POL November 3: The 2020 U.S. ELECTION DAY MAIN THREAD

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You may have read the stories about Andrew Cuomo and the nursing homes -- apparently far more people died than the state admitted.

(Chris Cillizza at CNN ran this almost hilariously understated headline: "Andrew Cuomo's Covid-19 performance may have been less stellar than it seemed.")

In the wake of that revelation, a troll account on Twitter posted this:

“If you see anybody from the Cuomo Administration in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.”


If you're sharp, you'll remember that these are exactly the same words uttered three years ago by Rep. Maxine Waters, except about Trump rather than Cuomo.

Those words were met with yawns back then.

But when those very words are used to refer to the Cuomo administration, well, that's just not acceptable!

Carl Heastie, speaker of the New York Assembly, responded: "This is appalling and dangerous. Encouraging violence must never be tolerated. Shame on whoever is behind this kind of garbage."

Other New York assemblymen got snookered by it as well. Thus Kenny Burgos: "We need to stop this behavior towards elected officials and especially their staff. The seige of the Capitol empowered behavior like this and must be stopped at any moment it creeps its head out in any fashion."

Same with Ken Zebrowski, who wrote, "This is dangerous, reprehensible and has no place in any public discussion. Oh, and spare me the 'someone else did it too' excuse. Someone else saying a variation of this doesn’t change the fact that this is seeking to incite violence against a public official and their staff."

Then Jeffrey Dinowitz: "What's wrong with you? Threatening violence against duly elected representatives of the people of New York is fascism. The hatred unleashed by Trump and his gang of thugs continues to reverberate throughout the country. Enough is enough."

Then Jenifer Rajkumar: "This kind of incitement to violence against government leaders must stop. Especially after the recent seige at the U.S. Capitol, we must condemn these types of threats. They endanger our democracy. This is not who we are and we can do better."

These Tweets are all still up. These geniuses still don't realize they've been tricked into condemning Maxine Waters."
 

Dobbin

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These Tweets are all still up. These geniuses still don't realize they've been tricked into condemning Maxine Waters."
It takes insight and reading comprehension to realize the trick.

They will claim "the situation" justified Maxine's lambasting Trump and his supporters - which they don't realize that Maxine's umbrage was as deeply felt by her as today's Conservative's feel theirs, if not today more so - and unlike today's Conservative Maxine doesn't have to endure/survive an illegitimate Administration, which by itself justifies this Conservative Response.

As in - "the situation" NOW does justify "in your face."

Maxine's birthright was NEVER marginalized under Trump. Today's Conservative birthright IS.

A human birthright, I might add.

Dobbin
 

marsh

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“Getting Stronger”- Liberal Reporter Gets Wake Up Call On Trump Support

By ProTrumpNews Staff
Published January 30, 2021 at 11:05am
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One left-wing reporter is finally learning the truth.

Politico reporter Tara Palmeri traveled to Wyoming to find out who supported Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) vote to impeach President Trump.

What she found was no one supported Rep. Cheney.

They all supported President Trump.


Fox News reported:
Former President Donald Trump has actually gained — not lost — political clout since leaving office, a political observer asserted Friday.
Politico reporter Tara Palmeri’s observation runs contrary to the assumptions of many in the Washington D.C. establishment and the mainstream media.

“People don’t want to hear anything against Trump,” Palmeri said during an appearance on MSNBC. “Actually, the more he stays out of the media, the more that he becomes this martyr, this looming figure over the GOP.”
She followed up by saying that his base was getting “stronger”:
In Wyoming, she added, “A lot of people said they aren’t really Republicans, that, like, they’re for Trump. That’s it … I think the base is getting stronger, truly. I think an impeachment would make him even more powerful — a conviction, is what I mean.”
Watch the video here:
View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1355306561187557383
1:18 min
“They see themselves now on a crusade for Donald Trump… What I heard overwhelmingly from the people that were against [Liz Cheney], she did not vote for Wyoming when she voted to impeach, and therefore she has to go” – @tarapalmeri w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/0BXuYsHYBn
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) January 30, 2021
Republican voters want a party that fights for them and the country.
Not one that surrenders the country to the left.
 

marsh

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President Trump Calls Embattled Republican Lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene

By Jim Hoft
Published January 30, 2021 at 12:33pm
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a statement on Friday addressing the mob of Democrats and liberal reporter henchmen that are trying to “take her out” with a massive smear campaign.

The statement comes shortly after Marxist Democrat lawmaker Cori Bush tried to claim that Greene had harassed her in the halls — which Greene promptly shut down with a video of the incident.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is under siege by the left due to her support for President Trump and her move to impeach failed President Joe Biden.

Rep. Greene on Friday released a statement telling supporters and detractors that since the left launched their smear campaign attacks against her, “Nearly 60,000 America First Patriots from all 50 states have reached out with messages of support and have poured over $1.6 million in small donations into my campaign account.”

On Saturday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Twitter that President Trump gave her a call.
I had a GREAT call with my all time favorite POTUS, President Trump!
I’m so grateful for his support and more importantly the people of this country are absolutely 100% loyal to him because he is 100% loyal to the people and America First.
Cont’d…
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) January 30, 2021
 

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The Curious Career Path Of GA’s Dominion Overseer And Trump-Hater Gabe Sterling

by CD Media StaffJanuary 30, 202102498
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CDMedia will be publishing a series of articles delving into the massive election fraud that occurred in the state of Georgia during the 2020 general election last November 3rd.

The first in the series highlights Georgia’s overseer of Dominion Voting Systems, equipment installed in the state at massive cost prior to last year’s general poll.

Public reports state that Republican Gabe Sterling left his job on the payroll of GA’s Secretary of State’s office in 2019 to work for a year as a ‘contractor’ until the recent election was over.

Under the arrangement, Sterling’s pay increased from his $114,000 government salary since November 2019, when he took on the role of project manager for the purchase and rollout of the state’s new voting equipment, wrote the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.

But his independent status prompted questions from state legislators and critics who have asked why oversight of the state’s voting machines is being managed outside Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s payroll.

Sterling’s contract, obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through the Georgia Open Records Act, expires Thursday after the state’s voting equipment has been used in several elections this year. Sterling will then return to the secretary of state’s office, resuming his previous role as chief operating officer.


This arrangement is curious to say the least.

The simple question is — why?

Deputy Secretary of State (an office created prior to the election and never before existed) Jordan Fuchs said it was for operational reasons — to fill the need for a ‘quick installation’ of voting equipment and adding paper ballots.

The secretary of state’s office awarded the contract to Sterling under an emergency procurement without a competitive bidding process, said Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs. The government needed someone to manage the quick installation of voting equipment in time for this year’s elections, adding a paper ballot to Georgia elections for the first time in 18 years, she said, wrote AJC.

This doesn’t pass the smell test.

Perhaps the real reason is that Raffensperger’s office wanted to enable Sterling to operate independent of public oversight during the installation of Dominion equipment and the fraud committed by the mail-in ballot orgy of fake votes?

With a presidential election on the line in 2020, Georgia is switching to a new voting company, Dominion Voting Systems, that state evaluators ranked second-best and that critics said will leave elections vulnerable, wrote the AJC in November of 2019.

The Georgia state government is still preventing a full signature audit with GOP effective monitors and an audit of Dominion voting machines.

Again, if they have nothing to hide, the question is why?
 

marsh

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Utah man charged in Capitol riot reportedly violated terms of release

by McKenzie Stauffer, KUTV
Friday, January 29th 2021

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KUTV — A Utah man facing charges for his involvement in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 allegedly violated the terms of his release.

A probation officer filed a report Wednesday claiming 25-year-old John Sullivan violated his release conditions by failing to comply with internet restrictions on four separate occasions.

After the deadly siege on the Capitol, Sullivan told 2News that he entered the building through a broken window to document the event. Federal prosecutors, however, claim Sullivan's videos show him saying, "This [expletive] is ours" and "Let’s burn this [expletive] down."

Sullivan also filmed and shared a video showing the shooting of Ashli Babbit, who was among the first rioters to enter the Capitol and was killed by a Capitol Police officer.

Sullivan was charged by the U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C. with knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority, violent entry or disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and interfering with law enforcement.

On Jan. 15, Sullivan appeared in court before Magistrate Judge Daphne A. Oberg, who ordered his release from jail with the following conditions:
  • Maintain or actively seek verifiable full-time employment as approved by the pretrial officer
  • Abide by restrictions on place of living and travel
  • Maintain residence and do not change without permission
  • Not to travel outside the state of Utah without permission
  • Not to travel outside the U.S. without approval
  • Not associate with the victim, witness, or co-defendant in the case
  • Report to the pre-trial officer
  • Prohibited from possessing any weapons
  • Undergo a mental health evaluation
  • Have a GPS monitor
  • Detained at home, restricted to home except for employment, religious service, medical treatment, and other court-approved activities
  • Extensive monitoring of his social media and online activity
Prosecutors asked that he be held in jail until his trial, claiming he uses social media to incite riots and "thrives on chaos."

Oberg ordered Sullivan be detained at his home until his trial in Washington D.C.
Individuals charged in complaints are presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in court.
 

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New Report Finds Hundreds of Twitter Accounts Linked to China Sowed Discord Before and After Election

By Jim Hoft
Published January 30, 2021 at 4:25pm
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Via Sovereign Insurgent
Earlier this month the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe issued a report stating China interfered in the 2020 election while CIA management pressured lower level analysts to discount this assessment.

It is clear that China and other countries interfered in the 2020 election. The Gateway Pundit has published numerous reports showing China’s intervention in the election:

Now this…

A new report by Crime and Security found that hundreds of Twitter accounts linked to the Chinese regime sowed discord in the United States before and then after the 2020 US election.

