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cyber Ninjas' ties to Trump during Arizona election 'audit' revealed in messages

Ryan RandazzoRobert Anglen

Arizona Republic

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Jan. 26, 2023

Former President Donald Trump publicly kept his distance from the review of Maricopa County's 2020 election. But inside Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, his influence loomed over critical aspects of the "audit," according to messages sent and received by the man leading the ballot recount.

New records show Trump received direct updates from people at the coliseum, his allies pressured the lead contractor on when to report findings, and that contractor asked people close to the former president if he could help pay for it. This all happened as leaders of the state Senate publicly denied Trump had any involvement in their effort.

While messages from those working on the audit indicate they intentionally kept the president at arm's length to avoid the appearance of his influence, behind the scenes they sought Trump's approval — and money.

In April 2021, four days before the election review began, Cyber Ninjas founder Doug Logan used a private messaging system to discuss taking a donation from Trump and his team surreptitiously.

"I told them there was no way I could take funds directly," he said in the chat.

Once the audit concluded and the now-defunct Cyber Ninjas was millions of dollars in debt, Logan would lament that Trump never did directly fund his work.

"It's my understanding that our underfunded status is known all the way up to 45," Logan wrote to a subcontractor in a conversation about how to pay everyone. "Never talked with him, but I've been told the message has been received."

Presenters of the report on the election audit, from left, Ben Cotton, the founder of CyFIR, Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas and Randy Pullen, the audit spokesman, look on before the start of the presentation to the Arizona lawmakers in the Senate chambers of the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Sept. 24, 2021. David Wallace/The Republic

Logan has released tens of thousands of personal messages he sent to supporters and subcontractors involved in the audit in response to ongoing lawsuits from The Arizona Republic and a left-leaning watchdog group based in Washington, D.C., called American Oversight.

The messages reveal for the first time how Logan worked with Trump allies to help finance the work, shape media coverage and manage day-to-day operations as teams worked to hand count 2.1 million ballots cast by county voters.

Logan for months fought the release of his personal messages, which The Republic first sought through state Public Records Law. But after a $50,000-a-day sanction for noncompliance and exhausting all appeals, Logan’s lawyer has turned over many — but not all — text and Signal messages Logan sent and received while working on the audit.

Logan on Tuesday declined to comment on the pleas for money he made through extensive communication with Christina Bobb, a former Trump lawyer and conservative broadcaster who served as a go-between for the former president.

Arizona Senate Republicans hired Cyber Ninjas to recount and inspect ballots, and the so-called "audit" confirmed President Joe Biden’s win in the state and made no concrete findings of wrongdoing by election officials. But for months it served as a marketing tool for politicians who campaigned on unproven accusations that the election was compromised.

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Senate Republicans said from the outset that Trump did not push for the audit and did not provide any assistance for it, financial or otherwise.

Former Senate President Karen Fann, a Prescott Republican who hired Cyber Ninjas, repeatedly said the effort was not done to put Trump back in the White House.

"This absolutely has nothing to do with Trump," Fann wrote in an email to a constituent days after the audit began in 2021. "The election cannot be overturned. This audit is ONLY about election integrity, answering their questions, and hopefully proving there was nothing wrong with the election."

She reacted with surprise Jan. 19 to the newly released messages when contacted about them by a reporter. When the audit began, she said, she did not know the extent to which Trump allies were involved.

"I did not know," she said. "Since then I have now connected the dots. ... Obviously, in the subsequent months, it was very apparent."

Trump was watching, chatting with broadcaster

Several references in Logan’s messages indicate people in Trump’s circle were closely watching Maricopa County and reporting back to the former president, who they sometimes referred to as “45.” Trump was the nation's 45th president.

Logan in the messages discussed Trump’s interest in the work with Bobb, who was given broad access to the election review while working as a personality for the right-wing OAN Network.

