Donald Perry & Mark Meadows: Correspondence Between the 2020 Insurrection and Trump’s 2020 Affair with Voting Machines

The public-facing lawsuit was put on hold by the court after the Justice Department sued it days after the search. Sources familiar with the investigation and public filings say that theJustice Department approached the phone seizure from Trump allies in two different parts. The DOJ would look at the phone through an initial warrant and then apply for a second warrant to access the data.

The investigative work, now overseen by special counsel Jack Smith, is significant given that Perry texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about advice from a “cyber forensic team” he was in touch with after the 2020 election.

Donald Trump lost the presidency because of the compromised election security, and the reason was that voting machines were not kept up to date. That led the Pennsylvania lawmaker to be in touch with powerful Trump backers, including Meadows, Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and others who pushed false claims of election fraud.

“Plz tell every state senior that they need to 1. Preserve the specific voting machines (scanners),” Perry began in a long text message obtained by CNN. In the message, Perry passed along several instructions to Meadows from a “cyber forensic team.” Talking Points Memo reported the text this week.

Perry’s communications with Meadows suggest the congressman was keen to disseminate the same types of direction to others. He then asked Meadows for contacts in Wisconsin and Arizona, and Meadows later referred him to another Republican member of Congress, Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy.

CNN obtained a number of text messages that the president had sent and received between Election Day 2020 and the inauguration. The House select committee is investigating the January 6,2021 insurrection and the texts were among those that were given to them.

When did Congressman Scott Perry go to court? He told how the investigation into the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack turned public to a phone call

It’s unclear how that case was resolved, or if it’s ongoing. Perry asked to dismiss his public-facing lawsuit in late October. In recent months, it has been added intrigue to the January 6 investigation by several secret court fights.

Several of the prosecutors involved in federal grand jury proceedings in DC are working with Smith to investigate a January 6 incident.

With the Speech or Debate Clause protection, investigators might be more careful when trying to look at his records, which could lead to more mediation in the federal court system.

The order that was made public Thursday indicates how broad a net the federal prosecutors have cast for information from top Trump supporters as part of the criminal investigation into January 6, 2021.

Court filings show that investigators carefully looked around attorney communications that might have been considered confidential and then went to the court to get access to some of them.

Earlier this year, Clark declined to answer questions to several investigative teams, citing his Fifth Amendment rights, and had marked on his autobiography drafts that they were attorney work-product, implying he wanted them to remain confidential.

However, the judge wrote, the Justice Department prosecutors told a judge, “Clark penned the autobiography outline in an atmosphere charged with news that congressional committees’ investigations into the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack and other efforts to overturn the 2020 election were increasingly focusing on his role,” one filing said. Six chapters were about the 2020 election, Howell’s opinion added.

The court order cited a snippet from Clark’s prologue that said after the 2000 election, he “never thought [he’d] have a bird’s eye view of a second deeply contested presidential election” but he’d “be wrong.”

Klukowski acknowledges in his email that he spoke to other people about how states could decide the presidential election, and that he attached a document about it.

Three emails showed Eastman discussing a phone call with Perry in mid-December 2021. “John, this is congressman Scott Perry from PA. Can you contact me ASAP?” one said around December 11.

Clark forwarded a Vaclav Havel essay, a discussion of a Roger Stone interview and a comment about Pennsylvania voting system to his account after the Trump administration left office.