Crime and Security Org reported:
A sophisticated China-linked social media operation played a key role in spreading disinformation during and after the US election, a report from Cardiff University concludes.
The study, from the Crime and Security Research Institute, shows evidence of the network’s activities reaching a wide audience, most successfully through a now debunked viral video that was later shared by Eric Trump, son of former US President Donald Trump, falsely showing ballots being burned on election day.
Researchers also found evidence of the same network spreading anti-US propaganda which amplified calls for violence before and after the Capitol riot in Washington on 6 January 2021.
Professor Martin Innes, Director of the Crime and Security Research Institute, who leads the Open Source Communications, Analytics Research (OSCAR) research team said: “Although only Twitter can fully certify an attribution, our analysis using open-source traces strongly suggests multiple links to China. Our initial findings suggested that the operation was not especially complex, but as we have dug deeper into the network, we have had to substantially revise our original view. The behaviour of the accounts was sophisticated and disciplined, and seemingly designed to avoid detection by Twitter’s counter-measures.
There is at least one example of these accounts helping to propagate disinformation that went on to receive more than a million views.”
 

marsh

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Dr. John Eastman Fired from Chapman University After Speaking with Rudy Giuliani on Jan. 6 in DC — Former Students Speak Out in His Defense –UPDATE

By Jim Hoft
Published January 30, 2021 at 5:05pm

On January 6th, Dr. John Eastman went on with Rudy Giuliani and spoke to over half a million patriots in Washington DC at the ‘Stop the Steal Rally.’
This was before President Trump spoke to the crowd.


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And it was hours before radicals stormed the US Capitol over a mile away.
The crowd of several hundred thousand cheered Dr. Eastman and his remarks on election fraud.

Dr Eastman shared the following:
…The old way was to have a bunch of ballots sitting on a box on the floor and when you needed more you pulled them out in the dark of night. They put those ballots in a secret folder in the machines, sitting there waiting until they know how many they needed… “
Dr. Eastman went on to share that the machine then matches the un-voted ballots with the un-voted voter and put them together in the machine. Eastman concludes:
We saw it happen in real time last night and it happened on November 3rd as well.”
WE CAUGHT THEM Election fraud captured live in last night’s Senate election in Georgia pic.twitter.com/YWQL8hDsd8
— Catherine (@catherinedbay) January 6, 2021
We reported that the election fraud was massive in the November 2020 election and we reported it was done in the machines:


After the riots at the US Capitol Dr. John Eastman was fired from his position as law professor at Chapman University.

According to a group of current and former law students Dr. Eastman was wrongly smeared and attacked for allegedly inciting violence at the US Capitol hours later.

Several acquaintances of Dr. Eastman are now speaking out defending their friend against the salacious accusations.
172 members of the Chapman Faculty , including administrators and Trustees, found out that the esteemed Chapman Law professor, Dr. John C. Eastman, spoke at the event on January 6 and supported President Trump’s calls for investigations into fraudulent handling of the Presidential Election. As a result, they issued this letter, which was published by the LA Times. ( Chapman faculty speak out - Jan 6 incitement ). Not happy with merely defaming Dr. Eastman, they began a pressure campaign to force Chapman University President Daniele Struppa to fire Eastman. Struppa issued multiple statements that maligned and defamed Dr. Eastman, and eventually forced him into retirement.

Myself and a group of current and former Chapman Law students have formed a coalition to defend Dr. Eastman’s legacy, and some of us have written a “rebuttal” to the 172 Chapman Faculty’s letter that sets the record straight. I would love to provide you with a copy of that as an Op-Ed submission. Or, in the alternative, I would love to provide you with all the information you might need in order to expose this travesty for what it is; a professional death sentence for the “crime” of supporting the Constitution.
There is now a group of Eastman defenders hoping to vindicate his service and his legacy.

Today they asked The Gateway Pundit to inform conservatives of the latest example of the vicious oppression in our society today that demands their attention.


UPDATE— Here is the rebuttal to the Chapman Faculty–

A Rebuttal to “Chapman Faculty”:
Why the “Eastman Controversy” is Far From Over.


By: Kyle W. Richardson, J.D.
It saddens me to have to write this letter in response to the false and malicious statements made against Dr. John C. Eastman by 172 individuals from the formerly prestigious Chapman University, and the subsequent assent to those statements made by its president, Daniele Struppa.

Since, most readers might believe the matter closed, it is incumbent upon me to assure your readers that the matter is far from resolved. In fact, things are about to get “spicy.”

Dr. Eastman was my Constitutional Law professor. His accomplishments are far too numerous to list here. He was a kind, respectful, and passionate professor who engaged every single student with unwavering commitment to their success in his class, and at the Law School in general. Because of his unflappable demeanor and good-nature, he demanded the utmost civility in his classroom.

Dr. Eastman was so kind and likable, in fact, that a very liberal professor of mine—who I shall refer to as “Professor King”—said recently, “Eastman was a friendly and pleasant faculty colleague. I disagreed with virtually everything he said […] But I liked him.”

How, then, could such an immensely affable man of such accomplishment be characterized as someone who “helped incite a riot”? You lie about him. Worse yet, how do you force the former Dean of Chapman Law to resign from his beloved school? You get a bunch of pathetic and unaccomplished liars to sign on to your lie. That is precisely what happened to Dr. Eastman.

The January 9, 2021, “Letter to the Editor” was written by those who have no grasp on reality, much less the law. This is made obvious by the fact that not a single professor from Chapman Law signed the frothing hit-piece. In fact, the worst thing done by anyone at Chapman Law was Dean Matthew Parlow’s cowardly lack of vociferous support for one of Chapman’s luminaries.

Here are the facts:

Dr. Eastman did not “lie” about “secret folders.” Being an accomplished lawyer, he knows not to make allegations without having evidentiary support. He made this statement with documentary and/or expert evidence.

There was no “angry crowd” which Dr. Eastman tried to “fire up.” Attendee of Dr. Eastman’s speech, Leia Montgomery, has video evidence that while the crowd watching Dr. Eastman cheered and such, they were entirely peaceful, friendly, and law-abiding.

“[C]onspiratorial claims of a stolen election were the basis of the insurrection…” There is absolutely zero evidence for this allegation! Moreover, it is a prima facie example of what we in legal business call “libel.” The imbeciles making this argument confuse proximity with causation; just because Dr. Eastman was in D.C. and spoke that day does not prove—in any way—that his speech was a cause of any lawlessness.

The claims regarding any “conspiracy of a stolen election” are not mere conspiracies. They are allegations, supported by admissible evidence, of wrongdoing in an election. These allegations are believed by 75% of registered Republicans, and a host of Republican lawmakers, lawyers, and government officials. These simpletons seem to think that because they don’t believe election fraud took place, that it didn’t.

Just because you disagree with someone, doesn’t mean they’re wrong. Just because you don’t like what someone says, doesn’t mean you get to shut them up. And when you disagree with someone’s activities, you do not have the right to force that person out of their profession/position.

Yet that is what happened. The “angry mob” at Chapman forced Dr. Eastman to retire. It is Chapman’s loss, as Dr. Eastman was responsible for much of the esteemed reputation of the law school he helped build. It is abhorrent that president Struppa and Dean Parlow sat by and refused to defend Dr. Eastman against an onslaught of lies. I am profoundly ashamed of them both.

As “Professor King” said, “We have to be able to do this—to accept as friends, colleagues and citizens, those we disagree with—if we have any hope for the future of this great nation.”

We will miss you Dr. Eastman, and we have only just begun our fight to defend your legacy.
 

Dobbin

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Prosecutors asked that he be held in jail until his trial, claiming he uses social media to incite riots and "thrives on chaos."

Oberg ordered Sullivan be detained at his home until his trial in Washington D.C.
Individuals charged in complaints are presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in court.
You can be sure Mr. Sullivan will use his time at home in self-education by reading a book and writing letters. He may even chat with friends.

NOT.

Daphne A. Oberg is a new judge (May 2020) having served before in the Public Defenders office. Her newness is apparent in underestimating the honesty of her defendants.

Dobbin
 

marsh

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You can be sure Mr. Sullivan will use his time at home in self-education by reading a book and writing letters. He may even chat with friends.

NOT.

Daphne A. Oberg is a new judge (May 2020) having served before in the Public Defenders office. Her newness is apparent in underestimating the honesty of her defendants.

Dobbin
When you are the founder of a group called "Insurgence USA," it should be a big hint that your passion is in inciting armed riots.
 

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BREAKING: Trump’s Impeachment Defense Team Collapses Ahead Of Senate Trial, Top Lawyers Out

By Ryan Saavedra
Jan 30, 2021 DailyWire.com

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses while speaking during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. Trump is set to announce the government will send millions of rapid-result Covid-19 tests to states, and urge that they be used in schools.
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Former President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team has collapsed just days of ahead of his Senate impeachment trail, according to multiple news reports.

Multiple reports indicated that Butch Bowers, a South Carolina lawyer who assembled the impeachment defense team, and Deborah Barbier, a criminal defense lawyer in South Carolina, were no longer going to be part of Trump’s team and that the decision was “mutual.” Josh Howard, a North Carolina attorney, has also reportedly left Trump’s team, and South Carolina lawyers Johnny Gasser and Greg Harris are also reportedly out.

“The Democrats’ efforts to impeach a president who has already left office is totally unconstitutional and so bad for our country,” Jason Miller, an adviser to the former president, told The Daily Wire. “In fact, 45 Senators have already voted that it is unconstitutional. We have done much work, but have not made a final decision on our legal team, which will be made shortly.”

Republican strategist and Mitch McConnell ally Janet Mullins Grissom commented on the situation, writing: “If you’re Trump this is rather a no brainer.

