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The latest episode in the left’s non-stop smear campaign against America First leadership played out on NBC’s Meet the Press this weekend, as Atlantic Editor-in-Chief and longtime anti-Trump operative Jeffrey Goldberg took aim at Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL).

Goldberg, long regarded by conservatives as a Democratic lapdog and regime mouthpiece, found himself added to a Signal group chat containing sensitive military chatter, thanks to what Congressman Mike Waltz called an honest mistake.

Waltz took full responsibility for the digital mishap.

Recall, in an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz broke his silence on the now-infamous Signal app leak that included the infiltration of a Trump administration national security group chat by a Trump-hating Atlantic editor.

Ingraham grilled Waltz on how the editor’s number ended up in the chat. Determined to get answers, she pushed harder, questioning why Goldberg’s number was even saved on his phone.

Waltz doubled down, insisting the contact must have “sucked in somehow” – though he couldn’t explain how. He claimed the person he thought was in the group chat wasn’t there—it was Goldberg instead.

Mike Waltz:
Well, look, a staffer wasn’t responsible. Look, I take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything’s coordinated. But how does that—I don’t mean to be pedantic here, but how did the number get into the chat? Have you ever had somebody’s contact that shows their name, and then you have somebody else’s number there?

Laura Ingraham:
I never make those mistakes.

Mike Waltz:
You’ve got somebody else’s number on someone else’s contact. Of course, I didn’t see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical means is something we’re trying to figure out.

Laura Ingraham:
A staffer did not put his contact information?

Mike Waltz:
Of course not. No.

Laura Ingraham:
But how did it end up in your phone?

Mike Waltz:
That’s what we’re trying to figure out.

Laura Ingraham:
But that’s a pretty big problem.

Mike Waltz:
That is why we’ve got the best technical minds, right? That’s disturbing. I’m sure everybody out there has had a contact where it said one person and then a different phone number.

Laura Ingraham:
But you’ve never talked to him before, so how’s the number on your phone? I’m not an expert in any of this, but it’s just curious. How’s the number on your phone? Someone sent you that contact?

Mike Waltz:
Well, if you have somebody else’s contact and then somehow it gets sucked in…

Laura Ingraham:
Was there someone else supposed to be on the chat that wasn’t on the chat—that you thought was on the chat? That you thought was on there?

Mike Waltz:
The person that I thought was on there was never on there. It was this guy.

Laura Ingraham:
Who was that person?

Mike Waltz:
Well, I’m not—look, Laura, I take responsibility. I built the group. But look, that’s the part we have to figure out. That’s the part that we were… Embarrassing, yes, but Pete and I are veterans. We know these operations. He has been an excellent Secretary of Defense, and this was an operation that—I mean, it amazes me. I guess the Democrats were fine to leave all the sea lanes shut down. We’re fine to have destroyers fired on dozens of times by this terrorist group and fine to have Iran keep supplying them with missiles. That was okay. The President takes decisive action. Now we’re seeing some real success in taking down their air defenses, opening the sea lanes, taking out their leadership. We don’t want to talk about that. We don’t want to talk about this.

But that wasn’t good enough for Goldberg, who took to national television to claim Waltz was lying about never having spoken to him.

Goldberg dismissed Waltz’s explanation that the phone number could’ve been pulled in automatically via a contact.

Jeffrey Goldberg:
“Well, this isn’t The Matrix. Phone numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones. I don’t know what he’s talking about there. You know, very frequently in journalism, the most obvious explanation is the explanation. My phone number was in his phone because my phone number is in his phone. He’s telling everyone that he’s never met me or spoken to me. That’s simply not true. I understand why he’s doing it, but this has become a somewhat farcical situation. There’s no subterfuge here. My number was in his phone. He mistakenly added me to the group chat. There we go.”

WATCH:

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that according to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, Mike Waltz was a source for Jeffrey Goldberg while he was serving on the House Intel Committee.

Per Paul Sperry: Though Waltz insists, “I wasn’t talking to [Goldberg],” a US intel official told me Waltz was a source for Goldberg while on HPSCI. “There’s no need for an investigation to figure out how he was added to the chat. Goldberg was in his address book b/c he’s been talking to him”

For what it’s worth, Mike Waltz attended an event moderated by Jeffrey Goldberg in 2021.

Waltz was photographed standing near Goldberg.

Michael Waltz claimed that he’s “never met, don’t know, never communicated with” Jeffrey Goldberg.

Here’s a photo of Waltz standing next to Goldberg during a 2021 event at the French Embassy.

