The Independent: “Donald Trump asked intelligence officials to investigate a bizarre conspiracy theory that Chinese thermostats changed votes in the 2020 election, a new book claims. The one-term president was said to be ‘intrigued’ by the theory presented to him by Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, according to the forthcoming book Betrayal, by Jonathan Karl of ABC News. Mr Clark led the DOJ’s civil division and worked with Mr Trump to cast doubt on the result of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden. ‘(Clark) believed that wireless thermostats made in China for Google by a company called Nest Labs might have been used to manipulate voting machines in Georgia,’ Mr Karl wrote in the soon-to-be-released book. ‘The idea was nuts, but it intrigued Trump, who asked Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to look into it'”