With Senate Rs aka the jury on record that impeaching former president is unconstitutional why spend money on lawyers?”
If you’re Trump this is rather a no brainer. With Senate Rs aka the jury on record that impeaching former president is unconstitutional why spend money on lawyers ? https://t.co/VSgLRBoAPg
— Janet Mullins Grissom (@JMullinsGrissom) January 31, 2021
CNN, The New York Times, and the Associated Press noted that the team fell apart after Trump wanted them to focus on claims that the election was stolen from through election fraud—a claim that former Attorney General William Barr, a favorite in Trump world, had completely dismissed as false. The lawyers reportedly said no and that was when the parties decided to part ways.

Barr, who authorized federal prosecutors to pursue every legitimate claim of election fraud immediately after the election, later said that prosecutors had “not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

Barr was confronted by Trump in early December about his comments that the election was not stolen.

Axios reports:
“These things aren’t panning out,” Barr told the president, standing beside his chief of staff Will Levi. “The stuff that these people are filling your ear with just isn’t true.” Barr explained that if Trump wanted to contest the election results, the president’s internal campaign lawyers would have to do it.
The Justice Department, he continued, had looked at the major fraud allegations that Trump’s lawyers had leveled. “It’s just bullshit,” Barr told the president. [White House counsel Pat] Cipollone backed up Barr by saying the DOJ was investigating these claims.
The report indicated that Cipollone and others in the room were stunned that Barr came out and said it in such a blunt manner, even though they agreed. Barr reportedly warned Trump that his legal team was “clownish.”

“I’m a pretty informed legal observer and I can’t f***ing figure out what the theory is here,” Barr reportedly said in reference to the claims that Trump’s legal team were making. “It’s just scattershot. It’s all over the hill and gone.”

“Maybe,” Trump said, according to Axios. “Maybe.”

This report has been updated to include additional information.
 

Dobbin

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Multiple reports indicated that Butch Bowers, a South Carolina lawyer who assembled the impeachment defense team, and Deborah Barbier, a criminal defense lawyer in South Carolina, were no longer going to be part of Trump’s team and that the decision was “mutual.” Josh Howard, a North Carolina attorney, has also reportedly left Trump’s team, and South Carolina lawyers Johnny Gasser and Greg Harris are also reportedly out.
Bad optics ARE bad for the legal bottom line - especially in a venue (Congress) which focuses more on optics than truth.

I suspect here optics translates into "future case$"

Dobbin
 

marsh

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Note to Arizona Senate from a Former International Audit Executive: If Audit Resources are Limited – FOCUS ON THE BALLOTS

By Joe Hoft
Published January 30, 2021 at 9:38pm
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Focus on the ballots!

It was reported yesterday that the Arizona Senate has requested an audit of the Maricopa County 2020 election results and will select the auditor themselves.

You can’t blame them. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS), who oversee the election process in the county, is doing all they can to prevent a valid audit from being performed in the county.

A month ago the Arizona Senate voted to have the audit performed and the MCBOS sued them to stop the audit. Then once the inauguration occurred the MCBOS agreed to have their results audited but they would select the auditors.

This was so the MCBOS could choose an auditor who would rubber stamp their results. The MCBOS even stated they would only use EAC certified auditors which limited the population of auditors to the two firms of their liking but then we pointed out that these firms weren’t currently certified.

So yesterday the Arizona Senate decided to stop playing games and they decided they would choose the auditor to dig into Maricopa County results themselves.

The Senate is doing the right thing. We knew the results of the 2020 election were fraudulent early on. We studied the results and performed our own analytics, and even at a high level we were able to prove the election was stolen by Joe Biden:




Tonight we want to provide some words of advice to the Arizona Senate.

I was an international audit executive in Hong Kong for a decade. I looked at thousands of data sets and performed audits of the accuracy of the data in relation to the underlying contract. After doing this for years I learned one key thing:

The best way to determine if a system is performing accurate calculations and creating accurate results is to look at the output from the system and identify results which are not legitimate.

MCBOS is doing neither. They are bringing in a couple of very small firms who will look at the machines and describe their characteristics and then sample a couple operations and state that the machines are doing what they are intended to do. We know this because the reports from their work are available online.

The Arizona Senate wants something more. They would like to have a forensic audit of the machines and also then review the results of the election by looking into the end results – the ballots.

If resources are a challenge then the Arizona Senate should select the review of the ballots. Based on my experience looking at huge data sets with millions of records and looking into systems as well, if you want to identify fraudulent activities or activities that don’t comply with the law, then focus on the ballots.

One individual who we became aware of since the election is Jovan Pulitzer. He claims he can review tens of thousands of ballots in a few hours. He also is an expert in paper ballots and machine interactions. If resources such as time and money are a challenge then Pulitzer should be hired to do the job. Pulitzer was invited to perform work by the Georgia Senate as well:

View: https://youtu.be/rrxfzoZRyao
47:44 min

Unlike the auditors hired to rubber stamp the results like those hired by the MCBOS, Pulitzer could perform a real audit. We already know there was fraud across the country. Now its time to determine accurately, how much fraud took place.

Arizona can save the nation if they make the right choices now. Americans deserve to know the truth.
 

marsh

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Maricopa County Preventing Valid Audit of 2020 Election Results and Now Media Claims State Law Prevents the County from Handing Over Ballots to an Auditor

By Joe Hoft
Published January 31, 2021 at 7:10am
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The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has balked and manipulated information and the media to prevent a valid audit of the county’s 2020 election results. Now the local media outlet ABC15 is assisting them by claiming it is against state law for the county to provide ballots to auditors to review.

It was reported yesterday that the Arizona Senate has requested an audit of the Maricopa County 2020 election results and will select the auditor themselves.

You can’t blame them. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS), who oversee the election process in the county, is doing all they can to prevent a valid audit from being performed in the county.

A month ago the Arizona Senate voted to have the audit performed and the MCBOS sued them to stop the audit. Then once the inauguration occurred the MCBOS agreed to have their results audited but they would select the auditors.

This was so the MCBOS could choose an auditor who would rubber stamp their results. The MCBOS even stated they would only use EAC certified auditors which limited the population of auditors to the two firms of their liking but then we pointed out that these firms weren’t currently certified.

So yesterday the Arizona Senate decided to stop playing games and they decided they would choose the auditor to dig into Maricopa County results themselves.


Now the local Phoenix News outlet, ABC15, is reporting that it’s actually illegal to hand over any actual ballots to an auditor. The last words in this piece are as follows:
As for that audit, what actually comes from it – likely not much, but it is important to know that state law actually prevents the county from handing over any actual ballots.”
If the Board of Supervisors in Maricopa County wanted to get to the truth about the 2020 election results in the county they would be transparent.

They wouldn’t sue the Arizona Senate for requesting an audit, or agree to an audit but only from their preferred auditors (who they claimed were certified but weren’t) or go to the media to say it is illegal to basically audit the ballots in the county, when it is not.

Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors and Big Media don’t want Americans to know the truth about the 2020 election – they show it every day.
 

SAR01

Social ButterFly

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a new legal defense team after he parted ways with five of his impeachment lawyers just over a week before his Senate trial is set to begin, Fox News has confirmed.
South Carolina lawyers Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier and former federal prosecutors Greg Harris, Johnny Gasser and Josh Howard had left the defense team by Saturday, a source said, calling it a mutual decision.
The source said the lawyers left over a difference of opinion on the direction of the defense's argument.
Another anonymous source told the Associated Press Bowers and Barbier left because Trump wanted them to make election fraud allegations during the trial.

Trump will now be represented by trial lawyers David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr.
The changes come with little time before the former president faces charges that he incited the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, leaving the exact members of his defense team and their approach up in the air at a crucial moment.
Trump was all but certain to be acquitted, however, because 45 out of 50 Republicans in the Senate voted earlier this month to dismiss the trial on a point of order brought forward by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

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Capitol riot arrests: See who's been charged across the U.S.

Rachel Axon, Dinah Pulver, Rachel Stassen-Berger, Jayme Fraser, Josh Salman, Nicholas Penzenstadler, Katie Wedell, Morgan Hines, David Baratz2:09 p.m., Jan. 31, 2021

Federal prosecutors continue to charge participants in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, adding to dozens of arrests that took place in Washington D.C. that day.

USA TODAY is gathering details of those cases as the FBI continues to identify the people responsible for the attack that left five people dead and sent lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence fleeing to shelter.

Included are those arrested on charges federal prosecutors have filed since the riot, and those arrested by Capitol Police and D.C. Metro Police for entering the Capitol or for crimes related to weapons or violence. Check back for updates.

