CNP Attorney Cleta Mitchell Joins Trump Call Pressuring Georgia Officials

On January 2, 2021, Cleta Mitchell - CNP board of governors member and attorney who had been central to the organization’s election denial coordination - represented President Trump on his infamous call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, pressuring him to “find 11,780 votes” to overturn Biden’s Georgia victory.

Mitchell’s participation in the call represented the direct application of CNP’s coordinated election denial strategy. She had presented voter fraud theories at CNP’s November 12-14 strategy meeting, drafted CNP’s December 10 letter calling on state legislators to throw out 25 million votes, and now participated in Trump’s direct pressure on a state election official.

The call demonstrated how CNP members moved seamlessly between the organization’s strategy meetings and operational execution. Mitchell wasn’t acting as a lone attorney; she was executing a strategy coordinated through CNP’s network that involved Heritage Foundation research, ALEC state-level pressure, and grassroots mobilization by Tea Party Patriots and other CNP member organizations.

Cleta Mitchell was a driving force behind election integrity allegations at CNP’s closed-door meetings and worked closely with Trump as he disputed the 2020 election results. Her role spanned CNP’s internal coordination (November strategy meeting), movement-wide coordination (December letter to legislators), and direct presidential-level execution (January 2 Georgia call).

The Georgia call occurred four days before the January 6 rally that CNP members had been promoting and organizing. Mitchell’s involvement connected CNP’s strategic planning (November meeting), written advocacy (December letter), direct pressure on election officials (January 2 call), and the coming January 6 mobilization into a coordinated whole.

This illustrated CNP’s power as a coordination mechanism: a single organization’s members could develop strategy, author official communications, participate in presidential operations, coordinate legal challenges, and mobilize grassroots protests - all in service of a unified objective coordinated through CNP’s secretive meetings.

Mitchell’s trajectory from CNP strategy sessions to the Trump-Raffensperger call exemplified how CNP functioned as the command structure for the conservative movement’s attempted election overturn.