Former One America News Network anchor Christina Bobb speaks at a Blake Masters election integrity event on April 30, 2022, in Chandler. Megan Mendoza/The Republic

Bobb worked in the Trump administration as an appointee in the Department of Homeland Security. She left in early 2020 to join OAN. But after Trump lost the 2020 election, Bobb volunteered to help his legal team challenge the results and was with his team until the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to her testimony to the congressional committee that investigated the attack.

Shortly after Trump's loss, she helped coordinate a meeting in Arizona at which Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani suggested the election was compromised.

Bobb continued to work as a personality for OAN and began covering the Arizona audit, where she messaged frequently with Logan. She also helped raise money for the audit through her connections to Trump and his organization.

Other media were restricted to a small press box in Veterans Memorial Coliseum — when they could get into the building at all.

Bobb at one point told Logan she would ask the Trump organization for recommendations for a lawyer to help with the audit because Logan didn't like the lawyer recommended to him at the time.

On June 19, 2021, Logan asked Bobb if Trump would pressure Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward to donate some of the money she was raising off the audit to the actual work, which he said she had not done. Bobb said Trump liked Ward because she was an "outspoken media personality" and was unlikely to push her to fund the audit.

In this series of messages, Doug Logan talks about audit funding with Christina Bobb. Logan, founder of Cyber Ninjas, turned over tens of thousands of personal messages in response to lawsuits. Text Messages Provided To Arizona Senate By Doug Logan

Logan followed up, asking if Trump could press people to donate to the nonprofits set up to fund the audit.

"I will ask him. He shies away from publicly supporting the audit. I will raise the money issue with him next time we talk," Bobb responded.

Then on June 25, Bobb discussed funding with Logan, telling him that a wire would come from “Sidney" from Defending the Republic. Trump lawyer Sidney Powell raised money after his loss through a nonprofit by that name.

“I reached out to her and she didn’t take my call. I’ll try again. If she doesn’t answer, I’ll have Trump call,” Bobb wrote to Logan.

Months later, Logan would report that Powell's group donated $550,000 to his work.

Bobb said in a recent interview with The Republic that she didn’t officially join the Trump team until April 2022. But she did communicate with Trump about the audit.

“I knew that he was very interested in the audit,” she said. “I was never officially communicating anything on behalf of anybody.”

Often, Trump just wanted more detail than what she had shared in her news stories, Bobb said.

She said she never received funding for the audit from Trump or any organization affiliated with him.

“He was not involved in funding. I did ask. It was a no,” she said.

Messages sought updates on counting, funding

In May 2021, as the work passed the one-month mark, Logan messaged with a man named Patrick Weaver who worked on the audit. Weaver was affiliated with The America Project, one of the groups that funded Logan’s work beyond the $150,000 paid by the state.

“Any total count numbers you can give me for Abby to give to Trump?” Weaver wrote to Logan on May 25, 2021. The identity of "Abby" is unclear.

In this message, Patrick Weaver asks Doug Logan for an audit update to provide Donald Trump. Logan, founder of Cyber Ninjas, turned over tens of thousands of personal messages in response to lawsuits. Text Messages Provided To Arizona Senate By Doug Logan

Logan responded with an update on the counting.

In July, Logan messaged with Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who worked with President Trump’s chief of staff after his 2020 defeat to concoct ways Trump might stay in office.Waldron said Trump had planned to send $1 million to the audit, but Logan said he had not received it.“Payment – 1 mil – supposedly Kurt talked to trump and they got 1 mil for you,” Waldron wrote to Logan. The identity of "Kurt" is unclear.

How we got here:An Arizona election audit timeline

Fann unaware of some connections to Trump

Fann acknowledged that Bobb and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani "called several times" before the audit began as part of an effort to call the election into question. But said she did not "know anything else that was going on in the background" of the ballot count.

Arizona needed the audit to assure voters there was no chicanery in the numbers, Fann said.

"My job was to make sure we had an honest election in Arizona," she said.

