Trump's Plot to Steal Arizona Was Even Wilder Than We Thought

[Soph0571]

On Tuesday the Arizona Senate finally complied with a court order to hand over its private communications with the people involved in running the audit. The massive trove includes communications that suggest former President Trump wanted to fund it, that Trump’s allies were involved from the start, and that conspiracy theorists involved in the recount worried about threats from antifa and Black Lives Matter. Oh, and workers were paid as much as $125 an hour.
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Christina Bobb, a reporter for the right-wing, pro-Trump station One America News (OAN), was one of the most visible figures during the audit, securing coveted interviews with those involved and gaining access to the count floor while other outlets were blocked.

But Bobb’s involvement went further. Together with OAN White House correspondent Chanel Rion, she set up a dark money fundraising group called Voices and Votes to raise money to fund the audit.

[link:https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3djav/trumps-plot-to-steal-arizona-was-even-wilder-than-we-thought|]
Emphasis mine
Much more detail at the link

Of course Trump is all over this!
Of course the cray cray worried about BLM and antifa violence - we all know how they project their nasty hate filled hearts onto everyone else, it it literally rule one in their handbook!
Of course they were paying themselves $125 dollars an hour. These are the same people who expect everyone else to work for a minimum wage that has not increased since God was a boy. Thee not me, rule number two.
Of course Trump looked at Fund the Audit as described in the article and of course he did not actually contribute to the fund. Trump rule number one, someone else ALWAYS pays.
Of course Trumps team was all over it from the beginning, cheaters gotta cheat, right? Grifters gotta grift.
Far right nazi 'news' site not only reporting on the propaganda, but funding it? Because of course they are!

They really are a bunch of Nazi democracy stealing loons, aren't they?

[underpants]

1. Got to read this fully later. $125/hour huh? Has this been confirmed with the workers?

Or are they just saying they paid that much.

Marty Byrde had 5 air conditioners installed at the Blue Cat Lodge but his records show it was 27. (“Ozark” TV show reference)

[twodogsbarking]

8. Ruth. She's a keeper.

[underpants]

13. Damn f'ing right she is

(At the funeral)
Wendy: who’s that
Marty: the KC Mob
Wendy: of course it is

[no_hypocrisy]

2. What was the "Big Picture"?

If they could get Arizona to declare Trump winning the state, was the assumption that they'd go state-to-state, e.g., Georgia, Pennsylvania, etc. until they collected sufficient electoral votes?

[bearsfootball516]

3. Basically, yeah. Arizona was meant to get the ball rolling and get momentum

Then they could go to Georgia, flip it back, then Penn, etc.

[empedocles]

4. The Information Age can really turn over the rocks and see what these rotters are

trying to do.''

'The Process' keeps grinding along.

[Takket]

5. Billing rate and pay rate are not the same thing.

The article contends that people were “taking home” the amount “billed” but billing rate is what a company charges for your services and is not the same thing as what the company pays people.

Not trying to make excuses for the fraudit but facts matter and I think that should be clarified.

[yonder]

14. +1. Yes, two different animals there.

Before retiring, my multiplier was about 3 times my pay rate.

[Champp]

6. The Republican Party is corrupt to its stinking core

They routinely piss all over the principles of the book they claim they honor, The Bible. Shame. Deep, dark shame on them.

[kairos12]

7. Keep in mind.

Many of the communication between Ninjas and the Senate's Fann has not been released yet. She is still fighting it.

The truly crazy stuff is yet to be released.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Wonder if the churches are involved

All this conspiracy crap runs off little groups of neighbors involved in local chit-chat, the less educated the better to be a member.

[EleanorR]

10. Cleta Mitchell set up 1 million dollar escrow account to fund the fraudulent "recount"

Mitchell, who gained national attention for advising Trump during his January call to Georgia election officials in which he asked them to find votes in his favor, arranged for $1 million to be sent from the escrow account in late July to three subcontractors working under Cyber Ninjas, the Senate’s lead contractor.

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124458

Mitchell also participated in gerrymandering training where she advised folks to destroy evidence.

Link to tweet

[multigraincracker]

11. When will anyone from a major news source call out

the Re-publicans that spread fear about BLM and antifa violence. Just give a list of names and arrest of those members that have been arrested and charged. Has to be thousands and thousands of arrest. Then we can build a list of member of The Bottom 3 Percenters, the Stupid Not Poor Boys and the !938 Nazi Patroidiots that are charged and arrested.

Am I asking for too much?

[jaxexpat]

12. That last question was rhetorical; right?

[Hortensis]

15. Yup. They are. Those going along with them are the bigger danger. nt

[radical noodle]

16. Here's more info from American Oversight

https://www.americanoversight.org/arizona-senate-releases-audit-records-following-court-order

and no ads on this page, unlike vice.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. They really are a bunch of Nazi democracy stealing loons.

Arizona was meant to be their model for the rest of das Amerikkka.

[AZProgressive]

18. It sucks this went on in my home state

I just want to live in a state where my vote counts.

[MissMillie]

19. I guess this guy is part of the story too

GOP Election Truthers Tap a Failed Politician and Conspiracy Theorist for Sham Audit

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-election-truthers-tap-a-failed-politician-and-conspiracy-theorist-for-sham-audit/ar-AAOdmzl?li=BBnb7Kz

Never mind that the ballots had not been destroyed, or that Massachusetts officials upheld Ayyadurai’s loss. His claim of election fraud foreshadowed Trump’s own claims of election malfeasance later that year. Now Ayyadurai, who backs Trump’s election fraud claims, has been hired by Arizona’s Republican-controlled state senate to work on an ongoing “audit” of the 2020 presidential election this summer, despite election officials there already repeatedly confirming that Joe Biden won.

In a recent podcast, a former Trump official suggested that Ayyadurai’s services were also being sought by Wisconsin legislators for a similar audit in their own state.

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So this guy's not just involved in AZ, but is apparently being asked to help in WI as well.

Of course, the idea that Ayyadurai could win anything in MA is laughable. While there are sections of the state (including the area where I live) where there is support for The Former Guy, it just wasn't going to happen.

[Blue Owl]

20. Fuck that Nazi Slobfather