Mark Meadows contacted US national security officials about a conspiracy theory that China was using

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

thermostats to hack into voting machines, report says

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows contacted high-ranking national security officials about a conspiracy theory that China hacked into voting machines with thermostats as part of his efforts to subvert the 2020 election results, CNN reports.

Meadows used his powerful position in the Trump administration to further the former president's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, including pressuring federal agencies to investigate or back up unfounded conspiracy theories, congressional investigations have shown.

CNN reported that Meadows reached out to officials at the FBI, the Pentagon, the National Security Council, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to ask them to look into the groundless Chinese thermostat hacking theory.

That conspiracy theory and others were also being espoused by former President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, attorney Sidney Powell, and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, two of the most high-profile purveyors of outlandish conspiracy theories about hacking and fraud in the 2020 elections.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mark-meadows-contacted-us-national-security-officials-about-a-conspiracy-theory-that-china-was-using-thermostats-to-hack-into-voting-machines-report-says/ar-AARqROj

[C_U_L8R]

1. All those Trump halfwits don't even add up to one complete intelligent lifeform

Egads, what dopes.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. To me sounds like a Trumpian strategy

TFG was always blaming something far outside himself for his shortcomings, and usually reaching overseas for it. The conspiracies he tried to have manufactured in Ukraine. China. His flock found conspiracies in pizza parlors. Vaccines planted microchips in your frontal lobes. Votes could be flipped using Jewish space lasers, or Chinese thermostats. The voting machines were crooked. There was bamboo (hey, chalk another up for China!) in the paper ballots. The voting machine manufacturers were conspiring to flip votes against him.

These people are loco. Or they try to create something visually concrete to see what will stick in the public's mind. Because that is the objective: political advantage manufactured out of thin air. It's their advantage.

[Claustrum]

3. I don't know. There are more times they are projecting.

So there are times I think we will find out years later that they are using stuff like that to rig the votes.

I mean, what they accuse democrats of doing are oddly specific and out there that no one would make it up as a lie like that because no one would believe it.

[Irish_Dem]

4. The Chinese and Russians want the GOP in power.

So his conspiracy theory doesn't make any sense.

[Celerity]

5. Why China Wants Trump to Win

Four more years might present tantalizing opportunities for Beijing to expand its influence around East Asia and the world.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/why-china-wants-donald-trump-win/613864/







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[Irish_Dem]

6. Exactly. China intends to be the next superpower and the US #2.

The way the US is fighting its own internal civil war China may well be successful.