This is conceivably the most important development in the Big Lie since the first news conference which the members of Strikeforce Rudy had back in November. Intriguingly, it’s not being labeled “bombshell” in screaming caps, probably because the meaning of that word has now become retired. In addition to bombshell we need a new word, say, “Trumpshell” which could be defined as “that which would be a bombshell if the story involved anybody else in public life; but since it’s Trump, it’s just another day, another scandal, ho hum.”
Two weeks after the 2020 election, a team of lawyers closely allied with Donald J. Trump held a widely watched news conference at the Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington. At the event, they laid out a bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that a voting machine company had worked with an election software firm, the financier George Soros and Venezuela to steal the presidential contest from Mr. Trump.
But there was a problem for the Trump team, according to court documents released on Monday evening.
By the time the news conference occurred on Nov. 19, Mr. Trump’s campaign had already prepared an internal memo on many of the outlandish claims about the company, Dominion Voting Systems, and the separate software company, Smartmatic. The memo had determined that those allegations were untrue.
The court papers, which were initially filed late last week as a motion in a defamation lawsuit brought against the campaign and others by a former Dominion employee, Eric Coomer, contain evidence that officials in the Trump campaign were aware early on that many of the claims against the companies were baseless.
You want to hit the hotlink “internal memo” and read it in full. Here’s a screenshot of part of it.
This should give you the flavor of it.
Even though the memo was hastily assembled, it rebutted a series of allegations that Ms. Powell and others were making in public. It found:
That Dominion did not use voting technology from the software company, Smartmatic, in the 2020 election.
That Dominion had no direct ties to Venezuela or to Mr. Soros.
And that there was no evidence that Dominion’s leadership had connections to left-wing “antifa” activists, as Ms. Powell and others had claimed.
As Mr. Coomer’s lawyers wrote in their motion in the defamation suit, “The memo produced by the Trump campaign shows that, at least internally, the Trump campaign found there was no evidence to support the conspiracy theories regarding Dominion” and Mr. Coomer. […]
It is unclear if Mr. Trump knew about or saw the memo; still, the documents suggest that his campaign’s communications staff remained silent about what it knew of the claims against Dominion at a moment when the allegations were circulating freely.
“The Trump campaign continued to allow its agents,” the motion says, “to advance debunked conspiracy theories and defame” Mr. Coomer, “apparently without providing them with their own research debunking those theories.” […]
It remains unclear how widely the memo was circulated among Trump campaign staff members. According to the court documents, Mr. Giuliani said in a deposition that he had not seen the memo before he gave his presentation in Washington, and he questioned the motives of those who had prepared it.
Stroll down memory lane. Remember this? Fox couldn’t wait to get its teeth in this story. (Clip if from November 16, 2020.)
New York Times says Trump campaign had a memo on November 14, 2020, explaining that all their Dominion conspiracy theories were false.
Giuliani and Sidney Powell continued to promote lies via Fox News. Here is a Fox anchor saying it “sounded convincing.” https://t.co/17V8280ucL pic.twitter.com/uhRr6cONhR
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) September 21, 2021
So if we are to believe the memo, the Trump campaign — and by extension the RNC and probably a lot of people — knew there was no evidence but they just watched Fox News and Strikeforce Rudy cobble together an alternate reality.
Here’s a bonus clip because you deserve a good laugh.
Mike Lindell claims he's taking his voter fraud case to the Supreme Court before Thanksgiving. pic.twitter.com/NaWZb5pRtU
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) September 21, 2021
What’s that you say? Thanksgiving of what year? Will it be in this decade at least? If only I knew. Moving those goalposts must be exhausting work.
So is this coming out as a result of the defamation lawsuit and if so, do the strike force group think it will help their case? I’m thinking it will have the opposite effect of actually proving they deliberately lied.
The “strike force” needs jail time, as they used those lies in their court cases (which they lost).
I never thought they believed their own bullshit.
But that’s not the point, is it?
As long as the rubes believe it and the money keeps rolling in.
Watching The Three Stooges prepared me well for our present realities.