Another year, another high-profile voter-fraud summit goes bust
Mike Lindell is an idiot, and the True the Vote idiots are scam artists. This voter fraud conference was a flop
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/15/trump-voter-fraud-2020-election/
It was just over a year ago that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell convened supporters and data experts in South Dakota for a multiday summit at which he pledged to show his evidence that foreign actors had interfered in the 2020 election.
As presented, the idea was straightforward: Lindell, who believed fervently that the election had been stolen, would finally offer up the raw information that he claimed showed how voting machines had been hacked and the results altered from overseas. This wasnt his analysis, obviously; hed hired guys who said theyd uncovered a pattern that could be replicated by others. But when the moment came
it couldnt. The data was invalid and/or useless. There was no proof. None has since emerged.
But Lindell was in a corner. Hed kept stringing people along for months, promising a big reveal. Whether he knew he didnt have anything or not, someone did. And this is how cons work: The stakes keep getting increased until the whole thing collapses.
This episode sprang to mind immediately when I started watching The Pit, a symposium held in Arizona over the weekend by 2022′s in-vogue election conspiracy theorists, the leaders of the group True the Vote. Same elevation of hype. Same collapse of what was promised.