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jayschool2013

(2,466 posts) Mon Oct 28, 2024, 05:48 AM Oct 28

Inside the Movement Behind Trump's Election Lies

Source: New York Times (Gift Link)

SUBHEAD: For years, Republican activists have huddled in video meetings to talk about remaking democracy and plan for the election. The New York Times has obtained the recordings.

By Alexandra Berzon, Nick Corasaniti, Dylan Freedman and Duy Nguyen Oct. 28, 2024

In the aftermath of Donald J. Trump’s defeat in 2020, one of his election lawyers set out to keep the lies about his loss alive.

The lawyer, a well-connected conservative named Cleta Mitchell, knit together grass-roots activists, Republican lawyers, party officials and deep-pocketed advocacy groups into a vast national network. The aim was nothing less than remaking American elections.

Over the past four years, Ms. Mitchell’s Election Integrity Network has done more than any other group to take Mr. Trump’s falsehoods about corruption in the democratic system and turn them into action.

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The New York Times has obtained recordings of more than 400 of those meetings, over 400 hours of conversations, along with additional documents and training materials. It is a trove that provides an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at how misinformation is used to manufacture a movement.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/28/us/politics/inside-the-movement-behind-trumps-election-lies.html

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Inside the Movement Behind Trump's Election Lies (Original Post) jayschool2013 Oct 28 OP

i hope that the historians of the 22nd century can make sense of these morons, because i sire can't. rampartd Oct 28 #1

"historians of the 22nd century?" I admire your optimism. PSPS Oct 28 #6

i8 did not say these historians were bipedal, rampartd Oct 28 #8

It's incredible how delusional some of these people are: Ramsey Barner Oct 28 #2

Honey, that ain't God you're hearing. May be somebody supernatural, but on the other team. nt eppur_se_muova Oct 28 #3

She hears nonetheless! Ramsey Barner Oct 28 #4

These people planned an insurrection to overturn a fair election and install Trump as an illegal president. Lonestarblue Oct 28 #5

was just coming on to post this... sarchasm Oct 28 #7

I hope they don't wait four years BaronChocula Oct 28 #9

rampartd

(341 posts)

1. i hope that the historians of the 22nd century can make sense of these morons, because i sire can't.

Reply to jayschool2013 (Original post)

Mon Oct 28, 2024, 06:18 AM

Oct 28

PSPS

(14,138 posts)

6. "historians of the 22nd century?" I admire your optimism.

Reply to rampartd (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 28, 2024, 09:18 AM

Oct 28

rampartd

(341 posts)

8. i8 did not say these historians were bipedal,

Reply to PSPS (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 28, 2024, 09:36 AM

Oct 28

or mammalian.

Ramsey Barner

(669 posts)

2. It's incredible how delusional some of these people are:

Reply to jayschool2013 (Original post)

Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:16 AM

Oct 28

"Earlier this year, Ms. Mitchell said she was called by God to shift her attention to the possibility that noncitizens were voting."

eppur_se_muova

(37,407 posts)

3. Honey, that ain't God you're hearing. May be somebody supernatural, but on the other team. nt

Reply to Ramsey Barner (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:20 AM

Oct 28

Ramsey Barner

(669 posts)

4. She hears nonetheless!

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:25 AM

Oct 28

Lonestarblue

(11,834 posts)

5. These people planned an insurrection to overturn a fair election and install Trump as an illegal president.

Reply to jayschool2013 (Original post)

Mon Oct 28, 2024, 09:15 AM

Oct 28

How is that not treason against the government, and why are these people still walking around free to continue their plans to overturn another election? No one other than the insurrection army that attacked the Capitol has ever been punished. It seems Trump is the only one who has even been investigated and holding him accountable is far from a done deal.