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2020 Election

The First Batch of “Twitter Files” and the Ensuing Brouhaha

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Elon Musk, Twitter’s controversial new owner, gave journalist Matt Taibbi and others unfettered access to Twitter’s internal documents. Taibbi released a series of internal documents on Friday suggesting that the Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee were able to manipulate speech on the platform through tools that Twitter made available.

That manipulation included but was not limited to, the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story after it was first reported by the New York Post. The emails included in the tweets appear to cite requests from “the Biden team” and “DNC” including confirmations that Twitter “handled” their requests to delete posts.

Taibbi has claimed that the censorship machine impacted both “celebrities and unknowns alike” and that while both Republicans and Democrats both had access to it, the censorship was skewed by a leftist bias among the Twitter workforce. 

Here are the tweets:

 

One tweet showed that Democratic operatives could submit requests to the platform to remove tweets and that these requests were honored. “By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine,” Taibbi wrote. “One executive would write to another:  ‘More to review from the Biden team.’ The reply would come back: ‘Handled.'”

A second post showed screenshots with takedown requests from the Democratic National Committee.

The thread went on to address the Hunter Biden laptop story, with Taibbi saying he saw “”no evidence… of any government involvement in the laptop story.” He further asserted that the company’s decision to throttle the story was made at the highest levels, but was done without the knowledge of then-CEO Jack Dorsey.

Among those who questioned these measures was a lone Democrat.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) was the only Democrat lawmaker who expressed concerns with Twitter over the social media company’s censorship of Hunter Biden’s laptop just before the 2020 presidential election, according to internal discussions released by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

In an email to Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, Khanna told her Twitter’s decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Generating huge backlash on [Capitol] hill.”

Gadde “quickly” replied to Khanna, explaining the Twitter rules and discussing former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s suspension from Twitter for sharing the Biden laptop story on their platform.

“We put out a clarifying thread of Tweets earlier this evening to explain our policy around the posting of private information and linking directly to hacked materials,” Gadde said.

Still, Khanna seemed more concerned with constitutional violations than violations of the Twitter rules.

“Hope you’re well Vijaya! But this seems a violation of the 1st Amendment principles,” Khanna responded before highlighting New York Times v. Sullivan, a landmark Supreme Court decision on the first amendment that has implications for members of the press.

Khanna continued:

If there is a hack of classified information or other information that could expose a serious war crime and the NYT was to publish it, I think the NYT should have that right. A journalist should not be held accountable for the illegal actions of the source unless they actively aided the hack. So to restrict the distribution of that material, especially regarding a Presidential candidate, seems not in the keeping of the principles of NYT v Sullivan.

Khanna expressed his concerns to Gadde even though he is a self-described “total Biden partisan,” convinced the Biden family “didn’t do anything wrong.”

Khanna also said Twitter’s decision to censor the story brought more attention to Biden’s laptop than the “relatively innocuous emails” found on the laptop’s hard drive. He cautioned that Twitter’s censorship “is now leading to serious efforts to curtail section 230.”

One of many questions that remain is whether or not this was a natural occurrence, or something more nefarious. Are we going to find the intelligence communities’ fingerprints all over this situation? Have we already? Certainly, the FBI was involved, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

FBI Involvement?

It’s come out that  James Baker, a former top attorney for the FBI, went to work for Twitter and was one of the people who approved suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story on the platform.

As per the Emails:

“I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked. At this stage, however, it is reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted,” he said to other Twitter employees in an email discussing how to handle the matter.

“There are some facts that indicate the materials may have been hacked, while there are others indicating that the computer was either abandoned and-or the owner consented to allow the repair shop to access it for at least some purposes,” he said. “We simply need more information.”

Media Reaction

The blue checks of the world were chiming in as Taibbi released his tweets.

Predictably, establishment simps came out of the woodwork to tell you how you should think/feel about him now that he’s done what any journalist worth their salt would have done: reporting one of the biggest exclusive scoops of the year.

Naturally, The New York Times, Washington Post, CBS News, and ABC News ignored the story over the weekend.

Radio host Clay Travis tweeted, “there is not one single article about @elonmusk or the @twitter email release last night on @nytimes app this morning.”

“The @washingtonpost , which literally has ‘Democracy dies in darkness’ at the top of its paper: not one single article about @elonmusk or @twitter ’s email release last night,” Travis continued. “How is this possible @JeffBezos ? Do you own a newspaper or a propaganda rag?”

In response, Musk tweeted, “That is because The New York Times has become, for all intents and purposes, an unregistered lobbying firm for far left politicians.”

Viva Frei also chimed in:

 

GOP Summons

The Incoming House GOP chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky) plans to summon Twitter execs over the suppression of the Hunter Biden censorship during the critical 2020 election cycle.

‘I can promise you this: Every employee at Twitter who was involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story will have an opportunity to come before Congress and explain their actions to the American people,” Comer told Fox News.

“This story’s just beginning … because we’re going to have every single person at Twitter that was involved in this in front of the House Oversight Committee as soon as possible.”

