Trump White House aide was secret author of report used to push 'big lie'

[L. Coyote]

Source: theguardian.com

Weeks after the 2020 election, at least one Trump White House aide was named as secretly producing a report that alleged Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden because of Dominion Voting Systems – research that formed the basis of the former president’s wider efforts to overturn the election.

The Dominion report, subtitled “OVERVIEW 12/2/20 – History, Executives, Vote Manipulation Ability and Design, Foreign Ties”, was initially prepared so that it could be sent to legislatures in states where the Trump White House was trying to have Biden’s win reversed.

But top Trump officials would also use the research that stemmed from the White House aide-produced report to weigh other options to return Trump to the presidency, including having the former president sign off on executive orders to authorize sweeping emergency powers.

The previously unreported involvement of the Trump White House aide in the preparation of the Dominion report raises the extraordinary situation of at least one administration official being among the original sources of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/16/trump-white-house-aide-secret-author-dominion-report

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[exboyfil]

1. Does this make the federal government also liable

in the voting machine companies' lawsuits?

[NCjack]

2. I see a new lawsuit by Dominion. Trump and his WH-aide will require lawyers.

The materials that formed the basis of the report will be interesting to read.

[exboyfil]

5. The WH aide was working for us (at least the paychecks say so)

So I am afraid the federal government might get dragged into the lawsuit as well.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. I don't know if the Federal government could be held accountable

for an employee taking illegal actions. A private company employing an embezzler would have insurance and be examined for negligence in hiring. A government would not insure, or be insurable, but employees would be expected to follow their lawful duties. It sounds like some defense anyway.

[exboyfil]

3. Sounds like criminal fraud as well

I think Ms. Friess needs to tell her story in front of a Congressional committee and Justice department attorneys.

"Friess has told the Daily Beast that she had nothing to do with the report and did not know how her name came to be on the document."

[L. Coyote]

17. Criminal intent seems obvious. And they boast abouit their actions on video.

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[Phoenix61]

4. So they were laying the ground work for the big lie.

Before the election even happened. Sounds more and more like a RICO case to me.

[L. Coyote]

6. They knew full well they were getting their asses handed to them by Biden.

From the tweet replies:

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It’s pretty obvious why the report author’s name was switched: Navarro wanted to protect the paid govt employee, so threw a volunteer under the bus. He figured the administration could claim ignorance if a volunteer created such slander. Dominion will bankrupt all of them.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Who? Why doesn't the excerpt NAME the aide? "WH aide was named as..." WHO?

[suegeo]

9. If DUers don't have time to read the article, here are some names

...the Dominion report was produced by the senior Trump White House policy aide Joanna Miller.

They scrubbed her (Miller's) name from the report, and put a volunteer's name on the report, Katherine Friess. (On edit: I have in my notes--not in the OP's linked article--that Katherine Friess had a role in drafting DJT's executive order to seize voting machines. I have to keep written notes to keep all the conspsirators' and traitors' names straight, as well as the crimes they committed against democracy)

Joanna Miller worked for Sr. DJT adviser Peter Navarro

Miller's original report formed the backbone of other ginned up election fraud reports. For example, Pete penned another report with an assist from others who worked for Navarro in his office, including Miller and Garret Ziegler.

Ziegler went on some wingnut podcast and implicated others in Navarro's office:
Christopher Abbott
Hannah Robertson

*From my notes regarding Freiss:
News article March 1, 2022 "Capitol Attack Panel Subpoenas"
--Cleta Mitchell (on shake down call with Ga. Sec of State, find us XYZ number of votes)

--Kurt Olsen (shake down of Justice Dept. to open investigation into election fraud)

--Katherine Freiss (drafting exec order to allow the con man puppet to seize election machines)

--Phillip Kline (convened meeting with 300 state legislators to urge them to sign a letter that the stiff Pence should delay certification of EC votes)

Another aside: Peter Navarro was at the 2nd "war room" at Trump International Hotel on Jan. 5. (1st war room was Willard Hotel, where the attorneys gathered to plot the failed coup. Giuliani, et. al. traitors R us.)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Thank you! I wish OPs would excerpt the key paragraphs, not simply the first 4

No time to click links when the link might not have the information; no way to know if OP neglected or if it is simply missing from the article.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. Sounds like subpoena time for Miller. Nt

[suegeo]

21. RUMBLE podcast

The wingnut's podcast is The Professor's Record with David K. Clements.

On RUMBLE, the platform that a bunch of young American Nazis went to work on after being in congress (Nunes?) and working in the white house.

Trump media pushed money into it, as did Peter Thiel and Ohio wingnut J.D. Vance.

Another method for pushing lies and brainwashing.
Not to mention money laundering.

[Achilleaze]

8. Republicans humping their BIG LIE to death

Lying Republican traitors deserve justice. Lock them up.

[Cracklin Charlie]

11. Navarro...

The Hyena.

He must have been the guy running this division. His actions since reek of involvement in the Dominion scheme, and all the other election fraud schemes.

[L. Coyote]

14. His aide, senior Trump White House policy aide Joanna Miller, will be deposed, no doubt, along with

Peter Navarro, Garrett Ziegler, David Clements, Katherine Friess, and #FailedCoupGuy.

Joanna Miller's name was removed because Navarro was covering up how directly involved he was.

[maxsolomon]

13. Joanna Miller. Her name is JOANNA MILLER.

Why that's buried - not in the headline, not in the excerpted text of the OP, not in the tweets about it, and not in the story until the 6th paragraph, boggles my mind.

J O A N N A M I L L E R

Who was Peter Navarro's aide.

She will not "go through some things". She'll skate free of any consequences for this, because it's clear making shit up is not illegal.

[BlueIdaho]

16. What a pack of jackals.

But let’s never forget that King Rat is guilty of insurrection and should be put up against the wall and shot.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Yes, writing the names increases the visibility of the criminals to search engines. . . . nt

[tonekat]

15. Looks like she's with some RW podcast

Called "The National Pulse".

[suegeo]

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[They_Live]

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[JT45242]

18. hate to be 'that guy' but knowing they always project...

I have to wonder if the other machines used in KY, SC, and Maine that somehow had polls so wrong for Moscow Mitch, Leningrad Lindsay, and clutch your pearls Collins were actually compromised.

I have always wondered how Moscow Mitch whose favorability rating was so low could win in a landslide.

[L. Coyote]

20. Where are black box voting machines in use? That's where to look because

black box machines (DRE) eliminated the evidence and there is no way to recount or know if the tallies are true. Map that unto #FailedCoupGuy's 40,000 voter margin in 2016.

The only comprehensive data set of voting equipment down to the precinct level of the United States, going back to 2006.

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[Ford_Prefect]

24. Not to hijack the thread but this sounds like what might have gone on in the Kremlin

prior to the invasion. Lackeys writing reports demanded by the Crazy Person in charge which reflect his fantasies and desires.

Like minds and all that.....

[L. Coyote]

27. Peter Navarro is so, so done now that I want to ...

see him on Ari Melber's show again.

[Cha]

28. Boohoo.. Liars thought if they

Just Kept on Lying.. they could get what they wanted..

Guess what.. The Majority of Americans had an Exponentially Better Idea.. Get the Fucker OUT! tfcg did whatever he wanted in his 1st and only term because he thought he could cheat in again.

They must have been in total Shock that Nothing worked.

💙💛

[Mawspam2]

29. While Putin/Trumpkins sought to discredit...

...Dominion and Smartmatic, nobody is looking at entirely hackable ESS and their 'man in the middle' technology.

This week's PoliticsGirl podcast is a must listen.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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