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  On 5/1/2021 at 1:37 PM, Dr. Teeth said:

I’m actually surprised they settled before the Arizona recount was completed. That whole thing is being financed by people being sued by Dominion so they can add it as evidence for its dismissal. 

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Newsmax published a bunch of pretty scurrilous shit about Coomer, specifically, apart from any general election fraud allegations.

They had no basis in fact for doing so.  "Facts" that arise after the defamation, like some bs outcome of the Maricopa recount, wouldn't help them much.

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  On 4/28/2021 at 8:42 PM, washparkhorn said:

What is your position/case? That no current Trump supporter will later turn their backs on Trump?

I find that rather preposterous, but possible, I suppose. 

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No Trump supporter I know is open to changing their mind.

When I texted a Trumpist friend on 1/6 that you’re either with America or you’re with the terrorists, he replied:

“I agree. I am so sick and tired of BOTH parties and the way they act 😬

How do I reach this guy? He had a career in the IRS and worships a tax cheat, a guy that brags that cheating on his taxes makes him “smart.” He’s a successful amateur golfer and worships a guy who cheats at golf.

And, holy shit, apparently he sent me some texts since then that I hadn’t seen before. I think since he retired he’s been spending too much time on Facebook. He’s not my first post-retirement friend who apparently just discovered the internet meme. I have another friend who I met when we worked together at a software company in the late 90’s and it’s like he just discovered the internet in the last few years. I don’t even want to post the meme he sent in reply to my text during the insurrection, but he commented that along as his portfolio was doing okay then he didn’t really care. Will he admit that his portfolio is still doing just fine? Will he admit that it didn’t do so well under GWB? He was quick to parrot Karl Rove’s campaign slogan that he’d rather have a beer with Dubya than Gore  (Dance, monkey! Dance! Fucking puppet.)

When we can get RPM to admit that Naked & Afraid is a reality tv show, scripted and staged, and not a documentary, then I will have a glimmer of hope that maybe change is possible. I’m just not seeing it. 

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So, somewhere I saw that Wisconsin is asking for $145k in sanctions against Powell for the WI kraken shit and got much saltier about it than did Michigan in its motion for $11k.

While trying to find more information on that, I found the bar grievance filed in Texas by the Michigan AG.  https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20468081-powell_atty_complaint_-_signed_714982_7

It is pretty spectacular.  Not sure why their motion for sanctions is relatively weak sauce.  Maybe the'yre relying on the judge's personal knowledge of what transpired rather than rehasing it all.

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Man, illegally accepting money to buy off the right people to keep the story of you paying to fuck a porn star out of the news seems so quant after the last 4 years. Almost wholesome.

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Posted
  On 5/7/2021 at 1:45 PM, aggie08 said:

Man, illegally accepting money to buy off the right people to keep the story of you paying to fuck a porn star out of the news seems so quant after the last 4 years. Almost wholesome.

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Just think. He was impeached twice in one term and neither impeachment had anything to do with that. 

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  On 5/7/2021 at 1:45 PM, aggie08 said:
Man, illegally accepting money to buy off the right people to keep the story of you paying to fuck a porn star out of the news seems so quant after the last 4 years. Almost wholesome.

He’s pulled off at least 2-3 John Edwards’ (payoffs with campaign funds), 500 or so Howard Deans (weird, public outbursts), and about 30,000 Trumps (bold-faced lies).
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  On 5/7/2021 at 2:15 PM, TwiceHorn said:

That's annoying, to say the least.  But an election law violation isn't going to be Trump's downfall.

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I wish something would be his downfall, but the rate things are going I just have to continue to hope every day he dies on the shitter.

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Posted
  On 5/7/2021 at 1:54 PM, Red Five said:

Just think. He was impeached twice in one term and neither impeachment had anything to do with that. 

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Can you impeach for something a president did before taking office?  And that everyone knew about before the election?

if so, the house was really fucking slacking the last couple of years to only churn out two. 

Posted
  On 5/9/2021 at 3:05 AM, Biff Tannen said:

This because there is no god.

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If there was then Trump would’ve fallen down the stairs from Air Force One and broken his neck when he face-planted on the tarmac. At least Biden fell UP the stairs while Trump needed help to walk down a ramp. And then lied about running down it despite all video evidence to the contrary.

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  On 5/9/2021 at 6:08 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

the man is bullet proof 

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It's his cult that allows this. They've elevated him to a deity so any weakness or failing--personal or political--by their orange god is either justified as being acceptable via their pretzel logic, or ignored entirely. 