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Troy E. Faulkner
  • Age: 39
  • Home state: Ohio
Charges

What happened

Faulkner wore his painting company's jacket to the Capitol riot. The words "Faulkner Painting" and the business phone number were clearly visible in videos, the FBI said, including one where Faulkner kicks in a window at the Capitol. Last summer, Faulkner's Facebook profile photo showed him wearing a Make America Great Again ball cap, and the photo was surrounded by a black frame that stated "White lives matter."
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Dawn Bancroft
Dawn Bancroft

  • Arrested or charged on: Jan. 28, 2021
  • Home state: Pennsylvania
Charges
Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; knowingly engaging in disorderly conduct in any restricted building or grounds; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds

What happened
Bancroft, owner of a Pennsylvania Cross Fit gym, recorded a video leaving the Capitol, and a tip about that video led the FBI to Bancroft and Diana Santos-Smith. According to court records, Bancroft says in the video, "We broke into the Capitol…we got inside, we did our part.” She continued, “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain but we didn’t find her," which the FBI believes is in reference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Both women admitted to the FBI that they entered the Capitol through a broken window and said they stayed inside for about a minute before exiting through the same window. Court records show Bancroft told the FBI she deleted video she took in the Capitol from her phone and told her children to delete the video she sent them.
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Diana Santos-Smith
Diana Santos-Smith

  • Arrested or charged on: Jan. 28, 2021
  • Home state: Pennsylvania
Charges
Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; knowingly engaging in disorderly conduct in any restricted building or grounds; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds

What happened
Santos-Smith initially denied entering the Capitol but admitted doing so after seeing the video shot by Dawn Bancroft, court records show. The FBI received a tip with the video taken as the two women were caught up in a bottleneck of people trying to leave the building. Both women admitted to entering through a broken window and said they stayed inside for about a minute before exiting through the same window. Court records show Santos-Smith provided the FBI with a video she took in the Capitol, saying she initially deleted the footage so law enforcement wouldn't find it but was able to recover it.
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Wilmar Montano Alvarado
Wilmar Montano Alvarado

  • Arrested or charged on: Jan. 25, 2021
  • Home state: Texas
Charges
Restricted building or grounds; violent entry or disorderly conduct; Civil disorders; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees; obstruction of an official proceeding

What happened
Alvarado gave an interview with Fox 26 Houston on Jan. 8 as he prepared to board a flight in which he admitted to climbing the Capitol steps but said he was pushed toward the door "with my hands up," court records show. He told the television station that he told a police officer, "I’m not part of this. I’m trying to get out.” He said he had been hit in the head by a speaker thrown from the crowd. After the FBI included a photo of him in a poster of people it was seeking information about, he called the Houston field office and told an agent that he didn't assault any officers but stood on the balcony with a flag.

According to court records, the FBI reviewed YouTube video that showed Alvarado "participated in efforts by rioters to violently battle their way through a line of police officers guarding the West Terrace entrance."
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Michael Stepakoff
Michael Stepakoff

  • Age: 55
  • Arrested or charged on: Jan. 28, 2021
  • Home state: Florida
Charges
Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; knowingly engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in an restricted building or grounds; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds

What happened
Stepakoff is a Messianic rabbi from Palm Harbor, Florida, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

A witness who has known Stepakoff for roughly 20 years confirmed his identity in surveillance footage from inside the Capitol, according to court records. The FBI also collected social media posts from Stepakoff's Facebook page, which included a selfie of him outside the Capitol.

Court records state that in a Facebook post from Jan. 6, Stepakoff's spouse wrote, "Update on Michael y’all…please continue to prayers for his protection and to be safe. He texted me privately and said he is okay but it’s very dangerous where he is- He was inside the Capital Building…” A second witness spoke with Stepakoff the evening of Jan. 6 and told the FBI that Stepakoff confirmed he had entered the Capitol earlier that day.
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Pence plans to form fundraising group as he moves beyond Trump, Capitol riot

The former vice president plans to settle back in Indiana, where he has been staying with family.
Image: Mike Pence

Mike Pence arrives before Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th U.S. president on Jan. 20 at the Capitol.Win McNamee / Pool via AFP - Getty Images

Jan. 31, 2021, 2:00 AM PST
By Hallie Jackson and Monica Alba

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence is beginning to build a political future without Donald Trump, including making plans to form a policy-focused fundraising committee that would help him maintain a relationship with donors, according to multiple sources familiar with his plans.

Pence, who left Washington and took a post-inauguration vacation with his wife in St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, ahead of resettling in Indiana, is expected to announce his new venture in the coming weeks, sources said.

To say the end of his time in office was rocky would be putting it mildly. His relationship with Trump has been virtually nonexistent since a mob of the former president's followers stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to confront Pence and overturn the outcome of the election. Before the Jan. 6 riot, Pence's time with Trump had been defined by the vice president's role as a loyal soldier.



After Pence and his family had to be rushed from the Senate chamber and hidden from the rioters, it has raised questions about whether he might testify in Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial, which will consider whether the former president was guilty of insurrection for encouraging his supporters to go the Capitol.

However, there have not been signals from lawmakers who will conduct the impeachment trial that Pence could be called as a witness, such discussion of conducting depositions or preparing a statement.

And those close to Pence think his lawyers would argue he can avoid testifying by invoking executive privilege, according to one Republican source. Executive privilege is a doctrine that has been used to prevent the legislative branch from compelling testimony from the executive branch.

But it remains unclear whether the staff members who were with Pence on Jan. 6, and who experienced the riot as well, would also be able to invoke executive privilege.

Pence also seems prepared to start a new chapter and move on.

Within the next month, he is likely to announce the formation of a nonprofit social welfare organization to amplify his positions on a “consistent conservative philosophy,” as one person familiar with the plan described it. Such groups, known as 501(c)(4) nonprofits, can be active on political issues but are not allowed to engage in campaigning, and they can attract millions of dollars by keeping their donors secret.

Starting his own group would give Pence a foothold in the fundraising world, allowing him to maintain relationships with donors in case he decides to run for president in 2024.

Pence is not expected to make an announcement about his own future campaigns until after the 2022 midterms, and advisers caution he has not made a final decision about whether to run.

Pence may write a book. And he’s expected to hit the campaign trail ahead of the 2022 races to support Republican candidates, particularly in gubernatorial races.

[COMMENT: HELL NO! BACK STABBING SOB!]
 

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2 Proud Boys indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Capitol riot

by: Associated Press
Posted: Jan 30, 2021 / 12:36 PM PST / Updated: Jan 30, 2021 / 12:37 PM PST
This photo provided by the FBI shows Dominic Pezzola. The Department of Justice announced Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, two New York men identified as members of the Proud Boys have been indicted on federal conspiracy and other charges in the Jan. 6, Capitol riot. Pezzola and William Pepe were arrested earlier in the month on federal charges including illegally entering a restricted building. (FBI via AP)

This photo provided by the FBI shows Dominic Pezzola. The Department of Justice announced Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, two New York men identified as members of the Proud Boys have been indicted on federal conspiracy and other charges in the Jan. 6, Capitol riot. Pezzola and William Pepe were arrested earlier in the month on federal charges including illegally entering a restricted building. (FBI via AP)

Two men identified as members of the Proud Boys have been indicted on federal conspiracy and other charges in the Capitol riot as prosecutors raise the stakes in some of the slew of cases stemming from the Jan. 6 insurrection.

This photo provided by the FBI shows Dominic Pezzola. The Department of Justice announced Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, two New York men identified as members of the Proud Boys have been indicted on federal conspiracy and other charges in the Jan. 6, Capitol riot. Pezzola and William Pepe were arrested earlier in the month on federal charges including illegally entering a restricted building. (FBI via AP)

This photo provided by the FBI shows Dominic Pezzola. The Department of Justice announced Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, two New York men identified as members of the Proud Boys have been indicted on federal conspiracy and other charges in the Jan. 6, Capitol riot. Pezzola and William Pepe were arrested earlier in the month on federal charges including illegally entering a restricted building. (FBI via AP)

Dominic Pezzola, a former Marine who authorities say was seen on video smashing a Capitol window with a stolen Capitol Police riot shield, and William Pepe, who authorities said was photographed inside the building, were arrested earlier in the month on federal charges that included illegally entering a restricted building. The two, both from New York state, have now been indicted in Washington on charges that newly include conspiracy.

“The object of the conspiracy was to obstruct, influence, impede and interfere with law enforcement officers engaged in their official duties in protecting the U.S. Capitol and its grounds,” the indictment says, accusing Pezzola, Pepe and unnamed others of leading a group of Proud Boys and others to the Capitol and moving police barricades there.

Pezzola went on to snatch an officer’s shield and use it to break the window, according to the indictment, which was filed in court Friday.

Pezzola’s lawyer Michael Scibetta said Saturday he was researching the charges but hadn’t been able yet to discuss the indictment with his client, who is being held without bail. A lawyer for Pepe, Shelli Peterson, declined to comment.

Three self-described members of a paramilitary group were charged with conspiracy this month and accused of plotting the attack on the Capitol. But the new charges against Pezzola and Pepe appear to be the first conspiracy cases involving alleged members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group of self-described “Western chauvinists.”

Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. attorney for Washington, said in a court filing Friday that Pezzola “showed perseverance, determination, and coordination in being at the front lines every step along the way before breaking into the Capitol,” and that his actions in shattering the window and allowing an initial group of rioters to stream through “cannot be overstated.”

Pezzola was later seen on video inside the Capitol with a cigar, having what he called a “victory smoke,” and boasting that he “knew we could take this” over, Sherwin wrote. He argued the remarks showed Pezzola “invested a significant personal effort to take over the Capitol and that he did so in coordination with others.”

An unidentified witness told the FBI that Pezzola was with a group at the Capitol whose members said they would have killed anyone they got hold of, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and then-Vice President Mike Pence, according to prosecutors. The witness added that people in the group said they’d return on the “20th” and kill everyone they could. The presidential inauguration was Jan. 20.

In a search of Pezzola’s home in Rochester, New York, FBI agents found a computer thumb drive with hundreds of files detailing how to make firearms, poisons or explosives, Sherwin wrote in arguing that Pezzola should continue to be held without bail.

Pezzola, 43, served six years stateside in the Marines as an infantryman and was discharged in 2005 at the rank of corporal, service records show. His lawyer has said his client is self-employed and a family man.

Pepe, 31, was photographed inside the Capitol and later identified as a Metro-North Railroad train yard laborer who had called in sick to go to Washington for a Jan. 6 protest by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to a Jan. 11 criminal court complaint. Pepe, who lives in Beacon in New York’s Hudson Valley, has since been suspended without pay from his job at the New York City-area commuter railroad.

At Trump’s urging, thousands of the protesters streamed to the Capitol. Some then stormed it, temporarily disrupting Congress’ certification of Democratic President Joe Biden’s victory over the Republican Trump in the November election.

