Jr.’s emails relating to a civil rights investigation surfaced online:
NEW: According to federal court filing made public today, the FBI has executed a search warrant on an e-mail address associated with Trump surrogate and former sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. pic.twitter.com/Q0AdDqyAaP
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 29, 2017
MORE: The search warrant executed on Clarke Jr. e-mail states that this investigation is a civil rights investigation into the detainment of a man who had flown on the same flight as Clarke Jr.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 29, 2017
The man, ID'd as Dan Black, alleged to county auditors and FBI that after verbal exchange with Clarke on flight, he was met by deputies and bomb-drug sniffing dogs when flight arrived in Milwaukee, and Clarke motioned to Black and he was escorted and questioned for 15 minutes.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 30, 2017
The FBI asserts that county auditors advised of emails from Clarke that purportedly pertained to the incident, leading to the search warrant.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 30, 2017
Except, this is old news and — get this — Clarke has already been cleared by the Justice Department:
Here's full comment from David Clarke. (I can't find Bice's article that he mentions here.) pic.twitter.com/C7fS5HPx7E
— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) December 29, 2017
Here’s Clarke’s response to Reason’s CJ Ciaramella:
Here's full comment from David Clarke. (I can't find Bice's article that he mentions here.) pic.twitter.com/C7fS5HPx7E
— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) December 29, 2017
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Maybe NBC News missed local news reporting that the case was closed?
And here's the Journal Sentinel story first reporting that the feds closed the investigation https://t.co/rWAzx388PZ
— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) December 29, 2017
It looks like the document was first discovered by Robert Snell of the Detroit News:
SCOOP: FBI investigating former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a Donald Trump surrogate, according to search warrant affidavit I just stumbled upon. Heads up @journalsentinel @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/13nZkpA6TW
— Robert Snell (@robertsnellnews) December 29, 2017
And wait until all these haters discover Clarke was already cleared in the case:
https://twitter.com/egavactip/status/946905987239301120
THIS IS A TRUE DELIGHT https://t.co/LLgo5wt0SZ
— STEVE HUFF (@SteveHuff) December 30, 2017
Remember to take that stupid hat off when you’re hauled up in front of the federal judge, @SheriffClarke. https://t.co/Szhw2ApaPp
— Ron Hogan (@RonHogan) December 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/JesseInOH/status/946892259987021824
Clarke is a disgusting human being and fewer people need to be held accountable for a myriad of crimes than him. https://t.co/dJ83y9bx5t
— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) December 29, 2017
And on. And on. And on…
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