“You refuse to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election? But you ask to lead America’s intelligence community? Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the president’s delusions? We know, you know, everybody in this room knows the truthful answer to that question, why can you not give it?”

Jon Ossoff · said 2026-07-15 · reported 2026-07-17

Ossoff challenged Clayton for refusing to state the truth about the 2020 election while seeking to lead the intelligence community.