Overall, federal authorities have charged more than 150 people in the Capitol siege.

The Justice Department said both Pepe and Pezzola have gone to Proud Boys gatherings and have tactical vests emblazoned with the group’s logo.

The group is known for violent confrontations with antifascists and other ideological opponents at protests. In a notable moment on the campaign trail last year, Trump told the group to “stand back and stand by” when asked at a September debate whether he would condemn white supremacist and militia groups that showed up at some protests last summer.

Shortly before the Capitol riot, the Proud Boys’ leader, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, was arrested in Washington and ordered to stay out of the city after being accused of vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church in December.
 

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GOP Lawmakers in Key Battlegrounds to Tighten Vote-by-Mail Rules
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Absentee ballot election workers stuff ballot applications at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections office in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 4, 2020. - The US election is officially open: North Carolina on September 4, 2020 launched vote-by-mail operations for the November 3 contest between President Donald Trump and Joe …
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GOP state lawmakers in three battleground states where President Joe Biden narrowly defeated former President Donald Trump in November are looking to tighten their states’ vote-by-mail rules.

The moves come after Trump spent the lead-up to the general election by going after vote-by-mail, which was implemented in many states to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump repeatedly claimed that vote-by-mail would lead to “fraud” and would “destroy this country.”

There was a surge in early and mail-in voting during the 2020 election, with most votes cast by Democrats.

Now, with legislative sessions in the statehouses in session, GOP lawmakers are coming up with a flurry of laws aimed at restricting vote-by-mail.

In Georgia, Republican state Sen. Jason Anavitarte introduced SB 29 this week. The bill, if implemented, would require voters to provide a form of identification when requesting and dropping off their absentee ballot.

Biden won Georgia by less than 12,000 votes out of the nearly 5 million ballots cast.

In Arizona, lawmakers introduced several bills aimed at limiting or getting rid of vote-by-mail. SB 1503, introduced by state Sen. Kelly Townsend (R-Mesa), would make voters return their ballots received in the mail in person.

Her House colleague, state Rep. John Fillmore (R-Apache Junction), called for limiting vote-by-mail to people who cannot physically get to a polling place, according to the Arizona Republic.

But one bill that had passed the Senate Government Committee along party lines would take voters off the early voting list if they do not vote-by-mail in two consecutive election cycles, the Arizona Republic reported.

Biden won Arizona by slightly over 10,000 votes.

In Pennsylvania, Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano introduced legislation to repeal the “no-excuse” absentee voting law passed in 2019, WHP reported.

Biden won Pennsylvania by just over 80,000 votes out of nearly 7 million ballots cast.
 

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The Trump Comeback Begins: The Plan to Make Trump and America Great Again
Wayne Allyn Root
Wayne Allyn Root

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Posted: Jan 31, 2021 12:01 AM

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The Trump Comeback Begins: The Plan to Make Trump and America Great Again

Source: AP Photo/Brynn Anderson

I am the author of the bestselling book "TRUMP RULES." My book identifies the top 10 rules that made former President Donald Trump one of the greatest winners in world history in business, branding, real estate, celebrity, television, publishing and politics. Trump is the only person in world history to reach the pinnacle of all of those fields. And the only person to become both a billionaire and president of the United States. It's not a bad resume.

Many critics think Trump's winning streak ended with a presidential loss. I disagree. I know the man. I understand the man. I know what comes next. It may be Trump's greatest chapter yet.

Simply because Trump is relentless. He may be the most relentless human in world history. The secret to Trump's success is "the art of the comeback." Every time he is given up for dead, he makes the biggest comeback yet. He never gives up or gives in. He finds a way to turn lemons into lemonade. You can't beat someone like that. You can't bet against someone like that. As I always say, NBAT: Never Bet Against Trump.

Before I get to the details of the comeback, let's define "winning." Trump's critics think he just lost and, therefore, he's no longer a winner. Not true. Back in 2016, Trump won the biggest upset in political history. This time around, he added 11 million new votes. His 74 million votes were the most votes for any incumbent president in America's history. Trump also received more votes than any Republican in history.

Sorry, Trump haters, but that's called "winning" at superhuman levels.

Nonetheless, Trump lost and Joe Biden won. Democrats, RINOS (Republicans in Name Only) and the "fake news" media all believe Trump is finished. So, now it's time for the greatest comeback in history -- for Trump and America.

Here's my game plan for how Trump can make Trump and America great again.

First, Trump must become the kingmaker of the GOP. The Trump Army is 74 million strong. The Republican Party belongs to Trump. He should remake the party in his image.

In some ways, his defeat was empowering. As president, Trump couldn't get rid of RINOS and never-Trumpers, because he needed their votes. But from the outside, he can remake the party, elect allies and end the careers of the GOP traitors who stabbed him in the back. Are you listening, Rep. Liz Cheney?

Trump should recruit, endorse and campaign for Trump Republicans in each GOP primary where they're running against RINOS, never-Trumpers and backstabbers. Seventy-four million Trump voters will vote for his chosen candidates in GOP primaries. By 2022, the GOP will be 100% remade in Trump's image.

Secondly, Trump should spend the next four years fixing voter fraud at the state level. Trump should recruit his billionaire buddies to put up hundreds of millions to attack this problem. Trump's goal should be to reform election law in just the handful of states that cost him the election: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona.

If Trump spends his time, money and focus on reforming election laws in those six states, the GOP will be back in business in 2022 and 2024.

Thirdly, Trump needs to raise billions from his billionaire backers to build TMN: Trump Media Network. That should include a national cable TV network; a national talk radio network; a new version of Drudge Report (called Trump Report); and conservative versions of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

Conservatives will never again have to depend on the mainstream media or Silicon Valley to broadcast their news and opinions.

Only Trump has the money, brand and fundraising ability to change the media and social media landscape like this. And think of the amazing bonus: Not only will 74 million Trump voters have permanent places to communicate but if we all move away from mainstream media and social media, they will collapse. Trump will cripple his enemies and put many of them out of business.

Lastly, here's one more idea: Trump, run for Congress in 2022. Pick any GOP-friendly district in Florida, where you're loved, primarily one run by a RINO who stabbed you in the back. You'll win the primary by a landslide. Since it's a GOP district, you're guaranteed victory in the general election. Once in Congress, after the GOP has regained control in the midterms and most of the candidates are loyal to you, you'll be elected speaker of the House. From that platform, you can lead the impeachment of President Biden.

Let the Trump comeback begin. Seventy-four million of us can't wait.
 

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Demanding Election Integrity: Tracy Beanz Interviews JovanHuttonPulitzer™


By
Wendi Strauch Mahoney
-January 31, 2021
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UncoverDC Editor-in-Chief Tracy Beanz sat down with inventor JovanHuttonPulitzer™ the second half of Friday’s Dark to Light Podcast to discuss his ongoing mission to expose and correct the ways ballots are handled, processed and audited in American elections.

Pulitzer is best known for creating and patenting: CQR—a platform that was developed to “help codes talk with each other.” Two decades ago, his technology “linked the physical world to virtual, and now unique codes are found to link physical to virtual around the globe.” Some have tried to discredit Pulitzer as a failed inventor for his CueCat bar-code scanner but he seemed to be unphased by the claims, saying “it was the most adopted peripheral in history.”

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It was his presentation to Georgia State Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Dec. 30 that publicly showed how kinematic artifacts on ballots can expose election fraud. This, simple, and expeditious solution was discussed in an UncoverDC article on Dec. 31. The article explains,

“Kinematic artifacts are “evidence on paper” of folding, printing, and markings on the physical ballots. Every physical process applied to a ballot leaves marks, many of which are invisible to the naked eye. Pulitzer said he could quickly detect many kinds of election fraud by running the ballots through forensic scanners designed to detect these kinematic artifacts.”

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The forensic evidence from ballots can detect with “100 percent” accuracy fraud and irregularities on ballots including, where they are manufactured, whether the ovid markings are human or machine generated, which ballots are mailed, which are authentic, whether the ballots were scanned multiple times, etc.

Pulitzer’s presentation was so compelling that the Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee unanimously approved permission for him to forensically review the ballots in Fulton County. However, he said, when “he was inches away from getting his hands on them,” the process was summarily shut down “by the opposing party.” They proceeded to “file legal maneuvers” that were then shuttled back and forth in the courts like a “ping pong ball.” And when those operations weren’t sufficient to halt the process, the Democrats “booted off” the Republicans who approved the forensic review to prevent further scrutiny of the ballots.

Pulitzer described actions by officials in Georgia who used the chaotic election to their advantage to suppress and/or block any actions that might expose what happened in the 2020 election there. He says that state and county official discounted evidence, used punitive force to run investigators out of town, and employed voter intimidation tactics to suppress evidence. They “made examples of people” who were trying to expose corruption and “crucified” any technology or methodology that purported to expose the way the voting machines were programmed. They also “engineered solutions to make you look in the places where corruption isn’t.” Pulitzer says that even Governor Kemp’s office was involved when officials in charge repeatedly told the public “to stop reporting this to us because you are creating a public record.”

Also discussed was the idea that the 2020 election was the “most secure in history,” as stated by former fired Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director, Chris Krebs. He also said that the “proof is in the paper, you can’t hack paper.”

However, Pulitzer said that “it just isn’t true.” There were people who signed affidavits saying that some liberal counties had ballots with no bar codes. Pulitzer says some counties had ballots with print that was out of alignment and there were variations in ballots where there shouldn’t have been. Most importantly, from the time a ballot is placed into the hands of a voter, to the time it is placed in boxes in a warehouse, the ballot changes many hands, opening the process to fraud.

