Former performing Solicitor Basic Neal Katyal had sharp retorts for Jeffrey Clark after the Donald Trump ally attacked him for attending Burning Man.
“Jeff Clark was a key participant, Lawrence, in probably the most neopagan rituals of all, which is worshipping Donald Trump,” Katyal informed MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday evening.
“And also you’d suppose {that a} man who concurrently dealing with disbarment, state felony expenses and the potential of extra federal expenses might need one thing higher to do than to troll folks, and albeit, to troll folks poorly, on-line.”
Clark, certainly one of Trump’s 18 co-defendants within the Georgia racketeering indictment, bizarrely lashed out at Katyal over the weekend for attending the Nevada competition, writing: “Why am I not stunned that Neal Katyal made it a precedence to get to a neopagan ritual?”
“Pray that these of us come to the sunshine & understand that the one path is thru and to our Lord,” he added.
Katyal initially replied on X (previously Twitter), mentioning that he’s a Hindu.
“Are you suggesting I don’t belong on this nation?” he wrote.
On MSNBC, Katyal stated “I’ve heard this rubbish my complete life.”
“Go dwelling, return to the place you got here from, pray to the one true god, lord, that form of stuff,” he stated.
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He additionally prolonged an invite to the previous DOJ official.
“On the finish of this, I assume I’d invite Mr. Clark to attend Burning Man subsequent 12 months to see what it’s about, however I’ve a robust suspicion that he may not be allowed to depart the state of Georgia by subsequent summer time,” he stated.
Clark’s swipe had focussed on a publish from Katyal concerning the competition, which the previous Obama administration official had stated was “implausible” till the tip, when heavy rain stranded hundreds of attendees within the desert.
Katyal documented his “harrowing 6 mile hike” out of the distant website and shared suggestions for others making an attempt to get out or hunker down.
Clark is charged in Fulton County with violating Georgia’s racketeering act and criminally trying to commit false statements and writings.
He was a key ally who championed Trump’s election fraud lies from inside the Justice Division and supported the previous president’s push to overturn the 2020 election.
He was recognized as an unnamed co-conspirator in particular counsel Jack Smith’s federal indictment of Trump over the previous president’s coup try.
Clark additionally faces lawyer ethics expenses in Washington, D.C., which may end in disciplinary motion together with disbarment.