She confirmed Trump called her "a couple of times" to discuss the audit as it unfolded. She said she didn't recall him trying to exert influence over the process, but rather he asked about it.

"He told me, 'Thank you for doing this,'" she said.

Even as Bobb reported on and raised funds for the election review — and her network was selected to livestream camera footage from the coliseum — Fann said she believed Bobb was acting only in her capacity as a news host, not a Trump surrogate.

Senate President Karen Fann takes notes with a pen during a meeting about the audit the Arizona State Senate in Phoenix on July 15, 2021. Joseph Cooke/The Republic

'Is God really going to come through?'

Logan's lawyer has redacted several messages between him and Bobb sent during this time, despite clear orders from Arizona courts to turn over everything. Still, some of the unredacted messages show Bobb held out her connection to Trump as a way to influence Logan, who was desperate for money.

"Is God really going to come through in funding this thing?" Logan wrote to Bobb on June 26, 2021.

She replied: "I don't know what he's going to do, but I know in the end we win. I don't know how we get there. But yes, in the end it will all workout."

Logan told her that day he needed about $4.8 million more to complete the audit.

"I'll raise with 45 again next time we talk," Bobb replied.

The next day, Bobb messaged Logan asking if the Senate would issue a news release with his preliminary findings. Contractors had finished counting and inspecting ballots at the coliseum a few days before. It would be months before Logan made a final report.

"I'm getting a lot of concerned people calling me saying the audit will lose credibility if there isn't some type of announcement tomorrow," she wrote.

In this text message, Christina Bobb asks Doug Logan about a potential announcement about the audit. Text Messages Provided To Arizona Senate By Doug Logan

Logan didn't want to issue preliminary findings. He pushed back.

"That wouldn't be the case if there wasn't so much fake news that a number was expected tomorrow," he told the reporter.

Bobb lashed out.

"I strongly suggest you don't blame me for fake news," Bobb wrote. "I STRONGLY suggest that."

Bobb didn't pretend to be an independent observer about the ballot review.

"Remember we're on the same side," she wrote to Logan. "If you want to fight me, we both will lose."

Bobb said in an interview Jan. 19 she was pressuring Logan as a reporter, not on behalf of Trump.

“They needed to release the numbers. I remember that,” Bobb said. “I was holding him to the same standard that I was holding the election officials. Why don’t we have a result on election night? My personal opinion is when you are done counting, if you don’t release the numbers that looks sketchy. I’m not accusing anybody of doing anything wrong, but it raises a lot of questions.”

Asked whether she thought Logan did a good job on his final report, she said, “I don’t have a comment on that. I like Doug Logan. I think he’s great.”

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Fann: 'We did not do this for Trump'

Fann sought to distance herself from Logan's fundraising efforts. She said it was clear when Logan said he needed to raise up to $5 million to pay for the audit that the money wasn't going to come from the Senate.

She said she did not know about any outreach to Trump or any other potential sources. Fann said her involvement with finances stopped with the Senate's authorization of audit expenses, which included $150,000 for Cyber Ninjas.

The audit has cost taxpayers so far about $5 million, the bulk of which came from Maricopa County. That includes legal fees it spent fighting with the Senate over access to voting information and the cost of new tabulation machines needed once the audit was completed.

Fann said the Senate's audit was a way to stand up for voters.

"We did this to do the right thing," she said. "We did this to answer questions. We did not do this for Trump."

Republic reporter Justin Price contributed to this article.

Reach reporter Ryan Randazzo at ryan.randazzo@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4331. Follow him on Twitter @UtilityReporter.

Reach reporter Robert Anglen atrobert.anglen@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8694. Follow him on Twitter @robertanglen.

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April 15, 2026, edition of Newsmax's *Carl Higbie: Frontline

CARL HIGBIE (HOST): Look, Democrats spent years weaponizing the FISA court, this is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. They used it to spy on Trump. They used it to push the Russian collusion hoax and try to destroy him. This is what Mike Flynn got caught up in, too.