There were also problems in the adjudication of ballots. Adjudication is the process of resolving flagged cast ballots to reflect voter intent. A human being reviews the ballots that cannot be read properly by the scanner and then determines the intent of the voter. He said that in 2016 in Fulton county, the adjudication rate was 1.1 percent. In 2018, it was 2.2 percent, and in 2020 it was 95 percent. Pulitzer said that it is very easy to bend rules in the adjudication stage of the ballot examination process. Simply stated, “it is a system set up for the success of robbing votes.”

Arizona’s Maricopa County (Phoenix) plans to conduct a forensic audit, finally enlisting independent auditors to examine ballots in February or March of this year. In December, the Arizona Senate issued subpoenas to the Board of Supervisors demanding the board turn over election material, including images of all mail-in ballots, detailed voter information and machines used to count votes, so the Senate could conduct the audit. There was a court fight but eventually the state legislature was recognized as having the sovereign duty to secure election integrity. The original auditor selected was a Dominion employee—a conflict of interest since he would be auditing Dominion Voting Machines.
Senate decides to conduct own audit of Maricopa votes after @FannKfann concludes that what the supes are offering really won't answer all the questions. But now the issue is will the county provide access and the ballots? Arizona Senate to conduct own audit of 2020 election results after all
— azcapmedia (@azcapmedia) January 30, 2021
In addition, says Pulitzer, when they pull boxes from the warehouse for audit, ‘they don’t tell you that the boxes have code number. In a transparent audit, we will randomly pull boxes. The people pulling the boxes know what the code means.” Often, they are “rigging the districts they know are not cheating. All of it is designed to usurp the vote. All the troubled states are doing it.”

The biggest challenge, Pulitzer says, is the “game of smoke and mirrors” that officials play when it comes to investigating election fraud. Their game is to “keep these things from being audited. We’ll agree to an audit as long as it is my people, my machines, my ballots and my software. The only thing they want to confirm is that the machine is transferring a ballot.” As was seen in the first “audit” in Georgia, the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger(R) essentially authorized a recount which is not the same as a forensic audit by any stretch of the imagination.

Tracy mentioned the recent efforts to demonize anyone speaking about election integrity in the forms of deplatforming, being targeted by law enforcement, and censoring on social media and the internet. “People,” she said, “feel overwhelmed” by those actions. Pulitzer maintains that education, transparency, public dialogue, and legal action are the only way election reform will come about.

He says we must “bring transparency and easy educational moments to the American people. They can make better decisions if educated.”

When asked whether he could talk about “good ways to get people motivated” in the face of what many see as a stolen election, Pulitzer spoke about the imperative need for Americans to dig deep:

“You have to make a decision, you either believe in the United States of America, and you are a Patriot and you want this fixed for everyone, or you’re going to roll over and play dead and you are just a battery unit in the matrix. But you have a decision to make about what you are and what you stand for. Remember, this is now up to us. We have waited too long for others to fix it for us. We now have to do this ourselves…. It is not about us. It is about our country, our children, and our grandchildren. And if you want them to grow up in an America that you believed you had and you love then you better get into the battle right now…I believe I can fix future elections so that they will be authentic and not able to be stolen. I want to give the American people their voice back. That is my next big battle…Our eyes are open. We can no longer stick our heads in the sand.”
 

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Capitol Hill Police Ignore Body of Trump Supporter Either Unconscious or Dead Outside Capitol Building on January 6th

By Joe Hoft
Published January 31, 2021 at 7:36pm
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A Trump supporter was either unconscious or dead outside the Capitol on January 6th. The police nearby ignored him while other Trump supporters appear in shock due to the police brutality at that point.

The media has reported little on the four Americans who died at the Capital on January 6th.

These people were Trump supporters so the media was more interested in labeling them terrorists than actually sharing what happened to them that day.
One media outlet labeled the four Trump supporters who were killed at the Capitol on January 6th as follows:
Roseanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia was ‘trampled in the Rotunda’, her family told DailyMail.com on Thursday after police she had been potentially ‘crushed’ in the mob.
Her family said she had planned to ‘hang back’ but was emboldened by Trump’s speech earlier on Wednesday.
They say they blame Trump for her death.
Ashli Babbitt, 35, was a 14-year air force veteran who was fatally shot in the chest by Capitol Police as she breached the building.
Kevin Greesen…Social media photographs show Greeson posing proudly with two AR-15 rifles. He regularly posted on the website Parler where he encouraged violence against Democrats.
Ben Phillips… According to The Inquirer, Phillips described the day as ‘the first day of the rest of our lives‘.
Big Media appears to not really care what happened to the four Trump supporters who died on January 6th because there is very little written about their deaths.

Today we have video footage of one individual who appears either dead or unconscious at the Capitol that day. The police appeared to ignore him and may have been complicit in his injury or death. We don’t know. What we can see is that at the 6:30 mark of the below video a man is down and out.

The police ignore the man and some fellow Trump supporters pick up the individual and carry him away. The man is not moving — at all.

At this point we are unable to determine if the man was one of the Trump supporters killed on that day:

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We still don’t know much about the individuals who died at the Capitol on January 6th.

God bless these people and their families and this country.
 

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Ted Cruz: President Trump was “Both Reckless and Irresponsible” and Did Not Prove Election Fraud in Any Court (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published January 31, 2021 at 8:43pm
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Senator Cruz is an example of a Republican who will never win a national election and especially moving forward after the 2020 election. Democrats BRAZENLY used EVERY TRICK in their bag to steal victory in November 2020. And they did it without a hint of shame.

In this week’s video, Senator Ted Cruz accused President Donald Trump of spouting “overheated rhetoric” about the election and failing to present evidence of voter fraud.
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Starting at the 16:52 mark of the January 25th, 2021 episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz states the following:
Senator Ted Cruz: “President Trump’s rhetoric, I think, went way too far over the line. I think it was both reckless and irresponsible because he said repeatedly—and he said over and over again—he won by a landslide; there was massive fraud; it was all stolen everywhere. That evidence, the campaign did not prove that in any court, and to make a determination about an election it has to be based on the evidence, and so simply saying the result you want, that’s not responsible and you’ve never heard me use language like that. What I’ve said is voter fraud is real, and we need to examine the evidence, and look at the actual facts; and in particular, what is the evidence of how much voter fraud occurred, and did it occur in sufficient quantities and in sufficient states to alter the outcome of the election. That would have been the mandate of the election commission; to assess.”
And later around the 25-minute mark, he refers to the events of January 6th, 2021 as “a terrorist attack on the United States Capital.”

Republicans better wake up! They either act now or the GOP will be the minority party in the United States moving forward.

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Stacy Abrams Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Overwhelming Georgia Elections System with Questionable Ballots

By Jim Hoft
Published February 1, 2021 at 10:15am

You just knew this was coming.
Stacy Abrams was voted for a Nobel Peace Prize on Monday for stuffing Georgia ballot drop boxes with questionable votes.

Her buddies Governor Kemp and Secretary of State Raffensperger must feel slighted for being ignored for their assistance in stealing the state of Georgia for Joe Biden and then Marxist anti-American Senator Raphael Warnock.
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And Stacy Abrams had a major assist from her sister, Judge Leslie A. Gardner, who blocked the Muscogee County Board of Elections and Registrations from keeping more than 4,000 “targeted voters” from casting ballots in the U.S. Senate runoff election on Jan. 5.

The voters in question allegedly live outside of the jurisdictions in which they were registered — which would be illegal votes in GA!
U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.

Abrams, whose work was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the U.S. presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, former White House adviser Jared Kushner.
“Abrams’ work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights,” said Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway’s parliament.
King, a Baptist minister who became a leader of the 1960s civil rights movement, won the Nobel prize in 1964 and remains among its most famous laureates.
“Abrams’ efforts to complete King’s work are crucial if the United States of America shall succeed in its effort to create fraternity between all its peoples and a peaceful and just society,” Haltbrekken said.
 

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Update: Capitol Hill Rioter and Antifa Activist John Sullivan Accused of Violating Terms of Release Agreement

By Jim Hoft
Published February 1, 2021 at 12:21pm
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Antifa-Insurgence leader John Earl Sullivan is in custody after being arrested in Utah on Thursday.

As reported previously Antifa protester John Sullivan was caught on video posing as a Trump supporter during the rioting at the US Capitol last week.


Footage obtained by the Gateway Pundit from militant Black Lives Matter and Antifa activist John Sullivan’s Discord server shows the so-called “civil rights activist” reveling inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6 as he damaged federal property.

Sullivan has maintained in multiple interviews that he regularly attends protests only to record what’s going on, but did not actively partake in the insurgence in Washington. This is a lie. He is a leader of the Utah Antifa-BLM movement and has been previously arrested.

“It’s just recording, solely, and not being active in it,” he told Fox News last week.
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Sullivan also organized an Antifa-Insurgence rally on January 6th at the Washingotn Monument at 11 AM before they stormed the US Capitol.

The mainstream media refuses to report these facts.

John Sullivan is hot water again after he was accused last week of violating his release agreement.

FOX News reported:
In a court document filed last week, U.S. Pretrial Services Officer Josh Cahoon alleged that Sullivan violated his approved Internet usage on four separate instances, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Magistrate Judge Daphne Oberg, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, issued a court summons for Sullivan based on the filing. He faces federal charges of civil disorder, entering a restricted building and violent entry or disorderly conduct.
The judge had ordered Sullivan to be released conditonally without bail on Jan. 15, deciding that prosecutors failed to meet the legal threshold required to keep him jailed. Assistant U.S. Attorney Bryan Reeves had argued Sullivan is a risk for trying to threaten witnesses or jurors, but Oberg said Reeves lacked substantial evidence.
The terms of his release agreement required Sullivan to stay off social media before trial, surrender his passport and be on house arrest. He also was ordered to stop working for the Insurgence USA activist group he founded, although he didn’t have to cede control. His computer and internet activities would be monitored.
 

