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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and tweets suggesting Trump declare martial law
By Nathan McDermott, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN
Updated 8:02 AM ET, Fri December 4, 2020
(CNN) - President Donald Trump's nominee to become a senior Pentagon official spread debunked conspiracies on Twitter that called Trump's election loss to Joe Biden a "coup" attempt and shared tweets that suggest Trump should declare martial law.
Scott O'Grady, a former fighter pilot and Trump loyalist, repeatedly retweeted tweets that falsely stated Trump won the election in "landslide fashion" and that millions of votes were stolen from the President.
On November 25, O'Grady retweeted a tweet that said, "Trump won & Biden & his Comrades will now attempt a coup," next to a photoshopped image of Biden beside Xi Jinping, the President of China.
On December 2, he retweeted an account that shared an article that said former national security adviser Michael Flynn had shared a petition that called for martial law. He then retweeted the same account which suggested that Trump should declare martial law.
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Trump Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and tweets suggesting Trump declare martial law (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2020
OP
America needs a huge PURGE after January 20th... get rid of all these assholes!!!!!!!
secondwind
Dec 2020
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)1. America needs a huge PURGE after January 20th... get rid of all these assholes!!!!!!!
doc03
(35,358 posts)2. One of our retired county officials (a Democrat at the time) wrote a LTE yesterday. I couldn't
believe how bat shit crazy it was. He claimed in the LTE that there were 20 to 30 million fraudulent votes
for Biden. According to him he believes in this vast conspiracy involving the FBI, CIA, China and anti
Trump Republicans stealing the election. He claims Biden is attempting a coup and he will be an authoritarian dictator.
These nuts actually believe Biden is doing what we know Trump was attempting to do. It went on rambling about abortion,
Democrat pedophilia, drinking blood from fetuses and socialism. The guy belongs in a padded cell. I can't provide a
link because of pay wall. The guy was a body builder in his free time, I think he fried his brain with steroids.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)3. Biden should make it a top priority to uproot and FIRE all the Trump cultists in our government
Traitors, liars, grifters, saboteurs - ready and eager to stab him in the back