Well, now, with the program about to expire, Trump's summoning the GOP holdouts to the White House, telling Republicans to, quote, stick together and pass a clean extension our military needs. I'm shocked to hear this.

President Trump posted on Truth Social, in part, while parts of the FISA were illegally and unfortunately used against me in the Democrats' disgraceful witch hunt and attack in the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, and perhaps it would be used against me in the future, I am willing to risk the giving up of my rights and privileges as a citizen for our great military and country.

Respectfully, Mr. President, I am not. And if you recall too, Mike Johnson, our speaker of the House, he campaigned against FISA when he was a congressman because nobody's ever been held accountable for the violations of it. That's why I'm not willing to see this renewed. Newsmax legal analyst Jay Town, and attorney at Judicial Watch, and author of the fantastic book Defiant, Christina Bobb. Christina, you've been in the middle of this for a while. I am — I was like floored by this.

CHRISTINA BOBB (GUEST): I was floored as well. FISA comes up for renewal every two years and every two years conservatives are saying kill it, kill it, kill it. In April of 2024, exactly two years ago today, President Trump put out on Truth Social, kill FISA. He explained that FISA is bad. MAGA was like kill FISA. And then the first chance he gets in office, he's trying to renew it. So no, this is bad. I think any Republican that tries to renew this needs to either be primaried or just flat out vote Democrat. This is anti-American. This is terrible for our country.

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October 15, 2024, edition of the Steak for Breakfastpodcast

CHRISTINA BOBB (GUEST): But if we learned anything from 2020 the lesson is we don't know what the heck they do on Election Day, right? They come up with something crazy. And we have to be, we, not just the RNC or the conservative party, but Americans, you have to be flexible and you have to be willing to see this through until Donald Trump is actually declared the winner because they're going to try to cause – I genuinely believe he wins this election like lawfully, legally, on election night, you know, the correct way.

And I think they're going do everything they can to try to call that into question and challenge it and just create as much turmoil and chaos around his victory as possible. And so Americans really need to be prepared to stand their ground and not give up any ground to the fact that no, we just won this election outright just because you couldn't get enough people to cheat on your behalf, you can't steal our victory.

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I think the celebrities that aren't owned by the establishment are probably more likely to speak out now because they have the same concerns that you and I have. I also think there might be a little bit of the Diddy effect where they want to be like, I'm not a pedophile, you know, like I'm not part of that camp. So it's a little bit more socially acceptable because the left is so evil and I don't know what other word to use other than flat out demonic at this point with the fact that they want to normalize pedophilia.

They want to make pedophiles basically a type of protected class. I don't mean that in the legal sense of the word, I just mean, you know, protecting pedophile rights or whatever the heck they're going after. All of the weird transgender stuff that they're doing and then you have the, these, the Diddy case, the Epstein list, and everybody knows, everybody knows that it's the Democrat supporters that are protecting that Epstein list and are quite honestly protecting the Diddy list because it's in the Biden Department of Justice that has that evidence right now, they're the ones that raided that place.

So everybody knows that they're a bunch of Democrats. And so, and if you're not currently owned by the establishment in Hollywood and you want to make sure everybody knows you're not a pedophile the easy way to do that is be like, I'm conservative now. I support Donald Trump. So I think there's a lot of weird, weird things going on behind the scenes that we probably can't see. I hope they all break the surface so that we just get this cleansing in our nation and we can clean out the filth. But I think there's a lot of things going on behind the scenes in many industries that we're not seeing.

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Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mark Meadows and several others were indicted in an election interference case in Arizona. Credit...Sophie Park for The New York Times

Danny HakimMaggie Haberman

By Danny Hakim and Maggie Haberman

Published April 24, 2024

Updated April 25, 2024, 9:33 a.m. ET

Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and a number of others who advised Donald J. Trump during the 2020 election were indicted in Arizona on Wednesday, along with all of the fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump’s behalf there to try to keep him in power despite his loss in the state.

