Key Architect of Trump’s Plot to Steal 2020 Election Addressed Anti-Voting Activists from White House Complex

Jeffrey Clark, a key architect of the plot to help President Donald Trump subvert the 2020 election, addressed anti-voting activists from the White House complex Saturday.

The five-minute video was recorded as a Flag Day message for followers of popular MAGA podcaster Steve Stern, who also describes himself as “a leading advocate for election integrity.” 

“I’m coming to you from the White House complex – I’m in the historic Secretary of War suite” — part of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building — Clark told viewers.

Clark, a longtime lawyer, was one of 18 people indicted in the prosecution tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. He served in the U.S. Department of Justice during Trump’s first term, and Trump briefly made Clark acting attorney general after Clark made clear he was willing to go along with false claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 elections. 

Clark’s house was raided by agents in June 2022, as part of a federal investigation. And a congressional probe into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol identified him as one of the central figures in the plot to obstruct certification of the 2020 election. 

Of course, none of this deterred Trump from finding Clark an important new role in his second administration; he’s currently serving as acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which is part of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.

The video posted to Stern’s Rumble channel is mostly unremarkable — Clark talks about what Flag Day means to him — though near the end he attacks “the globalist forces and the forces of internationalism and of the United Nations, which continues to, I think, bedevil and burden the United States, which President Trump has been pushing back on.” 

But Clark’s appearance on Stern’s podcast — recorded in the White House complex, no less — is part of a larger trend of Trump Administration officials holding court with fringe, far-right anti-voting groups and figures. Last week, Democracy Docket exclusively reported that a senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security official held a briefing for the Election Integrity Network — the voter-suppression advocacy group founded by the prominent anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell. 

And Seth Keshel, a former Army intelligence captain who has promoted some of the most outlandish false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, wrote that he was invited to the White House in May to brief “one of President Trump’s most critical staff members” on election integrity. 

Stern has connections to numerous figures in MAGA world, including former senior advisor Steve Bannon, former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn and MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.