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[–] HWK_290@lemmy.world 122 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Since then, new evidence has slowly been uncovered about the role of Trump’s attorneys, the operatives they hired and how the breach, as well as others like it in other key states, factored into broader plans for overturning the election.

Emphasis mine

So what is this about breaching voting systems in other states??? That's rather chilling

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that bit got my attention, too. I hope when the indictment drops, we get to find out more about it.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Trump's idiots got caught, but when a more savvy and intelligent politician tries this shit next, it might actually work.

[–] S_204@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Mitch McConnell has been pulling shit in Kentucky for years. It'll come out eventually.

[–] Techmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

If they did it in 2020, I wonder what the odds are that they did it in 2016 as well. Maybe he didn't even really win in 2016, they just cheated a lot. And that's why they've been so upset about 2020, "it worked in 2016, why didn't it work in 2020 too!?"

[–] Ton@lemmy.world 80 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Every accusation is an admission.

[–] dejalynn@kbin.social 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

“The Dems MUST have cheated. We cheated so much, there’s no way they could have won 😡“

I always suspected this is why they couldn’t accept that they lost.

[–] JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com 8 points 2 years ago

Yes. An admission that Cheeto boy needs to go to jail.

[–] yip-bonk@kbin.social 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Days later, Hampton shared the written invitation to access the county’s election office with a Trump lawyer, text messages obtained by CNN show. She and another location elections official, Cathy Latham, allegedly helped Trump operatives gain access to the county’s voting systems, according to documents, testimony and surveillance video produced as part of a long-running civil lawsuit focused on election security in Georgia.

Latham, who also served as a fake elector from Georgia after the 2020 election, has come under scrutiny for her role in the Coffee County breach after surveillance video showed she allowed unauthorized outsiders to spend hours examining voting systems there.

Remember Alfa Bank? Michael Caputo? Burning that Israeli spy? 2 Billion from the Saudis? Chinese trademarks for coffins and voting machines? Oh yeah and the stripping of children from their parents' arms and locking them in freezing cages? Member?

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I 'member the storm troopers...the real ones.

[–] user_AW11@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

US "politics" => where you can find criminals

Lately most of the criminals seem to gathered into one party

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait. Are you saying conservatives committed crimes to try to overthrow democracy? I mean, who would imagine such upstanding, honest, intelligent citizens could do such a thing?

Conservatism is a plague in desperate need of a cure.

[–] cedeho@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

It's so weird that we saw the USA having a president (of a party) which in my country is equivalent to the very far-right political party which is considered as basically the modern nazi party and wings of it being ruled unconstitutional by highest courts...

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.

While Trump’s January 2021 call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and effort to put forward fake slates of electors have long been considered key pillars of Willis’ criminal probe, the voting system breach in Coffee County quietly emerged as an area of focus for investigators roughly one year ago.

Together, the text messages and other court documents show how Trump lawyers and a group of hired operatives sought to access Coffee County’s voting systems in the days before January 6, 2021, as the former president’s allies continued a desperate hunt for any evidence of widespread fraud they could use to delay certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

Six days before pro-Trump operatives gained unauthorized access to voting systems, the local elections official who allegedly helped facilitate the breach sent a “written invitation” to attorneys working for Trump, according to text messages obtained by CNN.

Investigators have scrutinized the actions of various individuals who were involved, including Misty Hampton, a former Coffee County elections official who authored the letter of invitation referenced in text messages and other documents that have been turned over to prosecutors, multiple sources told CNN.

That same day, Friess sent a “Letter of invitation to Coffee County, Georgia” to former NYPD Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, who was working with Giuliani to find evidence that would back up their baseless claims of potential widespread voter fraud, according to court documents filed as part of an ongoing civil case.


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