Republished with permission from The Stream, courtesy of investigative journalist Rachel Alexander.
Outstanding election integrity lawyer and former legislation professor David Clements, identified for his podcasts and landmark 2024 documentary about election fraud, Let My People Go, has been predictably underneath vicious assaults by the left over the previous few years.
They are submitting bar criticism after bar criticism towards him, and obtained him fired from his legislation professor job at New Mexico State College on account of refusing to topic his college students to the masks and COVID-19 experimental drug mandates.
The retaliation towards him for main an election audit in New Mexico’s Otero County has been vile, leading to dying threats towards him and his spouse. Nevertheless, he isn’t backing down, and as a substitute is continuous to face as much as the corrupt political witch hunts.
That is my interview with him exposing what has occurred to him. The main points are beautiful and scary.
On February 14, 2025, former legislation professor David Clements was 680 miles away from his spouse, Erin, assembly with election integrity specialists on the best way to capitalize on the brand new Trump administration’s sweeping reforms to get rid of fraud, waste, and abuse all through the federal authorities — however with a give attention to elections.
At 6:17 pm, whereas most {couples} have been celebrating Valentine’s Day, Clements acquired a textual content picture from Erin. Moments earlier than, she had opened a letter marked “CONFIDENTIAL” from the Supreme Courtroom of the State of New Mexico.
The contents revealed that the Disciplinary Board had opened an investigation over allegations {of professional} misconduct.
The accusation? That Clements’s latest go to with former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in a Colorado jail — Peters being the wrongfully convicted and brave whistleblower that uncovered Dominion Voting Programs — was achieved by “false pretenses.”
She was sentenced to 9 years after a sham trial that excluded practically all her defenses and most of her testifying specialists — one among whom was Clements.
Unable to assist Peters at trial, Clements sought to convey larger consciousness of her situations by publishing a short video update together with her, which went viral. The Clementses knew the claims have been patently absurd – however reactions have been markedly completely different. Clements texted Erin again “Yay!!!” He appeared to relish one other alternative to combat the bar affiliation.
However when he referred to as his spouse, she was understandably worn down. “They by no means cease,” she stated.
And he or she would know. This was the sixth criticism filed towards Clements since August 2021 — and even worse, it could show to be the beginning of a sixth preliminary investigation to find out whether or not Clements ought to be disbarred.
His newest accuser? Oddly sufficient, it was the identical man who had introduced accusations towards him in 2020 that had gotten him fired from his job at New Mexico State College: Trent Toulouse.
We encourage you to learn each phrase of Clements’s response to the Disciplinary Board.
What this journalist discovered is that the Toulouse criticism pales compared to a a lot bigger story — particularly, a coordinated effort between political operatives, government-funded media, and the bar affiliation to destroy Clements.
I just lately took the time to interview him and several other others with whom he has crossed paths over the previous a number of years.
“The Course of Is the Punishment”
Clements simply rebutted Toulouse’s claims of getting into a safe facility underneath “false pretenses.” Here’s a brief excerpt from his response:
“There is no such thing as a authorized or moral prohibition for an legal professional, whether or not licensed within the discussion board state or not, to go to a prisoner…. [t]he webpage explicitly welcomes video visitation, which may happen through “virtually any good telephone or web linked PC with a webcam and microphone.”
As you possibly can see, there isn’t any prohibition towards display screen recording from folks on the surface, which the jail couldn’t implement even when they needed to.
The undersigned produced his title and New Mexico bar card, produced the identification of Ms. Peters’ legal professional of file, and disclosed the iPad I might be taking into the power to Sheriff Deputy Michael Walters (Badge #16005).
I used to be cleared by his chain of command after they confirmed my identification, credentials, and searched my individual. There is no such thing as a rule proscribing an legal professional from taking a pill into the power that has recording functionality.
In reality, it’s customary apply for attorneys to fulfill with their purchasers to file statements, take digital notes, and in some circumstances present authorized analysis whereas on the grounds. The assembly room has floor-to-ceiling home windows, is clear and underneath recorded surveillance.”
If there was no advantage to Toulouse’s criticism, I requested Clements why he thought it was filed. He answered, “To maintain me underneath continued investigation. The method is the punishment.
I’ve to inform potential purchasers that my illustration might harm them by advantage of an ever-present black cloud hovering over my license. It additionally takes up appreciable money and time on my finish defending towards these endless complaints.