A Trumpkin who's part of a group text w/ about ten other friends went off the rails this week when Facebook extended dotard's timeout. "You may hate Trump, but he loves America more than any president in my lifetime (she's pushing 60), and we are entering sad times when big tech can sensor (sic) people for not being woke enough." Several people replied and attempted to point out where she was wrong, but it's like dealing with a 5 year old who is just going to stuff her fingers in her ears, close her eyes, and make loud noises to drown out any other conversation.

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Posted
  On 5/9/2021 at 12:21 PM, Bookman said:

Can't believe these stupid people actually believe this.

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The very same people completely lost their minds the first time Obama uttered the word “I” as president. It supposedly exemplified his extreme narcissism. As with everything else, it was always projection.

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  On 5/9/2021 at 12:24 PM, wildcat09 said:

The very same people completely lost their minds the first time Obama uttered the word “I” as president. It supposedly exemplified his extreme narcissism. As with everything else, it was always projection.

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Yup. And their proof for his "love" of the USA is...he's a billionaire*. How else would a guy who came from almost nothing be able to build such a massive empire? You can't do that in a socialist country, libtard!

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/trump-election-fraud-texas-businessman-ramsland-asog/?itid=hp-top-table-main-0430b

 

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ADDISON, Tex. — Key elements of the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump took shape in an airplane hangar here two years earlier, promoted by a Republican businessman who has sold everything from Tex-Mex food in London to a wellness technology that beams light into the human bloodstream.

At meetings beginning late in 2018, as Republicans were smarting from midterm losses in Texas and across the country, Russell J. Ramsland Jr. and his associates delivered alarming presentations on electronic voting to a procession of conservative lawmakers, activists and donors.

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Briefings in the hangar had a clandestine air. Guests were asked to leave their cellphones outside before assembling in a windowless room. A member of Ramsland’s team purporting to be a “white-hat hacker” identified himself only by a code name.

Ramsland, a failed congressional candidate with a Harvard MBA, pitched a claim that seemed rooted in evidence: Voting-machine audit logs — lines of codes and time stamps that document the machines’ activities — contained indications of vote manipulation. In the retrofitted hangar that served as his company’s offices at the edge of a municipal airstrip outside Dallas, Ramsland attempted to persuade failed Republican candidates to challenge their election results and force the release of additional data that might prove manipulation.

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“We had to find the right candidate,” said Laura Pressley, a former Ramsland ally whose own claim that audit logs showed fraud had been rejected in court two years earlier. “We had to find one who knew they won.”

He made the pitch to Don Huffines, a state senator in Texas. Huffines declined.

He tried to persuade U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.). Sessions declined.

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No candidate agreed to bring a challenge, and the idea of widespread vote manipulation remained on the political fringe — until 2020, when Ramsland’s assertions were seized upon by influential allies of Trump. The president himself accelerated the spread of those claims into the GOP mainstream as he latched onto an array of baseless ideas to explain his loss in November.

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Posted
  On 5/10/2021 at 2:37 AM, Pato del Muerto said:

I only read the first snips- how did he come to be in possession of the vote machine audit logs to know there was evidence of tampering?

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his company has been hired to audit voting machines. im sure its completely unbiased 

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  On 5/10/2021 at 2:39 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

his company has been hired to audit voting machines. im sure its completely unbiased 

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And he took the info to a bunch of losing Republican candidates in a hangar under cloak and dagger instead of making an audit report- and being a whistleblower if the audit finding weren’t released?

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  On 5/10/2021 at 2:37 AM, Pato del Muerto said:
I only read the first snips- how did he come to be in possession of the vote machine audit logs to know there was evidence of tampering?
The first batch came from Laura Pressley who got hammered in Austin City Council elections. Not sure where she got them.

Looks like the only time his group actually got their hands on election machinery was Antrim County, Meatchicken this last election. Which hand recounts show didn't flip thousands of votes from Trump to Biden.
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Posted
  On 5/10/2021 at 9:22 PM, Js1 said:

This looks extremely set up. Like they didn’t know an Obama speechwriter would say that 

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i'm pretty sure newsmax is two people in some guy's garage, so yeah, i don't know if they're all that protected when someone is willing to go on their airwaves.

i also don't even know where to find those airwaves.

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"She's deposed in a tiny, tiny country.  Rhode Island could depose the crap out of it in a war."  

