The War Against David Clements, Part 3

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Yesterday, The Stream published the second installment of a four-part series about the years-long efforts to discredit former New Mexico State University law professor David Clements, who is now facing fresh allegations that could result in his disbarment. In Part 2, he and a team of experts audited the election results in Otero County, New Mexico, which led to a victory — and a smear campaign against them. Journalist Rachel Alexander continues the story.

With most of the Otero County commissioners still holding the line to get rid of Dominion Systems voting machines, Mark Zuckerberg-funded ballot drop boxes, and sue New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a radical leftist network aided by Oliver went to work to undo the victory.

“First, Oliver petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Court for a Writ of Mandamus,” Clements explained. “Within 24 hours, the Court declared that the Otero County commission had no choice but to certify what they believed to be a fraudulent election. The court also referred the commissioners to a George Soros-funded attorney general to prosecute them if they did not provide a rubber stamp of approval.”

As a result, one county commissioner changed his vote, fearful of being arrested; the other two held strong.

So three individuals in New Mexico, supported by a coalition ranging from a D.C.-based NGO called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics to the NAACP and the watchdog group Common Cause, along with several New Mexico-based law firms, filed a lawsuit in left-leaning Santa Fe County to remove Otero Commissioner Couy Griffin from office. Griffin had been deemed to be “an insurrectionist” for praying and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.

While federal prosecutors declined to charge Griffin with anything tantamount to insurrection, an out-of-county civil lawsuit was used as pretext to remove him – and then bar him from holding office for the rest of his life.

“Why?” asked Clements. “Because for a heartbeat, the election cartel feared that other commissioners would discover they had the power to say no to corruption.”

Justice Denied

When the dust settled, the majority vote to make the needed changes in Otero County and sue the Secretary of State had vanished.

“Sheriff Black, who holds himself out as a constitutional sheriff, stood by while Griffin was physically escorted from his commissioners’ office. Sickening.” said Clements. “He is the most courageous commissioner in the country. He gave the effort everything he had.”

Undeterred, Clements proceeded to travel to 47 states over the next three years — holding hundreds of evidence seminars, providing legal briefs, and equipping citizens to become experts in their own right to stand up against the maladministration of local elections.

Nebraska election activists Brad and Connie Reinke shared some insights into Clements’s mentality during that time.

“He drove a 17-hour trip through the night to get to a meeting in our county of 6,000 after his flight was canceled,” said Connie. “And wouldn’t accept payment for his services.”

Brad added, “To make matters more complicated, his flight home was cancelled due to bad weather, and he had to be at a county meeting the next evening for a crucial vote. I got to be a part of his adventure when he agreed to let me drive him back through the night. It was surreal to have this guy I’ve read about crashing in the back of my minivan on sofa cushions.”

Spiritual Warfare

Two more Disciplinary Board investigations seeking to disbar Clements followed in late 2022. One complaint was lodged by apolitical operative who ran for office on the Democrat ticket in one of the counties the Clementses audited, claiming he had slandered her. Clements ultimately prevailed — but not without the investigator writing an advisory opinion that his actions were “suitable for the FBI.”

That advisory opinion was leaked to the press and became a dog whistle for others to file complaints.

So a fifth investigation came courtesy of a woman Clements learned was corresponding directly with Disciplinary Board investigators weeks before she filed her complaint.

In his Response to the Disciplinary Board, Clements proved that she had made the following statements:

• “I know it’s a holiday weekend but I wanted to send you what I have when I find it….”
• “You might want to get this info over to Jane Gagne ASAP….”
• “You might want to read this thread…. Those two are mentally unstable. But I know you can only deal with complaints about David sadly not (his wife).”

Instead of dismissing the complaint based on its clear conflict of interests, the Disciplinary Board subjected Clements to another preliminary investigation. Clements provided the Board with screenshots of a website his accuser operated, which contained occult tarot card readings about his and his wife’s deaths.

Two of his accuser’s ominous warnings were submitted to the Disciplinary Board:

• “It’s interesting she is your present card. Consider what your future card reveals. The Empress just might mean it will be a woman who will be responsible for your downward spiral.”
• “In the future you will be made to look like a fool, because you are a fool. You will probably even take an insanity plea at some point.”

I asked Clements if he truly felt his license was in jeopardy, given how ridiculous the complaint was.

“Every complaint is different,” he said. “I think after I provided the Board with the occult screenshots, they knew they had to abandon ship. The worst part was that I never received a formal ruling on the complaint. For years, I’d have to tell clients that I was still under investigation. That’s how they got their pound of flesh.”

Pressing On

Clements kept busy doing the work of a lawyer, but stayed tight-lipped, knowing his public profile could be used against his clients.

“I try to be a hard target,” he said. “Pick my spots. Get in. Get out.”

For example, prosecutors pursued nation-state vulnerability expert 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 on Clements’s expert opinion — believed he showed that Dominion machines were remotely accessed during an election. As corrupt law enforcement started targeting the investigators, Clements took Lenberg on as a client.

“I would have owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to a law firm to represent me,” Lenberg said. “[Clements] wouldn’t take a penny.

“He defended me in Curling v. Raffensperger — the case where CISA had to admit the tabulators had massive vulnerabilities. During my deposition, we sparred with over a dozen lawyers on the other side for eight hours, with David making objection after objection. Efforts were made to indict me in Fani Willis’ RICO prosecution of President Trump. In the Michigan prosecution, David met directly with the special prosecutor and two other attorneys in their office. He doesn’t avoid conflict. So far, the efforts to indict me have failed.”

Then there is the high-profile J6 prisoner, Jake Lang, a 29-year-old from upstate New York who spent nearly four years behind bars awaiting trial.

“I have worked with dozens of attorneys. David is in a class of his own,” he said. “I was a month out from trial, and he agreed to be my attorney. He refused multiple attempts to compensate him. From late-night calls to visiting me in prison, he’s been there for me.

“His documentary showed the real story about J6ers and elections. As the country learned what was really happening, the discussion of getting pardons became a real possibility. Trump won and I was pardoned. David waited outside the gulag in the freezing cold for two days so he could give me a hug.”

Look for the final installment of this series on The Stream tomorrow.

Rachel Alexander is the editor and founder of Intellectual Conservative. Named one of the top 78 news influencers on X by Pew Research, she is a reporter for Arizona Sun Times, a regular contributor to Townhall, WND, and more. She frequently appears on TV and news radio as a conservative commentator.