gonna live tweet this.
Mark Meadows explains at the beginning that Cleta is not attorney of record but she's been involved.
FOLKS: Full audio published here. Please retweet far and wide. https://t.co/QqIsaNw5pA
— Amy Gardner (@AmyEGardner) January 3, 2021
Maybe ... they had already voted? I think he just narced out a bunch of people trying to double vote.
He doesn't actually understand that poll watchers are optional.
Also describing slo-mo tape showing 18,000 votes all for Biden.
He's sure just the Dominion machines are being altered, tho.
Then starts talking about Detroit.
cc: @dananessel
Because after losing 60 times, they're beginning to cop on.
We don't have to go through each [issue]. What's the difference between winning by 2 votes and winning by 2 million votes?
"We have won this election in Georgia."
BR: The challenge you have is that the data is wrong.
Trump interrupts. "In one state we have a tremendous number of dead people. I'm sure we do in GA too."
Said the video was reviewed by "police and other professional people."
BR: Mr. President, we did an audit of that and proved conclusively they were not scanned three times.
BR: WE'll send you the link from [the TV station]
Ryan German: We had our officers, GBI, as well as FBI agents.
Trump: Dishonesty or incompetence.
Trump: How many people do that? They missed it? [laughs]
Trump of course was arguably ineligible to vote in FL.
Trump: Cleta, a lot of it we don't need. They should share it. We don't need it .
They're laughing at you Brad, behind your back. You made it almost impossible for Republicans to win. I don't care how long it takes me. This is never giving, we have some incredible talent. THey need more time for big numbers
Transcript here: https://t.co/nrWKBYsttG
— Craig Kaplan (@TriggerLoop) January 3, 2021
BR: THey're provided by state law.
Trump: Most are made out to Trump. When they came in they were told, I'm sorry, you've already voted.
As GA tries to figure out WTF, Cleta interrupts.
Trump: I'm not asking you Cleta, honestly.
More from Dr. emptywheel
Since everyone is writing abt Julian Assange today, some posts:
The Growing WikiLeaks Conspiracy [Indictment]
https://t.co/i3dNE6lnl7
This talks about the superseding CFAA charge that Assange boosters are generally silent or worse about.
Three Inconvenient Truths about a Hypothetical Trump Pardon for Julian Assange
https://t.co/FDl2KMJV8x
1) It may not work
2) It would have to pardon other crimes
3) That would include Trump's own corruption
Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Getting the "Highest Level of Government" to Free Julian Assange
https://t.co/oNr8YgXbhk
On the pardon discussions with Trump that WikiLeaks doesn't want you to know about.
The Minh Quang Pham Precedent to the Julian Assange Extradition
https://t.co/1i7yErl0sC
The UK extradited a guy whose primary crime (at the time) was doing graphic design for AQAP.
Julian Assange's First Witness, Journalism Professor Mark Feldstein, Professes to Be Unfamiliar with the Public Record on Assange
https://t.co/sl0sasWgeu
WikiLeaks boosters are lying, cynically, abt what changed between 2013 and 2017.
The Growing WikiLeaks Conspiracy [Indictment]
https://t.co/i3dNE6lnl7
This talks about the superseding CFAA charge that Assange boosters are generally silent or worse about.
Three Inconvenient Truths about a Hypothetical Trump Pardon for Julian Assange
https://t.co/FDl2KMJV8x
1) It may not work
2) It would have to pardon other crimes
3) That would include Trump's own corruption
Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Getting the "Highest Level of Government" to Free Julian Assange
https://t.co/oNr8YgXbhk
On the pardon discussions with Trump that WikiLeaks doesn't want you to know about.
The Minh Quang Pham Precedent to the Julian Assange Extradition
https://t.co/1i7yErl0sC
The UK extradited a guy whose primary crime (at the time) was doing graphic design for AQAP.
Julian Assange's First Witness, Journalism Professor Mark Feldstein, Professes to Be Unfamiliar with the Public Record on Assange
https://t.co/sl0sasWgeu
WikiLeaks boosters are lying, cynically, abt what changed between 2013 and 2017.
Breaking: Not only does John Solomon continue to include more and more false claims in his propaganda, but after 4 years of "reporting" on FISA he still doesn't know what FBI Director signs to on FISA.
In reality, this is what John Solomon's "SMOKING GUN" says:
Steele was considered reliable (true!), his sources were in a position to report on what they reported on (true!), the reporting corroborated stuff in the report [that, btw, is mostly classified]
This paragraph, for example, includes 3 lies and one exaggeration: First, CIA informed FBI that until 2011, they asked Page questions about the RU intelligence officers trying to recruit him.
That does NOT cover the most alarming thing he did in 2015 or one RU intelligence officer that Page did not tell the CIA about while still an approved contact.
USG had gotten opinions about Steele that weren't entirely favorable (but unsurprising for operations officer), but this is before questions abt source network.
Smoking gun: Comey told Clapper FBI unable to \u2018sufficiently corroborate\u2019 Steele \u2014 then signed FISA, newly declassified memo shows. | Just The News https://t.co/agpMxMLORL
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) February 15, 2021
In reality, this is what John Solomon's "SMOKING GUN" says:
Steele was considered reliable (true!), his sources were in a position to report on what they reported on (true!), the reporting corroborated stuff in the report [that, btw, is mostly classified]

