New York Times: Trump and company knew their claims of voting machine fraud were bogus, proceeded to press the issue anyway

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Sick to death of ultra-partisan politics, and sick of anything to do with this orange f**ker. The one who organized a coup attempt to prevent a lawfully elected president from taking office. Clear-cut sedition, but no charges filed and everyone running around like headless chickens. Enough of this bulls**t. Excerpt -  

Two weeks after the 2020 election, a team of lawyers closely allied with Donald J. Trump held a widely watched news conference at the Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington. At the event, they laid out a bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that a voting machine company had worked with an election software firm, the financier George Soros and Venezuela to steal the presidential contest from Mr. Trump. 

But there was a problem for the Trump team, according to court documents released on Monday evening. 

By the time the news conference occurred on Nov. 19, Mr. Trump’s campaign had already prepared an internal memo on many of the outlandish claims about the company, Dominion Voting Systems, and the separate software company, Smartmatic. The memo had determined that those allegations were untrue. 

The court papers, which were initially filed late last week as a motion in a defamation lawsuit brought against the campaign and others by a former Dominion employee, Eric Coomer, contain evidence that officials in the Trump campaign were aware early on that many of the claims against the companies were baseless. 

The documents also suggest that the campaign sat on its findings about Dominion even as Sidney Powell and other lawyers attacked the company in the conservative media and ultimately filed four federal lawsuits accusing it of a vast conspiracy to rig the election against Mr. Trump. (Read more)

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