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Re: Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2
« Reply #4844 on: March 18, 2022, 01:24:16 PM »
REVEALED: Trump appointee ordered DHS to probe voter fraud 'fantasy' months before 2020 election



One of Donald Trump's top political appointees directed the Department of Homeland Security to investigate voter fraud in the 2020 election -- more than six months before the votes were counted.

Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general who served as deputy secretary of the DHS, asked a senior official in April 2020 to have analysts in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis look for evidence of mail-in voting fraud, which the former president fixated on before and after his re-election loss, reported Politico.

“What makes this inappropriate is that the underlying activity is a fantasy,” said Ben Wittes, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, "and there are no circumstances in which the Intelligence Community should be tasked to collect on fantasies.”

Later in summer 2020 they were tasked with investigating possible hacking of political campaigns, voter intimidation and illegal entry into polling places, and as Election Day neared, DHS investigators were told to look into “attempts to alter, destroy, sell, or hide mail-in ballots,” which were all conspiracy theories amplified by Trump online, during rallies and even in presidential debates.

“The ‘sell, destroy, or hide mail ballots’ — that’s a theoretical conspiracy that I’ve heard talked about, but there’s no evidence that that has occurred,” said Amber McReynolds, a former Colorado election official.

Analysts raised concerns about the directives during a series of listening sessions held in September and October, when voters were already casting ballots.

“People questioned a tasking related to reporting on voter fraud,” read one memo on the sessions that Politico reviewed. “‘Is this criminal activity appropriate for an IC agency?’ Thresholds and priorities are judgment calls from leadership and many people questioned whether taskings were politically motivated.”

“The workforce has a general mistrust of leadership resulting from orders to conduct activities they perceive to be inappropriate, bureaucratic, or political,” the memo added.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/18/trump-dhs-bogus-claims-voter-fraud-00018365

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Re: Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2
« Reply #4845 on: March 18, 2022, 11:28:39 PM »
In order to be a MAGA Trump radical you need to be a religious lunatic. It's really a shame what the GOP has turned into since 2015. In order to be accepted in their cult, you have to worship Donald Trump, push his lies and conspiracies, be part of the Qanon cult, preach violence, praise Putin, and be a crazy religious fanatic. Look at all these crazy radicals running for the GOP primaries, they are absolutely nuts just like this woman. These people have zero qualifications to be in government. Republicans need to start electing sane and responsible people to represent them, and if there isn't any, then don't put these lunatics in office.           

California MAGA candidate says she’s running because Jesus spoke to her son in a closet



California Republican Rachel Hamm is running for Secretary of State in the June primary. Like many candidates, she is speaking about her motivation for running. Like many GOP candidates, she is claiming God was involved in her decision. Unlike any other candidate, Hamm says Jesus spoke to her son in a closet and told her to declare her candidacy.

“I’ve been a prophetic dreamer so I had spent a lot of 2019 and 20 having a lot of political dreams that I was in office. And because our youngest son, Ezekiel is a seer I went and got him and I said, ‘Hey, can you look around and see what you’re seeing?’ Because I just really, I get a kick out of hearing him describe, you know, what he sees?”

“And so, he said, you know, let me know if you see anything. And so he looked at my bedroom and my bathroom. He said, ‘There’s nothing there.’ And then he goes into the closet – which is where I had been when I was praying – and he said, ‘Whoa,’ and his eyes got like, big as saucers, and he kind of like started backing away, and then started bending down and he said, ‘You’ve got a really big guy in your closet, and his power is pushing me to the ground,’ and we had never had he’d never had that reaction ever, to an angel. And so I’m like, is he’s for us, not against us, right?”

“‘He’s full of light, I can’t even see his face.’ And then he said, ‘he has a scroll in his hand.’ And so I was like, then he came with a message is what is the message and the message was a commissioning. so at the very end, I asked him what his name was. ‘What angel is this?’ you know? And he said, ‘Immanuel,’ That wasn’t an angel. It wasn’t an angel that was Jesus Himself. And so that’s why I’m running for Secretary of State.”