This paragraph, for example, includes 3 lies and one exaggeration: First, CIA informed FBI that until 2011, they asked Page questions about the RU intelligence officers trying to recruit him.

That does NOT cover the most alarming thing he did in 2015 or one RU intelligence officer that Page did not tell the CIA about while still an approved contact.
USG had gotten opinions about Steele that weren't entirely favorable (but unsurprising for operations officer), but this is before questions abt source network.

More from Government
This is a good piece on fissures within the GOP but I think it mischaracterizes the Trump presidency as “populist” & repeats a story about how conservatives & the GOP expelled the far-right in the mid-1960s that is actually far more complicated. /1
I don’t think the sharp opposition between “hard-edge populism” & “conservative orthodoxy” holds. Many of the Trump administration’s achievements were boilerplate conservatism. Its own website trumpets things like “massive deregulation,” tax cuts, etc. /2
https://t.co/N97v85Bb79
The claim that Buckley and “key GOP politicians banded together to marginalize anti-Communist extremism and conspiracy-mongering” of the JBS has been widely repeated lately but the history is more complicated. /3
This tweet by @ThePlumLineGS citing a paper by @sam_rosenfeld and @daschloz on the "porous" boundary between conservatives, the GOP and the far-right is relevant in this context.
This is a separate point but I find it interesting that Gaetz, like Roy Moore did In his failed Senate campaign, disses McConnell. What are their actual policy differences? MM supported taking health care away from millions, a tax cut for the rich, conservative judges, etc. /5
I don’t think the sharp opposition between “hard-edge populism” & “conservative orthodoxy” holds. Many of the Trump administration’s achievements were boilerplate conservatism. Its own website trumpets things like “massive deregulation,” tax cuts, etc. /2
https://t.co/N97v85Bb79

The claim that Buckley and “key GOP politicians banded together to marginalize anti-Communist extremism and conspiracy-mongering” of the JBS has been widely repeated lately but the history is more complicated. /3

This tweet by @ThePlumLineGS citing a paper by @sam_rosenfeld and @daschloz on the "porous" boundary between conservatives, the GOP and the far-right is relevant in this context.
There's a great paper called "The Long New Right" that tells the story of the GOP/conservative movement's failure to police extremists for the last 50 years.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 28, 2021
It's highly relevant to the insurrection and Marjorie Greene's lunacy.
I summed it up here:https://t.co/DTlzGomy5h pic.twitter.com/Dhc38CDuE2
This is a separate point but I find it interesting that Gaetz, like Roy Moore did In his failed Senate campaign, disses McConnell. What are their actual policy differences? MM supported taking health care away from millions, a tax cut for the rich, conservative judges, etc. /5