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Biden White House OUTRAGED After Burmese Military Arrests Country’s Leaders over Alleged November Voter Fraud

By Jim Hoft
Published February 1, 2021 at 12:42pm
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On SUnday the leaders of Myanmar were arrested by the nation’s military for allegedly committing massive vote fraud during the November 2020 elections.

Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint were both arrested in morning raids on Monday by the nation’s armed forces, after widespread allegations that they had committed election fraud.

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As reported by the BBC – The army alleged the recent landslide election win by Ms Suu Kyi’s party was marred by fraud. Aung San Suu Kyi told supporters in a letter that the military’s actions would put the country back under a dictatorship.

The Joe Biden White House was OUTRAGED that the military would take over based on voter fraud allegations from November.

Especially after “the media” said there was no fraud.

The White House released this statement.
The United States is alarmed by reports that the Burmese military has taken steps to undermine the country’s democratic transition, including the arrest of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian officials in Burma. President Biden has been briefed by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. We continue to affirm our strong support for Burma’s democratic institutions and, in coordination with our regional partners, urge the military and all other parties to adhere to democratic norms and the rule of law, and to release those detained today. The United States opposes any attempt to alter the outcome of recent elections or impede Myanmar’s democratic transition, and will take action against those responsible if these steps are not reversed.
We are monitoring the situation closely and stand with the people of Burma, who have already endured so much in their quest for democracy and peace.
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Have The Proud Boys Been Infiltrated By The F.B.I?

Reports are emerging that the 'western fraternal organization' has been infiltrated by the F.B.I. and is not exactly the organization we all think it is.

by vince7 hours ago7 hours ago

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Not again…..

I am seriously starting to believe that just about all groups we see in the MSM; whether it be ANTIFA, The Proud Boys, Boogaloo, BLM or just about any other group are controlled by the deep state.

Where else would the funding, and organization be coming from?

We all know that George Soros has a hand in funding many of these groups, but George Soros is not an isolated entity; he works with and conspires with deep state actors.

That is how he does what he does.

The most recent of these deep state phonies seems to be Enrique Tarrio. This guy is not only the leader of The Proud Boys, but also a frequent flier F.B.I. informant.

I also want to point out that the MSM regularly calls The Proud Boys ‘white supremacists’

How the hell is a white supremacist group led by a hispanic man?

The Proud Boys may be many things, but white supremacists they are not.

Take a look:

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The leader of the far-right Proud Boys group, Enrique Tarrio, previously worked as an informer for local and federal law enforcement, according to court records https://t.co/6Z4wOeE2nT pic.twitter.com/jJreRVX1D8
— Forbes (@Forbes) January 27, 2021
The Red State Observer had more on the story:
Earlier in the month, shortly before the installation of Joe Biden as president by the political establishment, I posted on the FBI scaremongering about armed extremists coming to Washington, DC, to disrupt the sparsely attended affair (The FBI Claims Armed Protesters Will ‘Storm’ State Capitols on Inauguration Day; Don’t Get Drawn Into This Nonsense).

The FBI has been on the “white supremacist militia” kick since before they slaughtered the Branch Davidians and gunned down Vicki Weaver. As I pointed out in The FBI’s Latest Homegrown Terrorist Plot Is an Obvious Joke but What Is Going to Happen to the People Involved Is Not, virtually all these militia arrests have one thing in common, that is, the group doing the planning is riddled with FBI informants who push members into a criminal conspiracy and then introduce them to an FBI agent to close the deal.

Tying these arrests to loosely organized groups is critical to the Security Theater taking place in Washington, DC. My colleague Jeff Charles, writing in Here’s Why The National Guard Is Still In D.C. Ten Days After An Uneventful Inauguration, notes:

It’s easy to see what this is. Democrats wish to maintain a troop presence for as long as possible to make it seem as if conservatives are such a huge threat that a constant National Guard deployment is needed to ensure that these rabid fascist bigots don’t carry out another assault on the U.S. Capitol building.
Again, there are no armed marches planned for all 50 states. This group is simply hopeful that they can do marches in all of these states. They do not have the ability to pull this off. It's not happening. The scare narrative was crafted by the FBI.
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) January 12, 2021
The head of the PB's is Enrique Tarrio. He's Afro-Cuban. pic.twitter.com/Nf1afBD7LO
— Maureen Moore (@HopesMom12) January 31, 202
Reuters had more details on Enrique:
In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.

Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. “I don’t know any of this,” he said, when asked about the transcript. “I don’t recall any of this.”

Law-enforcement officials and the court transcript contradict Tarrio’s denial. In a statement to Reuters, the former federal prosecutor in Tarrio’s case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, confirmed that “he cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to operating pharmaceutical fraud schemes.”
 

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Exclusive: Dozens of Former Bush Officials Leave Republican Party, Calling It 'Trump Cult'

By Reuters, Wire Service Content Feb. 1, 2021

U.S. News & World Report

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(Reuters) - Dozens of Republicans in former President George W. Bush's administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after his false claims of election fraud sparked a deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol last month.

These officials, some who served in the highest echelons of the Bush administration, said they had hoped that a Trump defeat would lead party leaders to move on from the former president and denounce his baseless claims that the November presidential election was stolen.

But with most Republican lawmakers sticking to Trump, these officials say they no longer recognize the party they served. Some have ended their membership, others are letting it lapse while a few are newly registered as independents, according to a dozen former Bush officials who spoke with Reuters.

"The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I’d call it the cult of Trump," said Jimmy Gurulé, who was Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Bush administration.

Kristopher Purcell, who worked in the Bush White House’s communications office for six years, said roughly 60 to 70 former Bush officials have decided to leave the party or are cutting ties with it, from conversations he has been having. "The number is growing every day," Purcell said.

Their defection from the Republican Party after a lifetime of service for many is another clear sign of how a growing intraparty conflict over Trump and his legacy is fracturing it.

The party is currently caught between disaffected moderate Republicans and independents disgusted by the hold Trump still has over elected officials, and Trump’s fervently loyal base. Without the enthusiastic support of both groups, the party will struggle to win national elections, according to polling, Republican officials and strategists.

The Republican National Committee referred Reuters to a recent interview its chair Ronna McDaniel gave to the Fox Business channel. “We’re having a little bit of a spat right now. But we are going to come together. We have to,” McDaniel said, predicting the party will unite against the agenda of President Joe Biden, a Democrat.

Representatives for Trump did not respond to a request for comment.
A representative of former President Bush did not respond to a request for comment. During the Trump presidency Bush made clear he had “retired from politics."

'IT'S APPALLING'

More than half of the Republicans in Congress - eight senators and 139 House representatives - voted to block certification of the election just hours after the Capitol siege.

Most Republican Senators have also indicated they would not support the impeachment of Trump, making it almost certain that the former president won't be convicted in his Senate trial. Trump was impeached on Jan. 13 by the Democratic-led House of Representatives on charges of "incitement of insurrection," the only president to be impeached twice.

The unwillingness by party leaders to disavow Trump was the final straw for some former Republican officials.

"If it continues to be the party of Trump, many of us are not going back," Rosario Marin, a former Treasurer of the U.S. under Bush, told Reuters. "Unless the Senate convicts him, and rids themselves of the Trump cancer, many of us will not be going back to vote for Republican leaders."

Two former Bush officials who spoke to Reuters said they believe it is important to stay in the party to rid it of Trump’s influence.

One of those, Suzy DeFrancis, a veteran of the Republican Party who served in administrations including those of former presidents Richard Nixon and George W. Bush, said she voted for Biden in November but that breaking the party apart now will only benefit Democrats.

"I totally understand why people are frustrated and want to leave the party. I’ve had that feeling for 4 years," DeFrancis said.

But she said it’s critical the party unite around Republican principles such as limited government, personal responsibility, free enterprise and a strong national defense.

Purcell said many felt they have no choice, however. He referred to Marjorie Taylor Greene, a freshman Republican congresswoman from Georgia who promotes the QAnon conspiracy theory, which falsely claims that top Democrats belong to a secret governing cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Another newly elected Representative, Lauren Boebert from Colorado, has also made supportive statements about QAnon.

"We have QAnon members of Congress. It’s appalling," Purcell said.

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Pennsylvania official at center of Trump election concerns resigns

By Steven Nelson
February 1, 2021 | 2:20pm | Updated
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar speaks during a news conference on November 4, 2020.

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The Pennsylvania secretary of state who emerged as a villain to supporters of former President Donald Trump said Monday she will resign for failing to comply with an unrelated state election law.

Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat, will leave office on Feb. 5. Her office botched the handling of a state constitutional amendment that would allow more sexual abuse victims to sue their alleged abusers.

In a statement, she said, “I’ve always believed that accountability and leadership must be a cornerstone of public service. While I only became aware of the mistake last week, and immediately took steps to alert the administration to the error, I accept the responsibility on behalf of the department.”

Pennsylvania law requires that proposed amendments pass the state legislature twice. The secretary of state’s office must publicize the proposed amendment in two newspapers in each of the state’s 67 counties ahead of the election between votes, which her office failed to do.

Gov. Tom Wolf, also a Democrat, announced Boockvar’s resignation in a press release that stressed the issue was separate from the presidential election.

“This change at the Department of State has nothing to do with the administration of the 2020 election, which was fair and accurate,” Wolf said.

“The delay caused by this human error will be heartbreaking for thousands of survivors of childhood sexual assault, advocates and legislators, and I join the Department of State in apologizing to you. I share your anger and frustration that this happened, and I stand with you in your fight for justice.”

