(The Daily Signal) An FBI agent who investigated multiple Jan. 6 cases contributed more than $7,000 to Democrat candidates and causes, including President Joe Biden’s 2020 race, campaign finance records show.
FBI Special Agent Clarke G. Burns also donated six times to The Lincoln Project, a political action committee that opposes Donald Trump, who lost the presidency that year to Biden.
Burns, who works in the FBI’s Washington Field Office, has written numerous affidavits in cases related to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, and the arrests of defendants who were there.
Democrats have blamed Trump for what happened that day as a joint session of Congress met to certify Biden’s victory over Trump in the November 2020 election.
“In my duties as a Special Agent, I investigate domestic terrorismviolations and other threats of violent crime. Currently, I am tasked with investigating criminal activity in and around the Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021,” Burns wrote in an affidavit about one arrested suspect.
“As a Special Agent, I am authorized by law or by a Government agency to engage in or supervise the prevention, detention, investigation, or prosecution of a violation of federal criminal law,” Burns continued.
Burns has made 152 political donations totaling $7,137.28, mostly through the ActBlue fundraising platform, The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project found.
Nine of Burns’ donations, totaling $950, were to Biden’s 2020 campaign for president.
Burns also contributed to the 2020 primary presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who became Biden’s transportation secretary.
The FBI agent made six donations totaling $1,000 to The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump PAC. He made one of the donations four days after the events of Jan. 6, Heritage’s Oversight Project discovered.
Burns also made several donations to Democratic congressional candidates.
With several political contributions, Burns listed his employer as “USG,” meaning the U.S. government. But he recorded his job as “fact finder,” making no mention of the FBI.
Federal Election Commission records identify a Democratic donor named Clarke Burns who is employed by the U.S. government, or “USG,” and lives in Northern Virginia just outside the nation’s capital. In several contributions, his occupation was listed as a “factfinder.”
Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI colleague, said he used to see Burns in a park in Northern Virginia close to the address for Burns listed by the FEC.
The Daily Signal was unable to contact Burns to ask for comment after attempting to reach the FBI agent by email, phone, and the messaging app Signal.
An FBI spokesperson, who didn’t want his name used, responded to The Daily Signal inquiry about Burns by noting what the federal Hatch Act prohibits and allows. The Hatch Act is a law that bans federal government employees from engaging in political activity using work time or resources.
