Trump’s DOJ Sued the DC Bar and Found a Prosecutor’s Social Media Posts That Change Everything

Trump's DOJ just filed a lawsuit against the DC Bar for trying to destroy Jeffrey Clark.

The complaint exposed something the Bar never expected anyone to find.

What investigators dug up on the man prosecuting Clark is the kind of evidence that makes the whole operation fall apart.

Jeffrey Clark Faces Disbarment While Kevin Clinesmith Kept His License

Jeffrey Clark wrote a letter.

He never sent it.

The letter outlined legal options for Georgia officials examining 2020 election irregularities – an internal executive branch deliberation marked with attorney-client and attorney work product privileges.

Two other DOJ attorneys disagreed, the letter stayed in a drawer, and the whole thing was buried.

Five years later, the DC Bar's Board on Professional Responsibility recommended Clark be disbarred for it.

No criminal conviction. No false statement to any court. No sent letter. Disbarment.

Now compare that to Kevin Clinesmith – the FBI attorney who actually pleaded guilty to a felony.

Clinesmith falsified evidence – doctoring a CIA email to say Trump campaign adviser Carter Page was "not a source" for the agency when the CIA had confirmed he was one.

That doctored email was used to obtain a surveillance warrant on an American citizen in the thoroughly discredited Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

The DC Bar's punishment for Clinesmith? A retroactive one-year suspension.

He kept his law license.

Clark drafted a letter and faces disbarment. Clinesmith committed a felony and walks.

That is not a legal system. That is a political operation wearing a robe.

The 65 Project and the Lawfare Machine Behind the Jeffrey Clark Case

Jack Metzler is a senior assistant disciplinary counsel at the DC Bar's Office of Disciplinary Counsel – and one of the officials driving the prosecution of Jeffrey Clark.

While actively working to strip Clark of his law license, Metzler was posting on social media that it is "unethical to engage with anti-vaxxers and people who claim there is a debate about birthright citizenship."

He wrote that some ideas are so toxic the only permissible response is "shunning and perhaps ridicule."

That is who the DC Bar assigned to sit in judgment of Trump's attorneys.

The DOJ's complaint also named The 65 Project – a dark money leftist group launched specifically to destroy Trump-aligned lawyers through bar complaints.

Their own advisor admitted their goal is to "not only bring the grievances in the bar complaints, but shame them and make them toxic in their communities and in their firms."

He bragged that "the littler fish are probably more vulnerable to what we're doing. You're threatening their livelihood."

The group has filed nearly 100 complaints against Trump-aligned attorneys – targeting lawyers from Sidney Powell to Alan Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat who said it cost him over $100,000 to beat his complaint.

"They are the most evil group of lawyers I've encountered since the days of segregation in the South in the 1950s," Dershowitz told the Washington Examiner.

The 65 Project has not filed a single complaint against a Democrat-aligned attorney. Not one.

Trump DOJ Sues to End Weaponization of Bar Discipline Against Federal Attorneys

Three former Attorneys General – Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, and Michael Mukasey – submitted a brief calling the DC Bar's proceedings unconstitutional and a serious threat to the separation of powers.

The DOJ's complaint was direct: the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution bars states and the District of Columbia from interfering with federal officials performing their official duties.

Since the president has absolute immunity for official actions, his attorneys' internal executive branch deliberations are protected.

"Weaponizing state bar discipline against Executive Branch attorneys in this way chills them from giving candid legal advice to others in the Executive Branch, including the President and Attorney General," the complaint stated.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said it plainly: "The DC Bar has long acted as a blatantly partisan arm of leftist causes. No more."

Trump is the first president to draw this line.

Every other administration watched as bars weaponized ethics rules against their attorneys – and did nothing.

Trump went to court.

The DOJ has also moved against the American Bar Association itself – pulling millions in grants, barring DOJ employees from attending ABA events, stripping the ABA of its role in vetting federal judicial nominees, and launching a review that could end its accreditation authority over law schools.

The left built a system where representing Trump meant professional suicide.

Trump just served them with a lawsuit – and put Metzler's own posts in the evidence file.

Sources:

• Rachel Alexander, "Trump Administration Continues Crackdown on Rogue Bars," Townhall, June 1, 2026.
• OAN Staff Brooke Mallory, "DOJ sues D.C. Bar over 'partisan' discipline of Jeffrey Clark and Ed Martin," One America News, May 15, 2026.
• Staff, "DOJ Turns Tables on DC Bar With Suit Over 'Weaponized' Disbarment Effort," RedState, May 14, 2026.
• Staff, "DOJ Goes After DC Bar Association Over Alleged Lawfare Against Trump Admin Attorneys," The Daily Caller, May 14, 2026.
• Staff, "Justice Department Files Complaint Against D.C. Bar Disciplinary Authorities," U.S. Department of Justice Press Release, May 14, 2026.
• Staff, "Ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith given probation after guilty plea in John Durham probe," Fox News, January 29, 2021.
• Staff, "America First Legal Fights Back Against Leftist 'Lawfare,' Files Bar Complaint Against 65 Project Director," America First Legal, 2024.