Boockvar became a national political figure after she sought to accept mail-in ballots three days after the Nov. 3 election, which the state Republican Party said usurped the power of the state legislature.Federal judge nixes Trump campaign lawsuit in Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court sided with Boockvar, as did the US Supreme Court.

Ultimately, Boockvar said about 10,000 ballots arrived in the three days after the election — far short of President Biden’s margin of victory of about 80,000 votes.

Trump and his campaign claimed Boockvar was complicit in voting irregularities, but those claims were presented unsuccessfully in court.

Trump tweeted one day after the election, “We are winning Pennsylvania big, but the PA Secretary of State just announced that there are ‘Millions of ballots left to be counted.'”

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri objected to certification of Pennsylvania’s electors for Biden shortly after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and disrupted proceedings. The Senate voted 92-7. to accept Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania. The House voted 282-138 to affirm Biden’s win.
 

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Nonvoters, Registered Democrats Among Those Arrested at Capitol Protest
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Nonvoters and registered Democrats were among those who were arrested at the January 6 Capitol protest, an analysis of voting records show.

The January 6 event, which has been overwhelmingly branded as a pro-Trump protest, sparked the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump as Democrats, primarily, blamed him for the incitement of insurrection after he delivered a speech to supporters earlier in the day. Not once during the speech did Trump encourage supporters to engage in acts of lawlessness or destruction.

Nevertheless, House lawmakers, some of whom indicated that they feared for their lives as protesters stormed the Capitol, voted to impeach him for the second time. The trial in the Senate is expected to begin next week. Meanwhile, some Democrats are offering Republicans an ultimatum, continuing to blame them and their supporters for the events that transpired on the day Congress convened to certify the electoral vote.

“The Republican Party has a fundamental decision to make. Will it be a conservative party functioning within a democratic society? Or will it be an authoritarian party built upon the Big Lie, conspiracy theories and violence?” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked on Monday, concluding that it “cannot be both”:

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While the dominating narrative remains that Trump supporters and voters, specifically, rushed the Capitol that day to protest the election results, voting records show that some of the individuals involved in the riot were registered Democrats, and others did not even cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election.

According to CNN, which analyzed the data of over 180 of those arrested, “at least eight of the people who are now facing criminal charges for their involvement in the events at the Capitol did not vote in the November 2020 presidential election, according to an analysis of voting records from the states where protestors were arrested and those states where public records show they have lived.”

While it is true that “most” of the 80 had voted in the presidential election and “many” were registered Republicans, the analysis found that “a handful were registered as Democrats in those jurisdictions that provided party information.”

“Public access to voter history records varies by state, and CNN was unable to view the records of some of those charged,” the outlet reported alongside the revelations:
Among those who didn’t vote were a 65-year-old Georgia man who, according to government documents, was found in his van with a fully-loaded pistol and ammunition, and a Louisiana man who publicly bragged about spending nearly two hours inside the Capitol after attending Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally. Another was a 21-year-old woman from Missouri who prosecutors say shared a video on Snapchat that showed her parading around with a piece of a wooden sign from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. And a Florida man previously convicted of attempted murder who was accused by the government of refusing to leave the Capitol likely did not have the option to cast a ballot because of his unpaid court fines.
CNN also cited Jessica Stern, a Boston University professor who “believes a number of factors could have been at play” among those who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Some, she surmised, could have been “more attracted to the theater, violence or attention they would get from a demonstration like the one at the Capitol than to actually achieving their purported goal — in this case, different election results,” as the outlet reported.

The revelations coincide with the looming speculation over the fundamental nature of the protest. Democrats are reportedly building what has been described as an “emotionally charged” case against the former president in the upcoming impeachment trial, which Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has deemed “dead on arrival.”

Democrats hope to “present the Senate with fresh evidence that reveals what Trump knew in advance” of the protest, according to a report from the Washington Post.

Trump repeatedly called for peace as the events unfolded following his January 6 speech.
 

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“The Republican Party has a fundamental decision to make. Will it be a conservative party functioning within a democratic society? Or will it be an authoritarian party built upon the Big Lie, conspiracy theories and violence?”

Um.

The Democratic Party has a fundamental decision to make. Will it be an authoritarian party functioning within a Communist Dictatorship? Or will it be a party which acknowledges its fraud, seeks honesty in election, and endorses rule of law and Constitutional governance?

The fencing and armed National Guard tell you the answer.

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Dr. Shiva, Jovan Pulitzer and Others Join World View Weekend and Discuss Steps Going Forward to Uncover the Accurate Results of the 2020 Election

By Joe Hoft
Published February 1, 2021 at 5:30pm
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Last night Brannon Howse invited American patriots on his show to discuss the 2020 election and the evidence of what happened and how we can determine the extent of the 2020 election fraud.

In an excellent production last night, Brannon Howse interviewed a number of individuals regarding the 2020 election and what happened to steal the election from President Trump. Mike Lindell and Mary Fanning joined Dr. Shiva and Jovan Pulitzer in discussing the issues with the 2020 election and the suggested remedies.

This production provided a plethora of evidence on what happened during the 2020 election. China and domestic enemies of the Constitution combined forces to steal the 2020 election away from President Trump. It was an attack on the USA.

Mike Lindell spoke first about the 2020 election and how it was a miracle that President Trump won by so much. This forced the bad players in the election to edit their plans and add millions of more fraudulent ballots to the election results to aid in Joe Biden’s win. At the 27 minute mark Dr. Shiva begins his presentation and describes the 2020 primary election in Massachusetts and how he uncovered the ‘weighted race feature’ which allows algorithms in voting machines to alter election results. Next Jovan Pulitzer discussed how he has the patents and the processes to identify fraudulent ballets and determine the real winner of elections based on valid votes. The production was very informative and is highly recommended.

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Let’s hope those who can save the union listen and act upon what they can do to bring truth to the American people about the real winner of the 2020 election. Americans are so tired of being lied to.
 
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As We Predicted: Non-Voters and Registered Democrats were Among Those Arrested at US Capitol Riots

By Jim Hoft
Published February 1, 2021 at 6:02pm
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Antifa-BLM leader John Sullivan was arrested after busting windows in the US Capitol on January 6th.

A new study by CNN and reported by Breitbart found that several of those protesters and activists arrested at the January 6th US Capitol protest and riot were non-voters and registered Democrats.

As The Gateway Pundit has reported previously, there has NEVER been a Trump rally where activists later caused any destruction, let alone mass destruction or rioting.

There are also unexplained events at the riots like far-left activists changing clothes in nearby bushes and Antifa activists handing out weapons to their fellow goons inside the US Capitol.


Breitbart.com reported:
The January 6 event, which has been overwhelmingly branded as a pro-Trump protest, sparked the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump as Democrats, primarily, blamed him for the incitement of insurrection after he delivered a speech to supporters earlier in the day. Not once during the speech did Trump encourage supporters to engage in acts of lawlessness or destruction…
…According to CNN, which analyzed the data of over 180 of those arrested, “at least eight of the people who are now facing criminal charges for their involvement in the events at the Capitol did not vote in the November 2020 presidential election, according to an analysis of voting records from the states where protestors were arrested and those states where public records show they have lived.”
While it is true that “most” of the 80 had voted in the presidential election and “many” were registered Republicans, the analysis found that “a handful were registered as Democrats in those jurisdictions that provided party information.”
“Public access to voter history records varies by state, and CNN was unable to view the records of some of those charged,” the outlet reported alongside the revelations.
 

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Investigators Recommend No Charges For Capitol Police Officer Who Shot and Killed Ashli Babbitt But Still Won’t Release His Identity

By Joe Hoft
Published February 1, 2021 at 7:35pm
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After nearly a month since unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed in the Capitol, investigators have recommended no charges for Capitol police officer who fired the shots. However, we still don’t know why his name is kept under wraps.

Far left CNN reported tonight:
Investigators have recommended that prosecutors decline to bring charges against a US Capitol Police officer in the shooting of a pro-Trump rioter who was killed during the insurrection, according to people familiar with the matter.
The shooting of pro-Trump rioter, Ashli Babbitt, remains under investigation by the DC Metropolitan Police, the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, and civil rights prosecutors, a routine process for shootings involving the Capitol Police. A final decision hasn’t been made, the people familiar with the probe told CNN.

Justice Department officials could make a final decision in the coming days.
Babbitt was shot in the Capital and she died along with three other Trump supporters on January 6th at the Capitol. Babbitt was shot in cold blood and she was unarmed. We asked multiple times why the Capitol police officer’s name has not been released.


Some people believe the officer who shot the young unarmed Trump supporter may have been an anti-Trumper and therefore his name is being withheld from the public for that reason.

It is unusual that the police officer’s identity is being withheld from the public and yet he is being exonerated of any wrong doing from the authorities reviewing the case. These are very suspicious actions indicating there may be more to this very sad story.
 

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Officer Brian Sicknick’s Body will Lie in Honor in US Capitol Rotunda One Week Before Sham Senate “Impeachment” Trial

By Jim Hoft
Published February 1, 2021 at 7:16pm
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Capitol Hill Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed during the invasion at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The media ran with the story that Officer Sicknick was beaten over the head with a fire extinguisher by Trump supporters.

It was only later that the facts came out. Propublica reported that Sicknick told his brother he was merely pepper-sprayed. But according to Officer Sicknick’s family, he suffered from a blood clot and stroke and was on a ventilator, according to Western Journal.

Officer Sicknick’s family begged that his death not become a political ping-pong ball.

But it looks like it is too late for that.

Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi agreed to honor Officer Sicknick three weeks after his death will lie in honor in the Capitol Hill rotunda this week. His body will arrive on Tuesday and lie overnight until Wednesday.

Newsmax host Greg Kelly questions the timing.
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