The event Waltz attended—a Q&A with a French filmmaker—was moderated by Goldberg. pic.twitter.com/eTqOY7xnTl

— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) March 26, 2025

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On Sunday morning, the Republican Party of New Mexico’s headquarters was violently attacked in a coordinated act of political terrorism.

The building’s entryway was destroyed by a deliberate act of arson, with vandals scrawling the words “ICE = KKK” across the property.

“On March 30, 2025 at 05:56, Albuquerque Fire Rescue was dispatched with Bernalillo County Fire Rescue to 5160 San Francisco Dr. NE for a reported structure fire,” Albuquerque Fire Department posted on Facebook.

The post added, “Engine 15 arrived on scene and reported working fire. The fire was brought under control within 5 minutes of their arrival. The structure suffered damage to the front entryway and smoke damage throughout the building. No injuries to civilians or firefighters were reported. AFR Fire Investigators are currently on scene along with teams from the FBI and ATF. This is an active and ongoing investigation. No additional information available at this time.”

While no injuries were reported, the message from the perpetrators was clear: disagree with the far-Left, and you will be intimidated, silenced, or worse.

Read the full media release below:

Early this morning, the entryway of the Republican Party of New Mexico’s headquarters in Albuquerque was destroyed in a deliberate act of arson which also included spray painting the words ‘ICE=KKK.’

This horrific attack, fueled by hatred and intolerance, is a direct assault on our values, freedoms, and our right to political expression.

This is not an isolated incident. It is part of a disturbing pattern of politically motivated violence that has plagued our country—fueled in part by the silence and implicit encouragement from progressive leaders who refuse to condemn these acts.

Their failure to stand against political violence has created an environment where attacks like this are not only possible but increasingly frequent.

“We are deeply relieved that no one was harmed in what could have been a tragic and deadly attack. Those who resort to violence to undermine our state and nation must be held accountable, and our state leaders must reinforce through decisive action that these cowardly attacks will not be tolerated,” said Republican Party of New Mexico Chairwoman Amy Barela.

“We are working closely with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), local law enforcement, and federal investigators. We are committed to providing every piece of evidence necessary to bring those responsible to justice and ensure they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We will not allow New Mexico’s broken criminal justice system to dilute the seriousness of this attack.

The Republican Party of New Mexico will not be silenced. We will emerge from this stronger, more united, and more determined to fight for the people of New Mexico and the future of our country.

Let us not forget: it was the Democrat Party that once supported the formation of the KKK, pushed Jim Crow laws, and defended slavery. Today, we see the same dangerous tendencies play out in new forms—attempts to suppress free speech, silence dissent, and use fear to control the political narrative.

Our fight is not just for our party—it’s for every New Mexican who wants a safer, freer, and more accountable state. We will never back down.”

Deliberate Arson Targets GOP Headquarters in Albuquerque

ALBUQUERQUE, MARCH 30—Early this morning, the entryway of the Republican Party of New Mexico’s headquarters in Albuquerque was destroyed in a deliberate act of arson which also included spray painting the words ‘ICE=KKK.’… pic.twitter.com/pSAtIUrSAR

— Republican Party of New Mexico (@NewMexicoGOP) March 30, 2025

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The White House reportedly has plans to take over the seating chart in the briefing room, a power once held by the far-left White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA). 

Currently, the seating arrangement is controlled by the WHCA, and conservative outlets like The Gateway Pundit, One America News Network, and Real America’s Voice are pushed to the sides of the room where we can only hope to catch the press secretary’s eye for a question.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced last month that the WHCA will no longer hold its iron grip over deciding which outlets get to participate in the coveted White House press pool and cover more intimate areas in the White House. Since then, Leavitt has introduced a New Media rotation for pool reporters to cover the President in the Oval Office, on Air Force One, and other spaces where only a limited number of reporters can access.

BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt Strips White House Correspondents’ Association of Its “Monopoly” Over White House Press Access, Announces New Plans to Expand Press Pool to New Media (VIDEO)

Now, the White House is expected to expand the New Media pool to the White House briefing room seats.

“This administration is shaking up Washington in more ways than one,” Leavitt said previously, noting, “that’s what we were elected to do.”

This comes after the Associated Press asked a federal judge to grant an emergency Temporary Restraining Order against the Trump Administration and restore its access to areas in the White House after the far-left outlet was booted from the Oval Office this month over its refusal to acknowledge President Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”

A federal judge later denied the Associated Press’s emergency motion to restore its access to the White House press pool. The Associated Press had a second hearing Thursday, where they again asked for reinstatement to the press pool. U.S. District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden, a Trump appointee, has not made a decision in the case.