Boris Epshteyn, one of Mr. Trump’s top legal strategists, was also among those indicted, a complication for Mr. Trump’s defense in the criminal trial that began this week in Manhattan over hush money payments made to a porn star, Stormy Daniels.

The indictment includes conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges, related to alleged attempts by the defendants to change the 2020 election results. Arizona is the fourth swing state to bring an elections case involving the activities of the Trump campaign in 2020, but only the second after Georgia to go beyond the fake electors whom the campaign deployed in swing states lost by Mr. Trump.

The former president, who is seeking another term, was also named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Arizona case.

“I understand for some of you today didn’t come fast enough, and I know I’ll be criticized by others for conducting this investigation at all,” Kris Mayes, Arizona’s Democratic attorney general, said in a recorded statement. “But as I have stated before and will say here again today, I will not allow American democracy to be undermined. It’s too important.”

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Read the Arizona Election Indictment

Arizona on Wednesday indicted Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mark Meadows and a number of others who advised Donald J. Trump during the 2020 election, as well as the fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump’s behalf to try to keep him in power despite his loss in the state. Here is the indictment.

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Mr. Giuliani is Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer; Mr. Meadows was the White House chief of staff at the time of the 2020 election. They were among a number of defendants whose names were redacted from the indictment, though it was clear from the context and the descriptions who they were. For example, the passage referencing Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, said among other things that he was known as “the mayor.”

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Some parts of the indictment did not refer to Mr. Trump by name, instead referring to the “defendants’ attempts to declare Unindicted Coconspirator 1 and Pence the winners of the 2020 Presidential Election.”

Also indicted were Mike Roman, a Trump campaign operative in 2020, John Eastman, an architect of the fake electors plan, and two other lawyers who advised Mr. Trump and his 2020 campaign: Jenna Ellis and Christina Bobb.

The indictment lays out a series of alleged efforts by the defendants to overturn Arizona’s election results. They are accused of pressuring “officials responsible for certifying election results to encourage them to change the election results,” including the governor, the legislature and the Maricopa Board of Supervisors.

In all, 35 people who acted as fake electors in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and now Arizona face criminal charges for signing certificates in 2020 falsely stating that Mr. Trump had won their state’s electoral votes.

Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Roman and Mr. Eastman now face charges in two states, Georgia and Arizona. Ms. Ellis has already pleaded guilty to a felony in Georgia.

Among those charged in Arizona are some who served as top Republican Party officials there during the 2020 election, including Kelli Ward, a former state party chairwoman, and Greg Safsten, who at the time was executive director of the state party. Two state senators, Anthony Kern and Jake Hoffman, now also face charges.

Some of the people who held themselves out to be Trump electors in states that he lost in 2020 have adamantly insisted that they were acting legally. After Dr. Ward and other fake electors gathered in Phoenix that December, she wrote in a social media post that “we are the electors who represent the legal voters of Arizona!” As recently as late last year, Mr. Kern said that “there’s no such thing as fake electors.”

Late Wednesday, Charles Burnham, a lawyer for Mr. Eastman, said: “The phenomenon of partisan lawfare grows more troubling by the day. Professor Eastman is innocent of criminal conduct in Arizona or any other place and will fight these charges as he has all the other unjust accusations leveled against him.”

Ted Goodman, a spokesman for Mr. Giuliani, said: “The continued weaponization of our justice system should concern every American as it does permanent, irrevocable harm to the country.”

Mr. Hoffman said in a social media post that he was “innocent of any crime,” adding that “I will vigorously defend myself, and I look forward to the day when I am vindicated of this disgusting political persecution.”

Mr. Epshteyn was a constant presence during Mr. Trump’s civil trial in January on charges that he had defamed the New York writer E. Jean Carroll. He joined Mr. Trump at the defense table when Mr. Trump’s lawyer in the case went to the bench for sidebars.

