Pre-Election 2024 Notes
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4CrQfAlieE
-“The Army of Election Officials Ready To Reject The Vote,” New York Times magazine, Oct. 26, 2024.
– CNN Politics, “House Freedom Caucus chair suggests North Carolina Legislature could assign electors before votes are tallied,” by Curt Devine, Lauren Fox, and Emily R. Condon
October 25, 2024
– The New York Times, “Trump Hints at ‘Little Secret’ With House Republicans, Setting Off a Panic,” by Annie Karni, Oct. 28, 2024.
– POLITICO, “The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway,” by KYLE CHENEY, HEIDI PRZYBYLA, JOHN SAKELLARIADIS and LISA KASHINSKY
10/20/2024. Republican legislative leaders in the states did not respond to requests for comment about whether they’ve had any contact with Trump, his lawyers, the RNC or state parties about these scenarios.
– CNN Politics, “House GOP committee that oversees elections hired two former Trump officials involved in 2020 fake elector scheme,’ by Annie Grayer, CNN, October 24, 2024.
And sometimes the objective is just chaos, anger and upset, at the prospect that Democrats have given the Republicans too much credit for being ethical with election integrity tactics. Chaos—someone dropping fires into ballot boxes in liberal Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington, something the right is giddy about yet insinuating is the work of Democrats or Antifa.
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKvVLDcgnw&list=PLDIVi-vBsOEyETRGoRP9y8zhyu6bHl6iK
-Russians interfering again on behalf of their boy in Washington, Donald Trump. Hacked into Hillary’s emails to create faux scandal in fog of war tactic to help Trump.
-In 2020, Mother Jones, “Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Worked With an “Active Russian Agent” to Discredit Joe Biden,” DAN FRIEDMAN, SEPTEMBER 10, 2020.
-In 2024, Russian interference again. “Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia,” by Will Sommer, September 5, 2024. 10 million dollar fund to pay American social media content makers to make fake stories for them.
– The Washington Post, “Russians made Video falsely accusing Harris of hit-and-run,” by Joseph Menn, Sep.17, 2024.
– WIRED, “Russian Propaganda Unit Appears to Be Behind Spread of False Tim Walz Sexual Abuse Claims,” by David Gilbert, Oct 21, 2024.
– BANGOR DAILY NEWS, “Former Maine cop is making Kamala Harris and Tim Walz disinformation in Russia,’ by Christopher Burns October 24, 2024.
–USA TODAY, “US intelligence says Russia is behind video of ballots being destroyed in Pennsylvania,’ by Josh Meyer, Oct. 26, 2024.
“All designed to help Trump., hurt Harris, and make us not believe in our democracy.”
In 2016, it was Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman who was a direct conduit to Russian intelligence to deliver to them government voter data bases to help them micro-target certain constituencies to send disinformation to them according to their proclivities. In 2020, it was Trump’s personal lawyer, Giuliani, who was in direct contact with Russian intelligence to coordinate smears on Joe Biden. In 2024, it’s Trump himself, with regular phone calls to Putin directly, uh, colluding with him to throw this election. NBC NEWS, “Trump and Putin have talked as many as 7 times since 2021, new book [Bob Woodward’s] claims,” by Katherine Doyle
Oct. 8, 2024.
–The Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations with Vladimir Putin,” Oct. 24, 2024. Also been talking to Sergei Kiriyenko, Putin’s first deputy chief of staff.
–THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, “The Putin Propaganda Chief Who the U.S. Says Is Now After American Minds,” by Ann M. Simmons and Thomas Grove, Sept. 6, 2024.
(Sergei Kiriyenko).