California GOP Secretary of State candidate Rachel Hamm said today that she decided to run for office after her son found Jesus inside a closet in their home, and Jesus handed him a scroll telling her to declare her candidacy.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1504615074497011715

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Re: Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2
« Reply #4846 on: March 18, 2022, 11:34:54 PM »
Pay up Donnie!

Trump suffers another NDA debacle as his campaign is ordered to pay legal fees to former staffer



Donald Trump’s campaign organization has been ordered to pay more than $350,000 in legal fees and expenses for trying to enforce an “unenforceable” nondisclosure agreement (NDA) against a former staffer, according to an order entered this month in a nonpublic arbitration case.

The March 10 order, which was made public this week by the former staffer’s attorneys, is another setback for the Trump campaign in its effort to use NDAs to try to punish former staffers who publicly criticize or take legal action against Trump. BuzzFeed News reports that an arbitrator found that even though Alva Johnson’s effort to sue Trump failed, the campaign couldn’t invoke a legally unsound nondisclosure agreement. She had accused Trump of trying to forcibly kiss her and raised pay discrimination claims. A judge dismissed that case.

As BuzzFeed noted of Trump, "When he ran for president in 2016, many campaign workers were reportedly directed to sign nondisclosure agreements that broadly barred them from sharing information about the campaign or saying negative things about Trump, his family, and his businesses; the agreement specified that the campaign could press complaints about alleged violations of the agreement in arbitration."

In two previous cases, though, a judge and an arbitrator concluded that key sections of the NDAs were too vague and ill-defined to be constitutionally enforceable. In Johnson’s case, arbitrator Victor Bianchini - who is a retired federal magistrate from California - found those decisions persuasive and dismissed the campaign’s complaint against Johnson late last year.

Johnson’s lawyers then filed to have the campaign pay their legal bills as the winning party. Bianchini agreed and ordered the campaign to pay $303,285; the campaign also will have to cover the costs of the arbitration itself, which totaled about $50,000.

“The Trump campaign has tried to use its unenforceable NDA to unlawfully silence its critics,” Johnson’s lawyer Hassan Zavareei said in a statement. “We are pleased that the arbitrator has held that these efforts cannot stand and ordered the campaign to compensate our client for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees that the campaign forced her to incur.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-campaign-nda-pay-arbitration

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Re: Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2
« Reply #4847 on: March 19, 2022, 10:19:24 AM »
Weak Donnie gazing lovingly at his puppet master Putin.


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Re: Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2
« Reply #4848 on: March 19, 2022, 12:22:45 PM »
War And Lies: Trump Republicans Confronted With Past Putin Praise On TV

Many Republican leaders have praised Vladimir Putin and misled Americans about the facts of his record as a dictator. This MSNBC report documents some of those claims, featuring them in contrast to recent reporting and footage about Putin's invasion of Ukraine. This is part of a larger report by MSNBC’s Ari Melber.

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« Reply #4849 on: March 19, 2022, 12:38:21 PM »
Trump Praises Putin’s Movements In Ukraine

Donald Trump called Russian President Putin’s decision to send troops into parts of Ukraine as “smart” and “savvy.” Robert Gibbs and Bill Kristol weigh in.

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Re: Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2
« Reply #4850 on: March 19, 2022, 02:29:20 PM »
Trump Praises Putin’s Movements In Ukraine

Donald Trump called Russian President Putin’s decision to send troops into parts of Ukraine as “smart” and “savvy.” Robert Gibbs and Bill Kristol weigh in.

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No invasion under Trump.  The dead care less about words than results.  Your obsession with Trump is not only bizarre but this thing with Russia is disinformation.

"The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling, it's an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur.  We are praying for the proud people of Ukraine. God bless them all."

President Donald J. Trump (statement on 02/26/22)