Per Axios,

Discussing the coming seating chart, the senior White House official said plans have already been formalized for a “fundamental restructuring of the briefing room, based on metrics more reflective of how media is consumed today.”

• The new layout will include representatives of TV, print and digital outlets. The digital assignments will include both online influencers and newer organizations such as Axios, NOTUS and Punchbowl.

“The goal isn’t merely favorable coverage,” said the official, who was granted anonymity to discuss plans that haven’t been announced. “It’s truly an honest look at consumption [of the outlets’ coverage]. Influencers are important but it’s tough because they aren’t [equipped to provide] consistent coverage. So the ability to cover the White House is part of the metrics.”

• Major legacy outlets will still be included. But expect some to have diminished visibility compared with their customary spots in the first few rows. “We want to balance disruption with responsibility,” the official said.

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Radical America-hating Obama-Judge James Boasberg is fighting to give Tren de Aragua gang-bangers, criminals, and killers, individual rights that he stripped from J6 Defendants in the courtroom.

Judge James Boasman, the self-proclaimed leader of the executive branch, rejected the Trump administration’s call to rescind his restraining order, saying the Venezuelans marked for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act are likely to win — because they are entitled to individual hearings/due process.

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg rejects Trump administration call to rescind his restraining order, saying the Venezuelans marked for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act are likely to win — because they are entitled to individual hearings/due process. https://t.co/8tdhWw2OIk pic.twitter.com/UWSkS4pyvV

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 24, 2025

This is the same judge that would not give J6 defendants the right to examine evidence to defend themselves in court before trial.

According to Grok-AI, in March 2023, Boasberg denied defendant Sara Carpenter’s request to delay her trial to review newly released Capitol security footage from Speaker Kevin McCarthy, arguing she failed to show how it would be exculpatory and citing the risk of derailing multiple trials.

Sara Carpenter entered the US Capitol and shook a tambourine. For this, he gave her 22 months in prison.

9/11 First Responder NYPD Policewoman is Now a Convicted Felon for Entering Capitol & Shaking Tambourine on January 6th! FOUND GUILTY ON SEVEN COUNTS BY D.C. Jury! ROSARY BEADS WERE CONFISCATED AS EVIDENCE!

In a 2023 speech to law students at the University of Chicago, he expressed frustration that existing laws did not allow for harsher charges against January 6 defendants, noting there were no specific statutes criminalizing actions like storming the Capitol to interfere with electoral certification. He suggested “a lot of law still to be made” in this area, hinting at a belief that defendants’ actions warranted stronger legal consequences than what current statutes permitted.

Earlier, in 2023, as incoming chief judge, he described January 6 as an “insurrection” in court, despite no defendant being formally charged or convicted of insurrection under 18 U.S.C. § 2383, raising questions about prejudgment.

Judge Boasberg showed little concern for January 6 defendants’ broader due process rights, such as pretrial detention conditions. For instance, he did not publicly address documented issues like solitary confinement or medical care delays in the D.C. jail, despite presiding over cases where such conditions affected defendants.

His previous stance contrasts with his later scrutiny of due process in deportation cases involving illegal Venezuelan migrants and gang-bangers in 2025, prompting accusations of selective advocacy.

Judge James Boasberg is a very partisan and wicked person. He has no business deciding the fate of an individual American. He certainly has no business leading the executive branch.

But, like a typical modern-day Democrat, Boasberg is fighting to give rights to illegal alien killers, rapists, and criminals while he persecutes his political opposition. He would, obviously. be happier in Venezuela than in Washington, DC.

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Numerous leftists have been caught keying Tesla cars and Cybertrucks amid nonstop media attacks against Elon Musk.

However, some of the attacks against Tesla owners have become violent.

A 61-year-old woman driving a Tesla was boxed in by a male driver and beaten by him while she was sitting in her car.

The violent attack took place in Flagstaff, Arizona, last week.

The victim, who wished to remain anonymous and was referred to as “Susan,” told AZ Family that she was appalled when a motorist chased her, boxed her in and began beating her through an open car window.

“I’m just appalled,” Susan told AZ Family. “I didn’t buy my car for a political statement. I bought my car because its really fun to drive. My politics have nothing to do with that. I’m ashamed of our society and what they are doing.

Susan said she bit the attacker’s hand as he repeatedly punched her with a closed fist.

The suspect was charged and is due in court this week.