 

Brazil Election Interference?

On the same day that Taibbi released the ‘Twitter Files’, Elon Musk admitted that Twitter may have interfered in the recent Brazilian election as well.

Left-wing candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva beat incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by a narrow margin of just 1.8% in late October to become Brazil’s next President.

Many have alleged that Twitter banned accounts that supported Bolsonaro and boosted accounts and stories that were favorable to left-wing candidates in Brazil.

After the ‘Twitter Files’ were released that showed that the US government colluded with Twitter to interfere in the 2020 election, Twitter users asked Musk to look into what other elections Twitter may have interfered with.

Musk said that he was currently looking into claims that Twitter interfered in the Brazilian election.

In the past, Twitter removed an earlier post from Jair Bolsonaro praising Hydroxychloroquine as an optional treatment for COVID-19.

As reported earlier, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has celebrated the sale of Twitter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. About an hour after the confirmation of the change of command of the social network, Bolsonaro retweeted a message from Musk in which he defends freedom of speech on Twitter.

List of Known Election Fraud, Interference, Rigging from the 2020 Election in Swing States

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Former President Donald Trump, in a letter sent to Judge Bennie G. Thompson on October 13th, 2022, outlined examples of potential election rigging by state.

You can read the full letter HERE.

Arizona

• Maricopa County accepted at least 20,000 mail-in ballots after Election
Day 2020, including 18,000 on November 4, 2020, picked up from the
U.S. Postal Service—more than the entire Election margin of 10,457
ballots.

• A study of early ballot envelope signatures identified 229,430
mismatched signatures in Maricopa County. Officials only reported
25,000 mismatches, or 1.3%.

• The Arizona Forensic Audit of Maricopa County identified numerous
anomalies, fraud, and Election law violations that are determinative,
including 17,322 duplicate absentee ballot envelopes, which surged
after the Election. Between November 4th and November 9th, scores
of mail-in ballot duplicates emerged. 96% of the ballots that came in on
two of these days were duplicates.

• Auditors discovered evidence that millions of files of General Election
data and security logs were deleted, with purges taking place on critical
days, including the day before the audit began on February 2, 2021.

• The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors admitted they purged the
system and moved Election data after they received a subpoena.

• Another analysis by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai in Pima County found
significant anomalies with mail-in ballots. In precincts with anomalous
high turnout (over 92%), mail-in ballots started flipping from 6%
Republican for Biden to 40% of Republicans voting for Biden, which is
highly suspect.

• Two precincts in Pima had over 100 percent turnout for mail-in
ballots— which is impossible—and 40 precincts had over 97%
returned.

• The audit discovered numerous State Election laws were broken in the
2020 Presidential Election, including A.R.S. 16-547, A.R.S. 16-548,
A.R.S. 16-550, A.R.S. 16-551, A.R.S. 16-552, A.R.S. 16-621, A.R.S.
16 Articles 1, 1.1, and 2.

• 2,500 duplicated ballots created from a damaged ballot had no serial
numbers, a violation of A.R.S. 16-621.

• 1,919 mail-in ballot envelopes were missing signatures, a violation of
A.R.S. 16-547.

• Maricopa County reported 1,455 “no signatures” on mail-in ballot
envelopes.

• To this day, Maricopa County has never provided chain of custody
documents for all Election equipment and ballots, in violation of A.R.S.
16-621 E.

• At least 740,000 ballots violated chain of custody requirements in
Maricopa County.

Georgia

• 43,907 ballots from Facebook-funded drop boxes were counted in
DeKalb County that violated the chain of custody rules. Remember,
Georgia was decided by 11,779 votes.

• Poll workers were caught scanning ballots multiple times on camera in
Fulton County. Ballot images confirmed at least 3,390 duplicate votes
were counted for Joe Biden.

• At least 10,300 illegally cast votes in Georgia (and up to 35,000) are
from individuals who voted in the wrong county, more than necessary
to “tip the 2020 results.”

• Brad Raffensperger’s own investigator in Fulton County reported
ballots were “unaccounted for.” He witnessed at least 2,800 ballots that
“came in mail carts instead of black ballot bins,” violating chain of
custody, and reported 1,200 ballots that were “cured” and “wheeled in
through the back door” days after Election Day, when President
Trump’s massive lead “shrunk as more votes continue to be tallied in
Fulton County.”

• The investigator also found “identical vote tallies repeated multiple
times” that “likely resulted in about 1,000 extra votes being tallied” for
Joe Biden.

• A week after this private memo was sent to him, Brad Raffensperger
falsely claimed publicly the Election results were “trustworthy” and
“sound,” when he knew they were not.

• Raffensperger was told of numerous irregularities on a video
conference call with Republicans after the 2020 Election, that put “the
outcome of the Election into doubt.” including an admission from an
Elections Board Member in Gwinnett County that, “We have way more
ballots than we have envelopes. I don’t think it was done right.”