“However to raised reply your query, you must know who Trent Toulouse is. He’s a psychology professor at a New Mexico group faculty that runs a radical left web site referred to as ‘RationalWiki.’ He’s on the board of trustees because the operations supervisor.
“ RationalWiki’s X web page, I’ve positioned a submit advocating that the age of consent to have interaction in sexual activity with an grownup be lowered to 14. He simply took that down after I filed my response. The web page is a treasure trove of perversion, and an incubator to focus on conservative influencers. I’ve obtained screenshots of all of it.”
He continued: “And if Toulouse’s title sounds vaguely acquainted, it’s as a result of he’s a household relation of New Mexico Secretary of State, Maggie Toulouse Oliver.”
The image now begins to sharpen. Clements’s audit work in New Mexico has supplied the premise for quite a few articles exposing election corruption in New Mexico – and that has confirmed to be a private wrecking ball to Oliver.
In August 2021, Trent Toulouse filed his first bar criticism towards Clements, accusing him of “sedition and treason” after he made a presentation at a Cyber Symposium in regards to the 2020 election that hundreds of thousands of individuals watched.
Round that point, New Mexico State College suspended Clements from his instructing job within the enterprise faculty for refusing to topic his college students to the masks and COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
A second criticism arrived shortly thereafter from legal professional Nicholas Bullock, accusing Clements of jeopardizing the college’s security as a result of his affect as a subject-matter knowledgeable in shopper safety legislation stood as a stark rebuttal to the “settled science” that was at the moment being proliferated on campus. Every week later, fellow NMSU Professor Jamie Bronstein filed a 3rd criticism, making comparable allegations. A video on Rumble titled “Law Professor REFUSES to MASK UP or get the JAB,” which garnered tons of of 1000’s of views, set a lot of those occasions in movement.
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Tall Poppy Syndrome
Clements turned a straightforward goal after he appeared on Tucker Carlson’s primetime show, and in addition due to his historical past of thumbing his nostril on the college for woke DEI “antiracism” and “antidiscrimination” insurance policies. For instance, out of roughly 60 college school senators, Clements was the one one to vote towards a proper assertion declaring that New Mexico State College was based on institutional (i.e., white) racism. “We’re a Hispanic-majority state, and our state was based 50 years after the abolishment of slavery!” Clements stated later. “However my vote gave the Marxist school all they wanted to play the race sport.”
The opening salvo from the primary three Disciplinary Board investigations required Clements to supply 5,000 authorized paperwork from tons of of election circumstances nationwide on which he had provided commentary in response to questions throughout varied podcasts. Concurrently, the college was working by again channels to gather proof it might use to fireside him from his social media posts.
In response to the bar and his college’s groupthink on all issues COVID-19, Clements ended up writing and submitting a legal treatise on the virus, highlighting scientific articles, authorized defenses from the Nuremburg Code, and arguments supplied underneath the Federal Commerce Fee prohibiting misleading practices.
He provided to stroll the Disciplinary Board by election proof aggregation web sites to indicate them the place they might find and look at 1000’s of sworn affidavits and knowledgeable election reviews. In reality, he was so painfully useful to the tribunal that the Disciplinary Board began backtracking as he supplied receipt after receipt on the rigged 2020 election. The board modified its request for five,000 paperwork to a paltry 10 affidavits. To Clements, it appeared as if the board needed to restrict what he placed on the file.
In the meantime, the college was unable to rebut a single declare Clements made within the medical-legal treatise he delivered to fight what seemed to be an inevitable firing; Clements printed your complete termination hearing online.
Gone, However Not Forgotten
After being tied up for months with discovery manufacturing, Clements finally prevailed towards his first three accusers. He maintained his legislation license whereas the Disciplinary Board issued an advisory opinion that fell effectively in need of exonerating him.
Later, he mirrored on his preliminary success regarding why he wasn’t sanctioned.
“The reply is easy,” he stated. “They knew I used to be about to be fired from the college. And the day after my termination listening to, I used to be.”
However as a substitute of going away, Clements went on the warpath.
With the steadfast help of his spouse, Erin — a formidable licensed engineer and knowledge analyst — he secured approval to carry out a commissioned forensic audit of Otero County, New Mexico, and partial audits in seven different counties statewide in regards to the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.
