It’s no secret that former Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke was Trump’s favorite sheriff. Well, we got a good idea why last night.
Clarke had spent most of the day railing about how the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other outlets had done a hatchet job on him by reporting on an FBI request for a search warrant on his email account. It was made as part of an investigation into whether he violated Daniel Black’s civil rights.
Ultimately, federal prosecutors didn’t think they could prove Clarke committed a crime—a point stressed by the Journal Sentinel. But that was lost on Clarke.
Clarke claimed he’d been exonerated, but as the letter Black received from federal prosecutors makes clear, that wasn’t the case at all.
Later in the day, Clarke crossed the line from alternative facts to outright unhinged behavior.
A GIF of a wrestler kicking CNN. Yeah, real subtle. And real Trumpian.
To think that this guy was a sheriff for 15 years.