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The Jeffrey Clark letter was a draft letter that falsely claimed the
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The Jeffrey Clark letter was a draft letter that falsely claimed the Department of Justice
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had been investigating "various irregularities in the 2020 election."
Joe Biden won the election on November 3, 2020. On December 28, Jeffrey Clark
Jeffrey Bossert Clark (born April 17, 1967) is an American lawyer who was Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division from 2018 to 2021. In September 2020, he was also appointed acting head of the Civil Divis ...
proposed to acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and his deputy Richard Donoghue
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that the letter be sent to Georgia
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lawmakers, with modified versions to be prepared for "contested states": Arizona
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, Michigan
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, Nevada
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, New Mexico
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, Pennsylvania
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, and Wisconsin
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. It called on these states to hold special legislative sessions; their goal was to secure alternate slates of electors who would cast votes for Donald Trump
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to overturn Biden's victory. Rosen and Donoghue rejected the proposal and no such letter was sent.
The letter originated with Ken Klukowski, a senior legal analyst for far-right ''Breitbart News
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''. Klukowski had co-authored the 2010 book ''The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency''. Klukowski emailed the letter to Clark, and 20 minutes later, Clark emailed it to Rosen and Donoghue.
See also
* United States Justice Department investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election *Eastman memos
The Eastman memos, also known as the "coup memo", are documents by John Eastman, an American law professor retained by then-President Donald Trump advancing the fringe legal theory that the U.S. Vice President has unilateral authority to rejec ...
* Ginni Thomas' efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election
* Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 presidential election
Following the 2020 United States presidential election and the unsuccessful attempts by Donald Trump and various other Republican officials to overturn it, Republican lawmakers initiated a sweeping effort to make voting laws more restrictive ...
* Republican reactions to Donald Trump's claims of 2020 election fraud
Members of the United States Republican Party have reacted differently to Republican President Donald Trump's false claims about the 2020 United States presidential election, with many publicly supporting them, many remaining silent, and a few ...
* Sedition Caucus
In American politics, "Sedition Caucus", "Treason Caucus", or "Seditious Caucus" is a pejorative term for the Republican members of the 117th United States Congress who voted against the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 president ...
* Trump–Raffensperger phone call
On January 2, 2021, during an hour-long conference call, then-U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to change the state's election results from the 2020 presidential election. Trump had been defeat ...
* Public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
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