The audit group they chose was akin to one thing Clements would have pulled collectively when he was a prosecutor taking up a drug trafficking group: Nation-state vulnerability specialists, grasp statisticians, and IT professionals analyzed every little thing they might get their fingers on. They ended up producing a report so devastating in its scope that Otero was the primary county nationwide to vote to do away with Dominion Voting Programs and take away Mark Zuckerberg-funded poll drop bins. It additionally voted to sue Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver for illegally certifying a fraudulent system.
The Clementses’ knowledgeable group believed they confirmed that Dominion illegally wiped the entire 2020 election file from the county’s Election Administration System – which made it an lively crime scene.
Whereas the audit was being carried out, the U.S. Congress issued a cease-and-desist order against its prime contractort. The order, signed by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), claimed the auditors have been participating in voter intimidation, and included subpoenas demanding that every one communications be turned over to the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
With Congress intervening, the Otero Fee fell underneath stress from each path to distance itself from the Clementses. And naturally, the media and social media performed their roles: a political operative uploaded a TikTok video fabricating an encounter with “intimidating” canvassers that by no means occurred. The Each day Beast printed the fabricated account, all too completely satisfied to take part in a nationwide smear marketing campaign.
After which “it obtained worse,” Clements stated. “Operatives schemed with a two-faced Otero County legal professional who labored behind the scenes to close down the audit and discredit the group.”
A Pivotal Assembly
One such effort concerned the county legal professional drafting a public censure, which might rebuke Clements’s canvassing group. The fee would learn the censure aloud and vote on it, with propaganda shops standing by to publish a false narrative that the auditors have been violating voters’ civil rights.
When the Clementses realized of the scheme, they drove to Alamogordo, New Mexico from their dwelling in Las Cruces to attend the Otero County assembly. There, they uncovered the supply of the fabricated encounter and performed voicemail message after voicemail message of leftist political operatives leaving dying threats for Clements and his spouse.
“As every voicemail was performed, you may see [the county attorney] shrinking in measurement, wanting increasingly resigned that their scheme was being uncovered in actual time,” Clements stated. [Watch the whole encounter at “Otero County Commission Meeting March 10, 2022.” [Fast-forward to the 2:30:00 mark for this part.]
After the rebuttal, the legal professional nonetheless half-heartedly pushed for a censure, however to no avail. The fee voted to rescind it. Regardless, the Clementses’ efforts to rid the county of Dominion have been short-lived: Clements later met with County Sheriff David Black and District Legal professional Scot Key. “I handed them possible trigger on a silver platter to grab the tabulators that have been wiped by Dominion,” he recalled. “I bear in mind them taking a look at me like I had misplaced my thoughts, like, ‘What do you count on us to do, go to conflict with the federal authorities?”
With a lot of the Otero County commissioners nonetheless holding the road to do away with Dominion Programs voting machines, Mark Zuckerberg-funded poll drop bins, and sue New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a radical leftist community aided by Oliver went to work to undo the victory.
“First, Oliver petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Courtroom for a Writ of Mandamus,” Clements defined. “Inside 24 hours, the Courtroom declared that the Otero County fee had no alternative however to certify what they believed to be a fraudulent election. The courtroom additionally referred the commissioners to a George Soros-funded legal professional basic to prosecute them if they didn’t present a rubber stamp of approval.”
Because of this, one county commissioner modified his vote, terrified of being arrested; the opposite two held sturdy.
So three people in New Mexico, supported by a coalition starting from a D.C.-based NGO referred to as Residents for Duty and Ethics to the NAACP and the watchdog group Frequent Trigger, together with a number of New Mexico-based legislation corporations, filed a lawsuit in left-leaning Santa Fe County to take away Otero Commissioner Couy Griffin from workplace. Griffin had been deemed to be “an insurrectionist” for praying and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance exterior the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.
Whereas federal prosecutors declined to cost Griffin with something tantamount to rebel, an out-of-county civil lawsuit was used as pretext to take away him – after which bar him from holding workplace for the remainder of his life.
“Why?” requested Clements. “As a result of for a heartbeat, the election cartel feared that different commissioners would uncover that they had the ability to say no to corruption.”
Justice Denied
When the mud settled, the bulk vote to make the wanted adjustments in Otero County and sue the Secretary of State had vanished.
“Sheriff Black, who holds himself out as a constitutional sheriff, stood by whereas Griffin was bodily escorted from his commissioners’ workplace. Sickening.” stated Clements. “He’s probably the most brave commissioner within the nation. He gave the hassle every little thing he had.”