Another woman told AZ Family that found a nasty note on her Tesla after she left a Flagstaff grocery store.

The note said she is a “Nazi” and a “loser.”

WATCH:

Last week Las Vegas police arrested Paul Kim, 36, related to his “targeted attack” on a Tesla center.

Per Fox News reporter Bill Melugin: Las Vegas Metro Police say a search of Tesla firebombing suspect Paul Kim’s social media shows him with potential communist & pro-Palestine affiliations. They say they have a DNA match and showed video of him using a rifle to shoot out surveillance cameras before attack.

NEW: Las Vegas Metro Police say a search of Tesla firebombing suspect Paul Kim’s social media shows him with potential communist & pro-Palestine affiliations. They say they have a DNA match and showed video of him using a rifle to shoot out surveillance cameras before attack. pic.twitter.com/RykYhLzXEQ

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 27, 2025

According to police, Paul Kim used Molotov cocktails and firearms during his attack on the Tesla center last Tuesday morning.

Kim was charged with third-degree arson, shooting a gun into an abandoned structure/vehicle, destruction of real property, and possession of a flammable device.

Tesla owners have taken to social media asking for help from the public identifying vandals caught on their vehicle’s camera system.

EXCLUSIVE: Cops are looking for an unhinged Karen in Issaquah, WA after she was caught on camera keying a Tesla Model Y. I’ve slowed down parts of this video to help identify this woman. @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/FxZ2PJude9

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) March 23, 2025

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President Trump told reporters this morning that he is weighing options and methods to seek a third term as President of the United States. 

The President says that right now, he is “focused on the current,” and “it’s far too early to think about it.”

When asked if he wanted a third term, he reportedly said, “I like working.”

Per NBC:

President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”

“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call with NBC News, referring to his allies. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”

“I’m not joking,” Trump said, when asked to clarify. “But I’m not — it is far too early to think about it.”

When asked whether he has been presented with plans to allow him to seek a third term, Trump said, “There are methods which you could do it.”

One of these methods could involve JD Vance running for office and stepping down for Trump to take over. “But there are others too,” the President added, refusing to share more with the leftist outlet.

This also comes as GOP lawmakers are weighing the option of amending the 22nd Amendment.

Earlier this month, War Room host and Trump advisor Steve Bannon told News Nation’s Chris Cuomo, “I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028. I’ve already endorsed President Trump,” doubling down on his comments at CPAC in February.

“We’ve had greater longshots than Trump 2028. We’ve got a lot of stuff we’re working on. We’re not prepared to talk about it publicly,” Bannon said.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Third Term Project, spearheaded by Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) who introduced a resolution in January 2025, is pushing for a constitutional amendment to permit a president to be elected up to three times, provided their prior terms were non-consecutive, a condition tailored to Trump as the only living ex-president with non-consecutive terms.

They argue that a third Trump term would “reverse the nation’s decay and restore America to greatness.”

Trump 2028? Third Term Project Explores Constitutional Amendment to Allow Trump’s 3rd Term

The Gateway Pundit will provide updates on President Trump’s historic second term and the potential for a third.

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President Trump on Sunday ramped up his attack on radical Judge James Boasberg and hinted that he may pull his security clearance.

“People are shocked by what is going on with the Court System. I was elected for many reasons, but a principal one was LAW AND ORDER, a big part of which is QUICKLY removing a vast Criminal Network of individuals, who came into our Country through the Crooked Joe Biden Open Borders Policy! These are dangerous and violent people, who kill, maim and, in many other ways, harm the people of our Country. The Voters want them OUT, and said so in Record Numbers. If it was up to District Judge Boasberg and other Radical Left Judges, nobody would be removed, the President wouldn’t be allowed to do his job, and people’s lives would be devastated all throughout our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Shortly after President Trump fired off a Truth Social attacking Boasberg, Trump reposted a Truth from former Gorsuch clerk Mike Davis calling for the District Court judge’s security clearance to be revoked:

Dear President Trump:

Please revoke Judge Boasberg’s security clearance.

He has demonstrated he cannot be trusted with keeping secrets.

Judge James Boasberg on Friday sided with criminal gang members and extended his temporary restraining order (TRO) in the Alien Enemies Act case until April 12.

The TRO was set to expire on March 29.

“On March 15, 2025, this Court issued two Temporary Restraining Orders that will expire on March 29, 2025, unless extended. Those TROs enjoin Defendants from removing from the United States the named Plaintiffs — and a provisionally certified class of all noncitizens in U.S. custody — solely on the basis of the Presidential Proclamation entitled, “Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua.” Plaintiffs have now filed a Motion to Extend the TROs for another 14 days for “good cause.” ECF No. 64 (Mot.) at 1; see also Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(b)(2) (court may extend TRO for “like period” if there is “good cause” to do so),” Judge Boasberg wrote.

