Inside the Movement Behind Trump's Election Lies

[jayschool2013]

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

[rampartd]

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

[PSPS]

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

[rampartd]

8. i8 did not say these historians were bipedal,

or mammalian.

[Ramsey Barner]

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

"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]

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

[Ramsey Barner]

4. She hears nonetheless!

[Lonestarblue]

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

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.

[sarchasm]

7. was just coming on to post this...

The NYT shows us its spine.

[BaronChocula]

9. I hope they don't wait four years

to report on how the entire republican party has lied as a matter of course for decades.