Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers' Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows

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BREAKING: The Trump campaign knew days after the 2020 election that wild claims of voting machine tampering — pushed by Sidney Powell and others allied with Donald Trump — were not true, court filings show.
Sidney Powell, a lawyer allied with Donald J. Trump’s campaign, spoke at the Republican National Committee’s headquarters in November and pushed baseless claims of election tampering.

Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows
Days before lawyers allied with Donald Trump gave a news conference promoting election conspiracy theories, his campaign had determined that many of those claims were false, court filings reveal.
nytimes.com
11:15 AM · Sep 21, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/us/politics/trump-dominion-voting.html

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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.

The documents also suggest that the campaign sat on its findings about Dominion even as Sidney Powell and other lawyers attacked the company in the conservative media and ultimately filed four federal lawsuits accusing it of a vast conspiracy to rig the election against Mr. Trump.

According to emails contained in the documents, Zach Parkinson, then the campaign’s deputy director of communications, reached out to subordinates on Nov. 13 asking them to “substantiate or debunk” several matters concerning Dominion. The next day, the emails show, Mr. Parkinson received a copy of a memo cobbled together by his staff from what largely appear to be news articles and public fact-checking services.

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.

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[Carlitos Brigante]

1. K&Fuckin'R

[hlthe2b]

2. I hope Dominion takes them ALL down.

[Takket]

3. I can't believe the courts are still debating fining or disbarring Powell

When they should be debating how long her prison we face will be.

[FakeNoose]

7. Sydney Powell is a head case, so is Giuliani

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. How many in the MSM will ignore this?

[ancianita]

6. Nicolle Wallace just covered this issue for the first 21 minutes of Deadline: White House program.

What they stopped short of concluding is that the defendants should be exiled from the political arena, and imo, the defendants knowingly criminalized the 2020 election process by criminalizing Dominion, and thereby aided and abetted the Jan 6 2021 coup attempt, so they should be punished to the full extent of the law.

[hibbing]

5. It is ALWAYS way worse than you can imagine n/t

[monkeyman1]

8. more shit the dump did & just keep piling on !

and the party of nothing just go's further under - please continue ! mitch & rand seem's to be the new picking post lately ! make's me wonder who is next ? maybe my favorite partners in mass extinction - deathsentence or the high priest of Texas ?

[MrModerate]

9. Heck, I knew it wasn't fraudulent, too, and before then. n/t

[jaxexpat]

13. It was easy to see, actually.

All you had to do was invert everything Trump said and you get facts. The crazier he ranted the greater his chances of prosecution.

[Justice matters.]

16. Heck, even Bill Fkin' Barr said there was not-enough-fraudulent votes to overturn the results!

Before running away in hidding to nobody-knows-where exactly.

[LaMouffette]

10. At the very least, they should be made to pay back states like Arizona for the millions of dollars

in taxpayer money that went for the fraudulent investigation by the fraudulent former president into the nonexistent fraudulent votes they claim were cast in the NON-fraudulent 2020 election.

Then take away the law license of every lawyer who participated in the bogus lawsuits.

Then take everyone involved to court, including and especially TFG, and send them to prison for 20 years.

[bringthePaine]

11. "FRUIT OF THE POISON TREE" - saddle up, I'm out😎...

[lagomorph777]

12. Everybody knew. It was open public knowledge.

How is this a surprise?

[riversedge]

14. More trumpers need to be arrested. NOW

[sarchasm]

15. These people need to go to jail, permanently.

This is way worse than shouting fire in a crowded theater.

[ffr]

17. Take 'em all down! All the treasonweasels

They give weasels a bad name. They're more like rat-fuckers.

[czarjak]

18. 2016: "It's rigged, folks"

[HAB911]

19. All the smoking guns are irrelevant unless

someone goes to jail

If you asked a Trumper about this, they either don't know about it, or if they know, it's fake

The only thing that will hit home is some of these people go to jail

I'm not holding my breath