Category: Trump Official / Political Operative
Role: DOJ senior counsel who collaborated with Jeffrey Clark on a draft letter to state officials claiming election fraud and urging appointment of alternate Trump electors; cooperated with the January 6 Committee
Priority: P1 (Participated in the DOJ institutional coup attempt — using the Department of Justice’s authority to pressure states into overturning election results; Heritage Foundation and Trump transition team connections)

Accountability Status

Current status: Cooperated with J6 Committee; practices law at Schaerr Jaffe LLP
Legal exposure: Cooperating witness status may provide protection; no charges filed; Clark was indicted in Georgia (Fulton County) but Klukowski was not named

Investigative trail pointers (public records)

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For Trump Supporters: Questions Worth Considering

Kenneth Klukowski was a DOJ senior counsel who co-drafted a letter with Jeffrey Clark that would have directed the Department of Justice to send Georgia officials a document falsely claiming that DOJ had “identified significant concerns” about election irregularities — and urging the governor and legislature to convene a special session to appoint a Trump elector slate. The letter was not true. Trump’s own Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Deputy AG Richard Donoghue rejected it, found no evidence to support its claims, and warned that sending it would constitute an abuse of DOJ authority. Clark then went to Trump directly and offered to become attorney general so he could send the letter himself. Donoghue warned Trump that appointing Clark would trigger mass resignations across the DOJ.

Here’s a question worth sitting with: Rosen and Donoghue — Trump’s own appointed leaders of the Department of Justice — rejected this plan. They didn’t reject it because they were Democrats or never-Trumpers. They rejected it because it was based on false claims and would have constituted an abuse of their institution’s authority. When Trump’s own DOJ leadership says “this isn’t true and we won’t do it,” what does that tell you about whether the claims in the letter were accurate?

A second question about institutional pressure: If a Democratic administration had drafted a letter from the DOJ to Republican-controlled states falsely claiming election irregularities and urging those states to appoint Democratic elector slates — would you consider that an appropriate use of the Justice Department? The question isn’t whether you trust Republicans or Democrats more generally. It’s whether using the institutional credibility of the Department of Justice to advance false claims for partisan electoral gain is acceptable. Apply that principle consistently.

Sources

• ABC News, “DOJ officials rejected colleague’s request to intervene in Georgia’s election certification: Emails,” 2021
• Seattle Times / Washington Post, “Inside the explosive Oval Office confrontation three days before Jan. 6,” June 2022
• Philadelphia Inquirer, “New details emerge of Oval Office confrontation three days before Jan. 6,” June 2022
• Ballotpedia, “Ken Klukowski” (biographical sources)

Last Updated: May 11, 2026