Undeterred, Clements proceeded to journey to 47 states over the following three years — holding tons of of proof seminars, offering authorized briefs, and equipping residents to develop into specialists in their very own proper to face up towards the maladministration of native elections.
Nebraska election activists Brad and Connie Reinke shared some insights into Clements’s mentality throughout that point. “He drove a 17-hour journey by the evening to get to a gathering in our county of 6,000 after his flight was canceled,” stated Connie. “And wouldn’t settle for fee for his providers.”
Brad added, “To make issues extra difficult, his flight dwelling was cancelled on account of unhealthy climate, and he needed to be at a county assembly the following night for a vital vote. I obtained to be part of his journey when he agreed to let me drive him again by the evening. It was surreal to have this man I’ve examine crashing at the back of my minivan on couch cushions.”
Religious Warfare
Two extra Disciplinary Board investigations in search of to disbar Clements adopted in late 2022. One criticism was lodged by apolitical operative who ran for workplace on the Democrat ticket in one of many counties the Clementses audited, claiming he had slandered her. Clements finally prevailed — however not with out the investigator writing an advisory opinion that his actions have been “appropriate for the FBI.” That advisory opinion was leaked to the press and have become a canine whistle for others to file complaints.
So a fifth investigation got here courtesy of a girl Clements realized was corresponding straight with Disciplinary Board investigators weeks earlier than she filed her criticism. In his Response to the Disciplinary Board, Clements proved that she had made the next statements:
- “I do know it’s a vacation weekend however I needed to ship you what I’ve once I discover it….”
- “You would possibly wish to get this data over to Jane Gagne ASAP….”
- “You would possibly wish to learn this thread…. These two are mentally unstable. However I do know you possibly can solely cope with complaints about David sadly not (his spouse).”
As a substitute of dismissing the criticism based mostly on its clear battle of pursuits, the Disciplinary Board subjected Clements to a different preliminary investigation. Clements supplied the Board with screenshots of an internet site his accuser operated, which contained occult tarot card readings about his and his spouse’s deaths. Two of his accuser’s ominous warnings have been submitted to the Disciplinary Board:
- “It’s fascinating she is your current card. Think about what your future card reveals. The Empress simply would possibly imply it is going to be a girl who will likely be answerable for your downward spiral.”
- “Sooner or later you’ll be made to appear like a idiot, as a result of you’re a idiot. You’ll in all probability even take an madness plea sooner or later.”
I requested Clements if he really felt his license was in jeopardy, given how ridiculous the criticism was. “Each criticism is completely different,” he stated. “I believe after I supplied the Board with the occult screenshots, they knew they needed to abandon ship. The worst half was that I by no means acquired a proper ruling on the criticism. For years, I’d have to inform purchasers that I used to be nonetheless underneath investigation. That’s how they obtained their pound of flesh.”
Urgent On
Clements stored busy doing the work of a lawyer, however stayed tight-lipped, figuring out his public profile could possibly be used towards his purchasers.
“I attempt to be a tough goal,” he stated. “Decide my spots. Get in. Get out.” For instance, prosecutors pursued nation-state vulnerability knowledgeable Jeff Lenberg in Michigan after he exposed election machines shifting thousands of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden in Antrim County. In Georgia, Lenberg — based mostly on Clements’s knowledgeable opinion — believed he confirmed that Dominion machines have been remotely accessed throughout an election. As corrupt legislation enforcement began concentrating on the investigators, Clements took Lenberg on as a shopper.
“I might have owed tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} to a legislation agency to signify me,” Lenberg stated. “[Clements] wouldn’t take a penny. “He defended me in Curling v. Raffensperger — the case the place CISA needed to admit the tabulators had huge vulnerabilities. Throughout my deposition, we sparred with over a dozen attorneys on the opposite facet for eight hours, with David making objection after objection. Efforts have been made to indict me in Fani Willis’ RICO prosecution of President Trump. Within the Michigan prosecution, David met straight with the particular prosecutor and two different attorneys of their workplace. He doesn’t keep away from battle. To this point, the efforts to indict me have failed.”
Then there may be the high-profile J6 prisoner, Jake Lang, a 29-year-old from upstate New York who spent practically 4 years behind bars awaiting trial.
“I’ve labored with dozens of attorneys. David is in a category of his personal,” he stated. “I used to be a month out from trial, and he agreed to be my legal professional. He refused a number of makes an attempt to compensate him. From late-night calls to visiting me in jail, he’s been there for me.