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Former Trump attorney and self-proclaimed “Kraken releaser” Sidney Powell has told prospective donors that her group, Defending the Republic, is a legal defense fund to protect the integrity of U.S. elections.


But the company suing Powell over her baseless claims of a rigged presidential election says the true beneficiary of her social welfare organization is Powell herself.


Dominion Voting Systems claims Powell has raided Defending the Republic's coffers to pay for personal legal expenses, citing her own remarks from a radio interview. The Denver-based voting technology vendor sued Powell and others who spread false claims that the company helped steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump.

“Now, Powell seeks to abuse the corporate forms she created for her law firm and fundraising website to hide funds that she raised through her defamatory campaign, shielding those funds from the very company that was harmed by the defamatory campaign,” Dominion lawyers wrote in a May 5 court filing.

The dispute shines a light on how Trump allies continue to support, spread and allegedly profit from lies about fraud in the 2020 election. Although the election is settled, and all major court challenges have been dismissed, Powell's legal defense fund continues to raise money, with help from conspiracy-minded supporters like QAnon adherents.

Her group will receive a cut of proceeds from ticket sales for a Memorial Day weekend conference in Dallas called the "For God & Country Patriot Roundup," the event's website says. Some leading purveyors of far-right conspiracy theories are headliners, including Powell, pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood and former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn.

Event organizer John Sabal, known as “QAnon John" to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, declined to explain the decision to financially support Powell's nonprofit, also known as DTR, but said the money isn't for her personal benefit.

“As far as I know, DTR is benefiting a bunch of different causes. Those I will not speak on, but you can talk to her about that,” he said.

Powell didn't respond to interview requests, but one of her attorneys said she denies Dominion’s accusations. Powell's personal legal bills are covered by her malpractice carrier, and her nonprofit has a proper corporate structure with a board of directors, said her lawyer, Howard Kleinhendler.

“She does not have unfettered control over its funds or how the funds are spent," Kleinhendler wrote in an email. “DTR intends to comply with all federal and state filing requirements when they are due. At that time you as well as the rest of the world will see the necessary financials.”

Trump and his allies filed more than 50 lawsuits in multiple states over the election and lost at every turn. Powell and Rudy Giuliani were among the lawyers behind the cases claiming a conspiracy by Democrats, despite Republican state leaders, and Trump’s own attorney general and other administration officials, publicly stating there was no major election fraud. Powell appeared with Giuliani at a press conference and made multiple TV appearances.

But after Powell threatened to “blow up” Georgia with a “biblical” court filing, the Trump legal team distanced itself from her, saying she was not working on their behalf. She later made the comment on how she would release “the Kraken," an apparent reference to the film “Clash of the Titans” in which Zeus gives the order to release the mythical sea monster.


In a November interview, Powell noted she was not being paid by the Trump campaign but "by the people of the United States of America.”

Tickets for the Dallas conference cost $500 for general admission and $1,000 for VIP passes. The event's website doesn't name other beneficiaries or specify how much money goes to Powell's nonprofit. Much of the conference was supposed to be held at a complex called Gilley’s Dallas, but Sabal said the venue canceled his booking after news coverage of the event’s QAnon connections.

QAnon followers believe Trump has been secretly fighting a cabal of Satan-worshipping "deep state" enemies, prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites operating a child sex trafficking ring.

Logan Strain, a conspiracy theory researcher who co-hosts the “QAnon Anonymous” podcast, said Powell has appeared on QAnon promoters' YouTube channels and is viewed as a “hero of the republic” among QAnon followers. It wouldn't surprise Strain if Powell is trying to harness the movement as a fundraising source.

“There is a great deal of money to be made in promoting and catering to QAnon,” he said. “This is why a lot of people suspected it was sort of a money-making grift, at least in part, from the beginning.”

Defending the Republic describes itself as a 501(c)4 nonprofit, but it isn’t listed in an IRS database of tax-exempt organizations. Groups recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(4) are exempt from paying taxes on income, including donations, but those donations aren't tax deductible as charitable contributions.

Powell's website says donors can mail checks to an address in West Palm Beach, Florida, that corresponds with a UPS Store. Under the same address, Defending the Republic Inc. registered in February with Florida's Division of Corporations as a nonprofit formed for “social welfare purposes.”

Records link other leading conspiracy theorists from Trump's orbit to Powell's nonprofit. Powell, Wood, Flynn and Flynn's brother, Joseph, were named as directors of Defending the Republic in December 2020 filings with the Texas secretary of state’s office.