Judge Boasberg said he is extending his TRO because the plaintiffs need more time to file motions and prepare arguments.

“As this Court recently explained, Plaintiffs are entitled to a TRO enjoining their removal at least until they have had a chance to challenge that they are covered by the Proclamation,” Judge Boasberg wrote.

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied the Trump DOJ’s request to lift Judge Boasberg’s block on the Alien Enemies Act deportation flights.

The three judge panel on the DC Circuit Court: Henderson (George W. Bush appointee), Millett (Obama appointee), and Walker (Trump appointee) voted 2-1 – with Judge Walker dissenting.

President Trump on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to intervene in the Alien Enemies Act case after a federal appeals court denied the stay of an injunction barring the Trump administration from deporting criminal aliens.

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House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries just said the quiet part out loud about the upcoming election in Wisconsin.

During a Democratic National Committee update broadcaster on Friday afternoon, Jeffries talked with DNC Chair Ken Martin about the importance of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election on Tuesday.

Jeffries explained:

In Wisconsin, that’s a 50-50 race, because we know Wisconsin’s a 50-50 state, and we have a strong Democratic candidate. Whoever wins is going to determine who has the majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Why is that important? Because there are gerrymandered congressional lines right now in Wisconsin. Wisconsin’s a 50-50 state, as I mentioned, but there are six Republicans and only two Democrats out of an eight-person delegation, because the lines are broken.

And as soon as possible, we need to be able to revisit that and have fair lines. The only way for that to be even a significant possibility is if you have an enlightened Supreme Court. And so I think that’s an incredibly important race.

Watch the clip below:

STAKES IN WISCONSIN | Hakeem Jeffries himself laid out the plan for Dems to win the US House in ’26:

An “enlightened” (radical leftist) WI Supreme Court that will draw up new Dem districts.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. If you’re in WI, go vote and bring someone with you! pic.twitter.com/iAAQ4tQXL7

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 29, 2025

Wisconsin is one of the few states whose Supreme Court judges are elected via public ballot.

Though officially nonpartisan, the race will shape the ideological balance of the Supreme Court, which currently has a 4-3 liberal majority following Justice Janet Protasiewicz’s victory in 2023.

If a liberal majority is maintained, Democrats will have the opportunity to gerrymander congressional districts, eliminate all abortion restrictions, and block any conservative legislation passed by a future Republican-controlled state legislature.

However, Democrats are already gearing up for potential election fraud in the knowledge that it will be easier to get away with than the presidential election.

Just this week, an election watchdog found that 5,000 voter registrations in the heavily Democratic city of Milwaukee have been legally challenged for irregularities, potential fraud, and blatant violations of state and federal law.

Election Watchdog Uncovers Nearly 5,000 Potentially Illegal Voter Registrations in Milwaukee Ahead of Crucial Wisconsin Elections

Meanwhile, Republicans are throwing their full weight behind Republican candidate Brad Schimel, who was recently endorsed by President Trump.

WISCONSIN: Make sure to VOTE EARLY for BRAD SCHIMEL! pic.twitter.com/FIhGRtV14B

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 22, 2025

Among those pouring money into the election is Elon Musk, who is even offering voters the chance to win massive cash prizes if they register to vote ahead of the all-important election.

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Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team recently appeared on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier”, marking their first major group interview.

During the hour-long discussion, Musk, alongside seven key team members, defended their ambitious goal of cutting $1 trillion from the federal deficit, claiming they are already slashing $4 billion daily from government spending.

The team, including figures like Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia and longtime Musk associate Steve Davis, emphasized modernizing government systems, with Gebbia proposing an “Apple Store-like experience” for federal services like easier updated retirement processing.

Musk addressed criticisms about disruptions to agencies like Social Security, asserting that their work would ultimately benefit legitimate recipients by reducing fraud.

The interview revealed for the first time ever voices on the DOGE team working for the American people. While Democrats claim DOGE is stealing from Americans, it’s actually the opposite, they are working to make sure American’s are not stolen from.

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Prominent election integrity lawyer and former law professor David Clements, known for his podcasts and landmark 2024 documentary about election fraud, Let My People Go, has been predictably under vicious attacks by the left over the past few years.

