CNN reports:
Jeffrey Clark, a Donald Trump-appointed environment law chief at the Justice Department at the center of the former President’s efforts to overturn the election, received a high-level intelligence briefing around New Year’s 2021 that did little to stop his efforts to prove foreign interference had cost Trump reelection.
Clark is now a major figure in the narrative being written in documents and testimony from former Justice Department officials who were forced to fight off his efforts to orchestrate a coup of leadership at the Justice Department and use it to help the former President.
Clark told senior Justice officials that he knew of sensitive information that indicated Chinese intelligence used special kinds of thermometers to change results in machines tallying votes, people briefed on the matter said.
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New: At former acting AG Rosen’s request, then-DNI Ratcliffe provided Jeffrey Clark w/ classified briefing on foreign election interference — noting IC found no evidence votes were changed.
Clark was unswayed by what he heard. w/ @kpolantz & @evanperez https://t.co/FohBFjfFD9
— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) August 6, 2021
A Trump-appointed assistant attorney general believed Chinese hackers used special thermometers to change votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden in the 2020 election—and he wanted an intelligence briefing to prove it https://t.co/GZYej2aX5f
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 7, 2021