• Hundreds of voters were taken away from “Trump” after Election
workers altered ballots that were rejected by voting machines.
“Trump” votes were thrown out, while spoiled ballots were unlawfully
counted for Joe Biden.

• During the hand recount, tally sheets were falsified showing unanimous
vote counts for Joe Biden, including 100-0 and 200-0 fraudulent
counts.

Michigan

• Officials in Detroit illegally blocked Republican poll challengers’
access, covered the windows, called the police, and denied lawful
challenges in order to count ballots in secret.

• Affidavits and video evidence show thousands of ballots being
delivered through a back door of the then-named TCF Center at 3:30
a.m. on Election night. The RINOs in the State Senate confirmed this
also in their report analyzing the 2020 Election, and said a “large
volume” of ballots were delivered to the TCF Center with no chain of
custody. Those ballots came from drop boxes.

• Matt DePerno found voting machines were subverted and accessed
remotely. In Antrim County, 7,048 votes were changed in favor of Joe
Biden.

Pennsylvania

• In Pennsylvania, as of February 2021, there were 121,240 more votes
than voters. By law, Pennsylvania cannot certify an Election with this
type of discrepancy.

• A lawsuit filed in Delaware County revealed video evidence of
Election officials discussing destroying Election evidence from
November 2020. “It’s a felony,” one official says after talking about
the need to “get rid” of voting “pads and second scanners.” Videos and
sources involved in the litigation say the Delaware County officials
“violated numerous Election laws and needed to hide evidence,” and
that the destruction of records was “done to ensure records eventually
provided actually matched the Election results that were reported in
Nov. 2020.”

• Attorney General Bill Barr ordered U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain to
stand down and not investigate Election irregularities, even after
McSwain reported that his office “received various allegations of voter
fraud and election irregularities.”

Wisconsin

• In Wisconsin, nearly 200,000 voters identified as “indefinitely
confined,” even though that was often not the case. They were simply
using COVID as a means to skirt Voter ID laws for mail-in ballots.
These ballots should have been thrown out. After the 2020 Presidential
Election, a judge ruled the Democrat Governor did not have legal
authority “to exempt all voters to get an absentee ballot without an ID.”

• 44,272 people, according to the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau,
voted in November 2020, without ever showing Voter ID, which is
more than twice the vote margin in the State.

• The Wisconsin Election Commission ordered nursing homes to violate
Election laws, leading to widespread voter fraud and 95 to 100%
turnout in nursing homes—an impossibility!

• In a powerful ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, drop boxes that
were used in the 2020 Election were found to be illegal. In a
concurring opinion, justices stated, “If elections are conducted outside
of the law, the people have not conferred their consent on the
government. Such elections are unlawful and their results are
illegitimate.”

As per Trumps letter:

“We have only covered five Swing States, this does not pertain to the rest of
the Country. For example, what is being done about the “cash for votes”
scheme in Nevada, where 15 out of 17 counties had more votes than voters?
Is the Committee going to report on the million dollars the FBI wanted to pay
Christopher Steele as an incentive to prove the dossier allegations and “Get
Trump,” or is it going to get to the bottom of the fact that my Campaign was
blatantly spied on by the Democrats, even while I was in the Oval Office, in
what for anyone else would be one of the biggest scandals in political
history?

It was also recently reported that the FBI interfered in the 2020 Presidential
Election by telling Facebook and the Media not to reveal anything about

Hunter Biden’s laptop. The FBI said it was “Russian disinformation,” but
knew that it wasn’t. It was a well-guarded secret that only one newspaper
had the courage to report. Eight in 10 Americans believe this unprecedented
collusion impacted the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election.

In addition, True the Vote, the Nation’s leading voters’ rights organization,
collected over 4 million minutes of ballot drop box video, showing ballot
stuffing at a level not seen before. This is also supported by highly accurate
cell phone data that tracked the same individuals going to as many as 28
different locations in one day to do this. All in all, millions of ballots were
stuffed. Based on their research, True the Vote estimates as many as 7% of
all mail-in ballots cast could have been ineligible—approximately 4.8 million
votes, an Election-changing number many times over.

Also, why haven’t you spoken with the USPS Inspector General, and the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission, about the 1.1 million mail-in ballots that
they admit were deemed undeliverable, 560,814 rejected, and 14.7 million
still “unable to be tracked” (as the Public Interest Legal Foundation
uncovered)? Where are they?

To this day, new evidence is emerging as Patriots around the Country are
uncovering systemic problems within their voter rolls. Furthermore,
Republican counties across the nation, from Texas to Michigan, Arizona to
Wisconsin and more, have voted to decertify and reject the 2020 Election.
The most recent Rasmussen Poll on the issue found a staggering 55% think
cheating likely affected the outcome, including 53% of Independents and
35% of Democrats, revealing this issue is not going away.

There are many other facts and discrepancies that we are not presenting at
this time due to time constraints, but that are also Election determinative. At
your request, I will present these additional numbers to you, but everything
already presented would change the final Election result many times over.”