“His documentary confirmed the true story about J6ers and elections. Because the nation realized what was actually taking place, the dialogue of getting pardons turned an actual chance. Trump received and I used to be pardoned. David waited exterior the gulag within the freezing chilly for 2 days so he might give me a hug.”
Amid all of the distractions, Clements managed to put in writing and direct an explosive documentary in regards to the January 6 protest towards the 2020 election outcomes and the way J6 “rioters” have been focused by the Biden administration referred to as Let My People Go. However even that was not free from lawfare. The documentary was hacked during its release and cancelled by its bank card processing and DVD packaging firms. Simply after the launch, Clements was targeted by the IRS.
The movie’s cinematographer and editor, Kent Esmeier, had a front-row seat for all of that motion. “You’ll discover the film is uncredited with exception of the J6 prisoners,” he identified. “David didn’t need the artists to be focused, even when that meant nobody knew we made the movie. [We spent] many early mornings, late nights, going backwards and forwards, enhancing. “He’s fueled by the Holy Spirit and a endless cup of espresso. I’m glad to name him my buddy.”
Beginning a Ministry
I requested Clements how he retains his perspective, not letting the lawfare get to him. “Folks like Jake [Lang],” he responded. “Regardless of how unhealthy issues are, somebody goes by one thing worse. Specializing in the J6 prisoners has helped me not do the pity social gathering factor.”
In 2021, Clements began a ministry referred to as “The Prisoners File,” which served the wants of J6 prisoners. Tim Rivers, creator of the ebook The American Gulag Chronicles provided his ideas on what the ministry has meant. “Over the 4 years of the Biden administration’s pursuit of January 6 protestors, The Prisoners File’s nightly prayer vigils have continued with no lacking a single day,” he stated. “Its dialogue channels turned a middle level of resistance and communications. Different subchannels have been fashioned from it. Some centered on commissary wants and letter writing … others on calls to motion. However in hindsight, all of them sprang organically from The Prisoner’s File. They raised over $2 million that went on to prisoners.” As with the remainder of his efforts, Clements refused to permit any of the directors to take a wage.
Whereas his buddies and colleagues are fast to supply reward, a fast web search gives numerous unfavorable articles about Clements, principally associated to his election advocacy. I requested him if he knew what number of.
“I used Google alerts,” he stated. “I finished counting after a few 1,000 hit items. I’m not saying these have been distinctive tales. You’d see bizarre stuff, like a Washington Publish article about me being reprinted word-for-word in a Malaysian newspaper. Or an area story from my hometown in New Mexico displaying up in a Clemson, South Carolina, scholar newspaper. So, the identical story could possibly be circulating with 50 completely different publishers. It wasn’t natural.”
A Coordinated Effort?
Clements’s suspicions have all however been confirmed. Based on a reality sheet which has since been taken offline, in 2023, USAID funded coaching and help for six,200 journalists, assisted 707 non-state information shops, and supported 279 media-sector civil society organizations. Former Administrator Samantha Energy admitted the company’s position in influencing “strategically necessary elections” by utilizing the “Democratic Elections Fund.” USAID directed practically $500 million into the secretive, U.S. government-funded NGO Internews Community, which collaborated with 4,291 media shops, had produced 4,799 hours of broadcasts in a single yr — reaching as much as 778 million folks — and educated over 9,000 journalists as of 2023.
The Internews Community additionally has supported social media censorship initiatives. Unsurprisingly, most of the information shops that printed hit items about Clements acquired USAID funding. “Now perceive that the American Bar Affiliation has been confirmed to obtain hundreds of thousands from USAID,” stated Clements. “It’s unhealthy sufficient that the media has been purchased off, however organizations that regulate my career are additionally on the take.”
I requested Clements to place apart the newest investigation for 2 final questions. What has been the important thing to survival, and what’s subsequent? He responded:
“God’s every day provision. His goodness. He has saved our nation. This newest investigation is nothing greater than an enemy drawing its final dying breath — desperately thrashing about, too silly to comprehend it’s already defeated.
“Now we have received. Trump is in. Most J6 prisoners have been pardoned and launched. DOGE is kicking butt. And Trump simply declared to governors in all places that we’re eliminating the rigged machines. I’ll get by this, and as soon as Tina Peters is ready free, I’ll take an enormous victory lap.
“As for what’s subsequent… my cabin burned down in a type of mysterious fires final summer season. My household wants to begin selecting up the items to rebuild. We’ll begin there.”
