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

[Judi Lynn]

Report on Dominion voting machines produced after 2020 election was not the work volunteer in Trump’s post-election legal team

Hugo Lowell in Washington
Thu 17 Mar 2022 02.00 EDT

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.

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

[LastDemocratInSC]

1. TFG's White House was working on the Big Lie before the election occurred.

From the Guardian article:

Ziegler has also said on a rightwing podcast that he and others in Navarro’s office – seemingly referring to Trump White House aides Christopher Abbott and Hannah Robertson – started working on Navarro’s report about two weeks before the 2020 election took place.

“Two weeks before the election, we were doing those reports hoping that we would pepper the swing states with those,” Ziegler said of the three-part Navarro report in an appearance last July on The Professor’s Record with David K Clements.

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This sounds like a conspiracy high in the executive branch to defraud the United States.