Texts Reveal Scott Perry’s Attempts To Overturn Election

November 30, 2023 Republicans, Trump cultists

CNN reports:

As Rep. Scott Perry was making clear he wanted to contest Donald Trump’s loss of the presidency in the 2020 election, his conversations with a Justice Department official took him inside the then-president’s management of the agency.

Perry’s text messages, revealed for the first time in court filings on Wednesday, included several communications in late December 2020 and early January 2021 with DOJ’s Jeffrey Clark, a Trump appointee sympathetic to contesting the election, as Trump considered installing Clark as attorney general.

Perry texted Clark, “POTUS seems very happy with your response. I read it just as you dictated,” according to court records. “You are the man. I have confirmed it,” Perry wrote back, late at night on December 30, 2020. “God does what he does for a reason.”

Politico reports:



At the time, Clark was supporting Trump’s false claims of voter fraud — and Trump, hoping to harness the Justice Department in his bid to overturn the 2020 election, was nearing a decision to appoint Clark as acting attorney general. He ultimately backed off amid a high-level rebellion at DOJ and in the White House.

But the newly disclosed text messages — contained in a court filing that appears to have been erroneously made public on Wednesday — show that Clark was girding for the appointment, bolstered by support from Perry, a conservative leader in Congress.

John Rowley, an attorney for Perry, described dismay at the public release of the communications. “The disclosure of Representative Perry’s private communications, taken from the phone of a sitting Member of Congress — who has never been accused of wrongdoing — is unfortunate,” Rowley said.

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