They are filing bar complaint after bar complaint against him, and got him fired from his law professor job at New Mexico State University due to refusing to subject his students to the mask and COVID-19 experimental drug mandates.

The retaliation against him for leading an election audit in New Mexico’s Otero County has been vile, resulting in death threats against him and his wife. However, he isn’t backing down, and instead is continuing to stand up to the corrupt political witch hunts.

This is my interview with him exposing what has happened to him. The details are stunning and frightening.  

On February 14, 2025, former law professor David Clements was 680 miles away from his wife, Erin, meeting with election integrity experts on how to capitalize on the new Trump administration’s sweeping reforms to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse throughout the federal government — but with a focus on elections.

At 6:17 pm, while most couples were celebrating Valentine’s Day, Clements received a text photo from Erin. Moments before, she had opened a letter marked “CONFIDENTIAL” from the Supreme Court 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 recent visit with former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in a Colorado jail — Peters being the wrongfully convicted and courageous whistleblower that exposed Dominion Voting Systems — was achieved through “false pretenses.”

She was sentenced to nine years after a sham trial that excluded nearly all her defenses and most of her testifying experts — one of whom was Clements.

Unable to help Peters at trial, Clements sought to bring greater awareness of her conditions by publishing a short video update with her, which went viral.  The Clementses knew the claims were patently absurd – but reactions were markedly different.  Clements texted Erin back “Yay!!!” He seemed to relish another opportunity to fight the bar association.

But when he called his wife, she was understandably worn down. “They never stop,” she said.

And she would know. This was the sixth complaint filed against Clements since August 2021 — and even worse, it would prove to be the start of a sixth preliminary investigation to determine whether Clements should be disbarred.

His latest accuser? Oddly enough, it was the same man who had brought accusations against him in 2020 that had gotten him fired from his job at New Mexico State University: Trent Toulouse.

We encourage you to read every word of Clements’s response to the Disciplinary Board.

What this journalist found is that the Toulouse complaint pales in comparison to a much larger story — namely, a coordinated effort between political operatives, government-funded media, and the bar association to destroy Clements.

I recently took the time to interview him and several others with whom he has crossed paths over the past several years.

“The Process Is the Punishment”

Clements easily rebutted Toulouse’s claims of entering a secure facility under “false pretenses.” Here is a short excerpt from his response:

“There is no legal or ethical prohibition for an attorney, whether licensed in the forum state or not, to visit a prisoner…. [t]he webpage explicitly welcomes video visitation, which can take place via “almost any smart phone or internet connected PC with a webcam and microphone.”

As you can see, there is no prohibition against screen recording from people on the outside, which the jail could not enforce even if they wanted to.

The undersigned produced his name and New Mexico bar card, produced the identity of Ms. Peters’ attorney of record, and disclosed the iPad I would be taking into the facility to Sheriff Deputy Michael Walters (Badge #16005).

I was cleared by his chain of command after they confirmed my identity, credentials, and searched my person. There is no rule restricting an attorney from taking a tablet into the facility that has recording capability.

In fact, it is customary practice for attorneys to meet with their clients to record statements, take electronic notes, and in some cases provide legal research while on the grounds. The meeting room has floor-to-ceiling windows, is transparent and under recorded surveillance.”

If there was no merit to Toulouse’s complaint, I asked Clements why he thought it was filed. He answered, “To keep me under continued investigation. The process is the punishment.

I have to tell prospective clients that my representation could hurt them by virtue of an ever-present black cloud hovering over my license. It also takes up considerable time and money on my end defending against these never-ending complaints.

“But to better answer your question, you have to know who Trent Toulouse is. He’s a psychology professor at a New Mexico community college that runs a radical left website called ‘RationalWiki.’ He’s on the board of trustees as the operations manager.

“Looking at RationalWiki’s X page, I’ve located a post advocating that the age of consent to engage in sexual intercourse with an adult be lowered to 14. He just took that down after I filed my response. The page is a treasure trove of perversion, and an incubator to target conservative influencers. I’ve got screenshots of it all.”

He continued: “And if Toulouse’s name sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because he is a family relation of New Mexico Secretary of State, Maggie Toulouse Oliver.” 

The picture now begins to sharpen. Clements’s audit work in New Mexico has provided the basis for numerous articles exposing election corruption in New Mexico – and that has proven to be a personal wrecking ball to Oliver.

In August 2021, Trent Toulouse filed his first bar complaint against Clements, accusing him of “sedition and treason” after he made a presentation at a Cyber Symposium concerning the 2020 election that millions of people watched.

