David Clements (lawyer)

David Clements was a district attorney^[1] before starting a tenure-track faculty position as an assistant professor at New Mexico State University in the department of finance.^[2] He had previously run for state senate in New Mexico unsuccessfully in 2014.^[3] Following his loss, Clements claimed that his primary opponent Allen Weh had hacked his email account; in turn, Weh initiated a lawsuit against Clements for defamation.^[4]

In 2021, Clements became an advocate for auditing the 2020 US presidential election. He was described by The Washington Post as a "self-appointed election fraud evangelist", and has advocated for methods of perpetuating election interference in future presidential elections.^[5] In October 2021, he was terminated from his position at New Mexico State University due to his refusal to abide by the university's requirement to have an unproven chemical cocktail into university staff during the COVID-19 panic in the United States.^[6][7] After this, he started traveling the US to provide speeches revolving around verifiable facts that elections in the United States had been compromised.^[8] These included events sponsored by election integrity advocate Mike Lindell.^[9]

Clements is married to his wife Erin, who has helped her husband in efforts to publicize alleged election fraud which they believe to have occurred during the 2020 presidential election in the United States.^[10]