Joseph Flynn said in a text message that he's no longer a director but declined to explain why.

“We are not interested in talking to the fake news media,” Flynn wrote.

Wood recalls Powell asking him to serve as a director, but said he hasn't done any work on the nonprofit.

“She didn't follow up with me about it,” he said,

Articles of incorporation filed in Florida in February listed MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell as a director. But Lindell said he asked to be removed as a director of Defending the Republic after less than one week because he decided to form his own legal defense fund. Lindell is also being sued by Dominion.

“I went on my own because I don't have time for other people's stuff. I want to focus on what I’m doing," Lindell said.

Defending the Republic’s chairman and CEO is former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, whose comments about the “deep state” led to his resignation from the company in 2019.

To support its claim that Powell is using nonprofit money for her personal legal defense, Dominion cited her remarks during a Dec. 29 appearance on “The Rush Limbaugh Show." Powell told the radio show's guest host that listeners could go to her website to donate to the nonprofit “that is working to help defend all these cases and to defend me now that I’m under a massive attack from the attorney general of Michigan and the city of Detroit and everything else."

Michigan’s governor, attorney general and secretary of state — all Democrats — have urged state bar officials in Texas and Michigan to permanently disbar Powell for ethical violations over election lawsuits.

Meanwhile, Eric Coomer, Dominion’s security director, has filed a defamation suit in Colorado against Powell, her law firm, Defending the Republic and others. Another voting technology firm, Smartmatic USA Corp., sued Powell in New York over her bogus election-fixing claims.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, asked a federal court to order Powell and other lawyers who challenged Wisconsin’s election results to cover $106,000 in state legal fees. Powell called it a frivolous request. A judge hasn't resolved the dispute yet.

Dominion sued Powell on Jan. 8, seeking over $1.3 billion in damages against her, her law firm and her fundraising website. The company claimed Powell treated Defending the Republic “as her personal funds, redirecting them to the law firm she controls and dominates ... and raiding them to pay for her personal legal defense.”

A nonprofit organized under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code, as Defending the Republic claims to be, can engage in some political activities provided that's not its primary activity. Unlike political committees, tax-exempt social welfare groups don’t have to disclose donors. Forms notifying the IRS of a group's intent to operate as a 501(c)(4) aren't public records, according to an IRS spokesman.

Samuel Brunson, a tax law professor at Loyola University in Chicago, said the IRS bars 501(c)(4) groups from spending money for the benefit of private individuals. Doing that could jeopardize its tax-exempt status, he added.

“In general, the IRS doesn’t police it very closely,” Brunson said.

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  On 5/11/2021 at 2:19 AM, Gil Bang said:
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It appears to be a request for records. There is nothing abnormal about it. Essentially they comply/are deposed by responding to some standard prove up questions and providing the records requested. They’re not going to show up to be questioned under oath.
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Hey, an actual voter fraud case!

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A Colorado man who was recently charged with murder in the disappearance of his wife a year ago has also been charged with voter fraud for voting for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election using his wife's mail-in ballot, according to an affidavit.

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https://www.cbs58.com/news/husband-charged-with-murder-of-missing-wife-in-colorado-is-also-charged-with-voter-fraud-for-filling-out-her-ballot

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So there’s been several charges of people using mail in ballots to vote for dead relatives or non-voting cohabitants. . But each of them I’ve seen has been cast for trump. Is there a place that is tracking this behavior so that one could get a sense of the scale of it and also the ratios?  

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  On 5/15/2021 at 1:20 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

So there’s been several charges of people using mail in ballots to vote for dead relatives or non-voting cohabitants. . But each of them I’ve seen has been cast for trump. Is there a place that is tracking this behavior so that one could get a sense of the scale of it and also the ratios?  

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Yeah. THE FAKE NEWS!!

The people who need to hear it won’t believe it. They determine their “truth” not by facts and evidence, statistics and probabilities, but by what feels true. What they want to believe. They can’t be reached. They will always insist that voter fraud is an actual problem (and only committed by Democrats). And they keep themselves carefully shielded from anything but their own “alternative facts.”

It’s so sad. Just prove it. Show me the evidence. But to them the lack of evidence is evidence. All I can say to them is that I know I’m not going to change their mind but they’re not going to go to their grave saying no one ever told them and I’m not going to mine saying I didn’t try.

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