Mike Lindell doesn’t have to wait for Friday the 13th, Wednesday the 11th has already been the Day from Hell. First, he got notified that a judge was dismissing his Motion to Dismiss the Dominion Voting Systems law suit. So the Dominion v. Lindell litigation is still moving apace. When Lindell got wind of that he exited the cyber symposium stage toute suite.
But as bad as that was, it’s a fly speck compared to this. His lead expert, Josh Merrick, just did an exclusive interview with the Moonie-owned paper, the Washington Times, and he says that packet captures are unrecoverable in the data and that the data, as provided, cannot prove a cyberincursion by China. Ergo, Lindell’s got nothin.’ Which you and I knew, but certainly nobody was expecting one of Lindell’s lieutenants to put a knife in his back via the Moonie newspaper. Plus, dig this, the Moonies’ journalist is calling Lindell a conspiracy theorist. When the Moonies are labelling your actions as crackpot, you have crossed a line into another dimension.
“So our team said, we’re not going to say that this is legitimate if we don’t have confidence in the information,” Mr. Merritt said on Wednesday, the second day of the symposium.
Mr. Merritt’s break from Mr. Lindell accelerated the unraveling of the My Pillow millionaire’s months of spinning of a conspiracy theory that he said would reverse the outcome of the 2020 election and restore former President Donald Trump to the White House.
Mr. Lindell delayed a scheduled unveiling of his evidence on Tuesday at the symposium.He had offered $5 million to any in-person attendee who can disprove his claims. The offer is no longer on the table, said Mr. Merritt. […]
Yes, we have no packet captures. We have no packet captures today. And guess who is behind the packet captures? C’mon now, guess. Would you believe the HAMMER and SCORECARD fruit fly, Dennis Montgomery? Montgomery was going to visit the cyber symposium but he had a stroke the night before, reports the Moonie paper. We know how he feels.
Several cyber experts at the symposium became frustrated late into the first day with not being provided with packet captures.
Mr. Merritt and Mr. Wiebe said the missing packet captures could be a result of either the format the data was sent in or they were withheld by the source of the information, Dennis L. Montgomery.
Mr. Montgomery is a former government contractor who developed cyber tools named HAMMER and SCORECARD, which were allegedly used by the U.S. to influence foreign elections. Mr. Montgomery came forward with the data after he said the tools were being used to influence U.S. elections, according to Mr. Wiebe.
Mr. Merritt confirmed that Mr. Montgomery was the source of the data.
But the data Mr. Montgomery sent contains no packet captures and cannot be used to validate Mr. Lindell’s marquee theory, which he planned to unveil at the symposium, said the two experts.
Mr. Montgomery reportedly suffered a stroke on the eve of the symposium and has not been in contact with Mr. Lindell’s team or any cyber experts at the symposium. […]
Mr. Montgomery has also publicly claimed that the 2020 election was manipulated, which former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Christopher Krebs said was a “hoax.”
Still, Mr. Merritt said, the data did contain important “forensic” evidence of manipulated voters.
“We were handed a turd,” he said. “And I had to take that turd and turn it into a diamond. And that’s what I think we did.”
Speaking of turds and diamonds, Steve Bannon should be shitting diamonds right about now, when he hears of this. And if this doesn’t give Mike Lindell the epiphany he needs, the much touted “moment of clarity” without which a substance abuser cannot straighten up and walk a different way, then there truly is no hope for Lindell. Just put him in his strait jacket and throw away the key.
Lindell has stated he’s spent about $12 million on this folly, only to find out that his expert off in the shadows, Montgomery, is the same lunatic that tried to sue James Comey and prove that Trump Tower was spied on. Or, maybe he knew that. This story is just breaking.
Montgomery has nothing. I don’t think he has a clue how voting machines are managed. (Hint: they don’t connect to the internet.)
Isn’t this a howler? I keep thinking this story in Washington Times will get more press, but it’s not exactly taking off like a rocket ship. It could be that Lindell is fringe enough to where only those of us who are fascinated by his particular brand of lunacy are paying any real attention. Apparently the troops are getting tired at the symposium, a lot of people walked out this afternoon. The place looked pretty barren.
The Washington Times isn’t exactly a reliable source.
(I wasn’t kidding when I said it looked like my 40-year HS reunion. We had maybe 120 people there. There were about 80 at the various 50-year events (pizza place on Friday night, fancier dinner on Saturday).
Turning a turd into diamonds?
They didn’t even get away with rolling it in glitter.
There is absolutely no sparkle here at all.
Just a nitpick:
“. . . he exited the cyber symposium stage toute suite.”
That last bit should be “tout de suite.” Yes, in English it’s pronounced like “toot sweet” (the same as “toute suite” would be pronounced) but that’s a typical British mangling of French–presumably from WW1.