Around that time, New Mexico State University suspended Clements from his teaching job in the business college for refusing to subject his students to the mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

A second complaint arrived shortly thereafter from attorney Nicholas Bullock, accusing Clements of jeopardizing the university’s safety because his influence as a subject-matter expert in consumer protection law stood as a stark rebuttal to the “settled science” that was at that time being proliferated on campus.  A week later, fellow NMSU Professor Jamie Bronstein filed a third complaint, making similar allegations. A video on Rumble titled “Law Professor REFUSES to MASK UP or get the JAB,” which garnered hundreds of thousands of views, set much of these events in motion.

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Tall Poppy Syndrome

Clements became an easy target after he appeared on Tucker Carlson’s primetime show, and also because of his history of thumbing his nose at the university for woke DEI “antiracism” and “antidiscrimination” policies. For example, out of approximately 60 university faculty senators, Clements was the only one to vote against a formal statement declaring that New Mexico State University was founded on institutional (i.e., white) racism. “We are a Hispanic-majority state, and our state was founded 50 years after the abolishment of slavery!” Clements said later. “But my vote gave the Marxist faculty all they needed to play the race game.”

The opening salvo from the first three Disciplinary Board investigations required Clements to produce 5,000 legal documents from hundreds of election cases nationwide on which he had offered commentary in response to questions during various podcasts. Simultaneously, the university was working through back channels to collect evidence it could use to fire him from his social media posts.

In response to the bar and his university’s groupthink on all things COVID-19, Clements ended up writing and submitting a legal treatise on the virus, highlighting scientific articles, legal defenses from the Nuremburg Code, and arguments provided under the Federal Trade Commission prohibiting deceptive practices.

He offered to walk the Disciplinary Board through election evidence aggregation websites to show them where they could locate and view thousands of sworn affidavits and expert election reports. In fact, he was so painfully helpful to the tribunal that the Disciplinary Board started backtracking as he provided receipt after receipt on the rigged 2020 election. The board modified its request for 5,000 documents to a paltry 10 affidavits. To Clements, it seemed as if the board wanted to limit what he put on the record.

Meanwhile, the university was unable to rebut a single claim Clements made in the medical-legal treatise he delivered to combat what looked to be an inevitable firing; Clements published the entire termination hearing online.

Gone, But Not Forgotten

After being tied up for months with discovery production, Clements eventually prevailed against his first three accusers. He maintained his law license while the Disciplinary Board issued an advisory opinion that fell well short of exonerating him.

Later, he reflected on his initial good fortune concerning why he wasn’t sanctioned.

“The answer is simple,” he said. “They knew I was about to be fired from the university. And the day after my termination hearing, I was.”

But instead of going away, Clements went on the warpath.

With the steadfast support of his wife, Erin — a formidable licensed engineer and data analyst — he secured approval to perform a commissioned forensic audit of Otero County, New Mexico, and partial audits in seven other counties statewide concerning the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The audit team they selected was akin to something Clements would have pulled together when he was a prosecutor taking on a drug trafficking organization: Nation-state vulnerability experts, master statisticians, and IT professionals analyzed everything they could get their hands on. They ended up producing a report so devastating in its scope that Otero was the first county nationwide to vote to get rid of Dominion Voting Systems and remove Mark Zuckerberg-funded ballot drop boxes. It also voted to sue Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver for illegally certifying a fraudulent system.

The Clementses’ expert team believed they confirmed that Dominion illegally wiped the entire 2020 election file from the county’s Election Management System – which made it an active crime scene.

While the audit was being performed, 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 were engaging in voter intimidation, and included subpoenas demanding that all communications be turned over to the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

With Congress intervening, the Otero Commission fell under pressure from every direction to distance itself from the Clementses. And of course, the media and social media played their roles: a political operative uploaded a TikTok video fabricating an encounter with “intimidating” canvassers that never happened. The Daily Beast published the fabricated account, all too happy to participate in a national smear campaign.

And then “it got worse,” Clements said. “Operatives schemed with a two-faced Otero County attorney who worked behind the scenes to shut down the audit and discredit the team.”

A Pivotal Meeting

One such effort involved the county attorney drafting a public censure, which would rebuke Clements’s canvassing team. The commission would read the censure aloud and vote on it, with propaganda outlets standing by to publish a false narrative that the auditors were violating voters’ civil rights.

When the Clementses learned of the scheme, they drove to Alamogordo, New Mexico from their home in Las Cruces to attend the Otero County meeting. There, they exposed the source of the fabricated encounter and played voicemail message after voicemail message of leftist political operatives leaving death threats for Clements and his wife.

