MS NOW appalled as GOP turns hearing for ex-Trump lawyer into a 'trip into bizarro world'

President Donald Trump's former attorney Jeffrey Clark testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill, with Republicans giving him a platform to challenge former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation, an MS NOW analyst reported.

Ken Dilanian, MS NOW justice and intelligence correspondent, pointed out how Clark, who played a key role in Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election and was pardoned by the president in 2025, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in Smith's investigation into the fake electors scheme as Republicans were continuing to take on Smith's probe. Democrats argue Clark continues to promote conspiracy theories.

And in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Clark tried to make several arguments tied to his past comments.

"This hearing was a trip into bizarro world, where Republican senators who really should know better, essentially tried to make the case that the Jack Smith investigation of Donald Trump's alleged conspiracy to try to overturn the 2020 election, which involved a lot of figures, including Jeffrey Clark, was somehow an improper weaponization full of misconduct by FBI agents and prosecutors," Dilanian said.

"There's no evidence of that — no matter how hard they try to argue it," he added.

"And what was so interesting about this hearing is that they bring Jeffrey Clark to testify," Dilanian explained. "Jeffrey Clark tried to essentially co-opt the Justice Department into claiming fraud when there was no fraud. And he was indicted in Georgia over those allegations. And he was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Jack Smith case. And had he succeeded, there might have been a very different outcome in 2020. But the fact is, Donald Trump wanted to make him attorney general. But every single senior official in Donald Trump's Justice Department threatened to resign if he did that, and Trump backed down. And now these Republican senators are trying to make Jeffrey Clark into some kind of hero and victim."

Clark has been facing disbarment in Washington, D.C.