“As each voicemail was played, you could see [the county attorney] shrinking in size, looking more and more resigned that their scheme was being exposed in real time,” Clements said. [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 attorney still half-heartedly pushed for a censure, but to no avail. The commission voted to rescind it. Regardless, the Clementses’ efforts to rid the county of Dominion were short-lived: Clements later met with County Sheriff David Black and District Attorney Scot Key.  “I handed them probable cause on a silver platter to seize the tabulators that were wiped by Dominion,” he recalled. “I remember them looking at me like I had lost my mind, like, ‘What do you expect us to do, go to war with the federal government?”

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.”

Amid all the distractions, Clements managed to write and direct an explosive documentary about the January 6 protest against the 2020 election results and how J6 “rioters” were targeted by the Biden administration called Let My People Go.  But even that was not free from lawfare. The documentary was hacked during its release and cancelled by its credit card processing and DVD packaging companies. Just after the launch, Clements was targeted by the IRS.

The film’s cinematographer and editor, Kent Esmeier, had a front-row seat for all of that action. “You’ll notice the film is uncredited with exception of the J6 prisoners,” he pointed out. “David did not want the artists to be targeted, even if that meant no one knew we made the film. [We spent] many early mornings, late nights, going back and forth, editing. “He’s fueled by the Holy Spirit and a never-ending cup of coffee. I’m glad to call him my friend.”

Starting a Ministry

I asked Clements how he keeps his perspective, not letting the lawfare get to him.  “People like Jake [Lang],” he responded. “No matter how bad things are, someone is going through something worse. Focusing on the J6 prisoners has helped me not do the pity party thing.”

In 2021, Clements started a ministry called “The Prisoners Record,” which served the needs of J6 prisoners. Tim Rivers, creator of the book The American Gulag Chronicles offered his thoughts on what the ministry has meant. “Over the four years of the Biden administration’s pursuit of January 6 protestors, The Prisoners Record’s nightly prayer vigils have continued without a missing a single day,” he said. “Its discussion channels became a center point of resistance and communications. Other subchannels were formed from it. Some focused on commissary needs and letter writing … others on calls to action. But in hindsight, they all sprang organically from The Prisoner’s Record. They raised over $2 million that went directly to prisoners.” As with the rest of his efforts, Clements refused to allow any of the administrators to take a salary.

While his friends and colleagues are quick to offer praise, a quick internet search offers countless negative articles about Clements, mostly related to his election advocacy. I asked him if he knew how many.

“I used Google alerts,” he said. “I stopped counting after about a 1,000 hit pieces. I’m not saying these were unique stories. You’d see weird stuff, like a Washington Post article about me being reprinted word-for-word in a Malaysian newspaper. Or a local story from my hometown in New Mexico showing up in a Clemson, South Carolina, student newspaper. So, the same story could be circulating with 50 different publishers. It wasn’t organic.”

A Coordinated Effort?

Clements’s suspicions have all but been confirmed. According to a fact sheet which has since been taken offline, in 2023, USAID funded training and support for 6,200 journalists, assisted 707 non-state news outlets, and supported 279 media-sector civil society organizations. Former Administrator Samantha Power admitted the agency’s role in influencing “strategically important elections” by using the “Democratic Elections Fund.” USAID directed nearly $500 million into the secretive, U.S. government-funded NGO Internews Network, which collaborated with 4,291 media outlets, had produced 4,799 hours of broadcasts in a single year — reaching up to 778 million people — and trained over 9,000 journalists as of 2023.

The Internews Network also has supported social media censorship initiatives. Unsurprisingly, many of the news outlets that published hit pieces about Clements received USAID funding. “Now understand that the American Bar Association has been proven to receive millions from USAID,” said Clements. “It’s bad enough that the media has been bought off, but organizations that regulate my profession are also on the take.”

I asked Clements to put aside the latest investigation for two last questions. What has been the key to survival, and what’s next? He responded:

“God’s daily provision. His goodness. He has saved our country. This latest investigation is nothing more than an enemy drawing its last dying breath — desperately thrashing about, too stupid to know it’s already defeated.

“We have won. Trump is in. Most J6 prisoners have been pardoned and released. DOGE is kicking butt. And Trump just declared to governors everywhere that we are getting rid of the rigged machines. I’ll get through this, and once Tina Peters is set free, I’ll take a giant victory lap.

“As for what’s next… my cabin burned down in one of those mysterious fires last summer. My family needs to start picking up the pieces to rebuild. We’ll start there.”

 

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