But Mr. Epshteyn has not been in New York for the current criminal case. He has described himself as an “in-house counsel” to Mr. Trump and has been something of a quarterback for the various legal teams working on the former president’s defenses in four criminal cases. He usually speaks with Mr. Trump several times a day.

Mr. Epshteyn has been arrested twice in Arizona over the last 10 years, once in 2014 for assault after a bar fight, in which he pleaded guilty and the conviction was set aside, and again in 2021, after he was accused of inappropriately touching two women. In that case, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, received probation and a fine, and the conviction again was set aside.

Mr. Epshteyn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Election deniers have not fared well at the polls in Arizona, but they maintain a grip on the state’s Republican Party. In January, the party installed a hard-right Trump supporter, Gina Swoboda, as its new leader; Ms. Swoboda runs a nonprofit group that has falsely claimed to have found huge discrepancies in voting records in a number of states. Kari Lake, a fervent backer of Mr. Trump and his false election claims, was the party’s candidate for governor in 2022 (she lost) and is the leading Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat this year.

The Arizona Republican Party, in a statement, called the indictment “a blatant and unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial power, aimed solely at distracting the public” ahead of the 2024 election.

The United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Monday that challenged the state’s electronic voting machines. The case was brought by Ms. Lake and Mark Finchem, who lost a 2022 race for Arizona secretary of state.

Having slates of people claiming to be electors for Mr. Trump was an integral part of the effort to keep him in office after his loss at the polls in 2020. Mr. Trump and his allies sought to block or delay congressional certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory, hoping that Mr. Trump’s allies in the House and Senate might then consider a challenge to the validity of the results in a number of battleground states like Arizona and Michigan — and then accept the pro-Trump electors from those states as valid.

In addition to the state cases, Mr. Trump is facing election interference charges himself in the Georgia case and in a federal case brought by Jack Smith, the special prosecutor appointed by the Department of Justice.

Mr. Trump has long made a strategy of falsely claiming election fraud. After he was defeated in the 2016 Iowa caucus, he said that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the winner of that contest, “illegally stole it.” And after Mr. Trump received fewer votes nationwide in 2016 than Hillary Clinton did, he said that he had actually won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”

Faced with criminal charges in the state elections inquiries, some of Mr. Trump’s allies and advisers have backtracked from his 2020 claims.

“Biden was elected, the process was followed,” Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of the fake elector plan, told investigators in Michigan last year. Mr. Chesebro has emerged as a key witness in the state prosecutions.

James Renner, a former Michigan state trooper who was a last-minute substitution as a fake elector in that state, expressed regret last year to investigators, saying that he “had been walked into a situation that I shouldn’t have ever been involved in.” Charges against him were dropped as part of a cooperation agreement with the office of Dana Nessel, Michigan’s attorney general, a Democrat.

Richard Fausset, Alan Feuer, Jonathan Swan and Benjamin Protess contributed reporting.

Danny Hakim is a reporter on the Investigations team at The Times, focused primarily on politics. More about Danny Hakim

Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent reporting on the 2024 presidential campaign, down ballot races across the country and the investigations into former President Donald J. Trump. More about Maggie Haberman

A version of this article appears in print on April 25, 2024, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition

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Bobb, the former Trump staffer turned-OAN host turned-Trump attorney, has built her public profile by promulgating a vast array of 2020 election conspiracy theories. Bobb’s stalwart devotion endeared her to Trump, and after he effectively took over the Republican National Committee in March, her loyalty was rewarded with an appointment to RNC senior counsel for election integrity.

For a man as obsessed with the 2020 election as Trump, Bobb is a natural fit to help lead the RNC’s so-called election integrity efforts. She was involved in the Trump campaign’s fake electors scheme to usurp the Electoral College, and is frequently named in litigation surrounding the 2020 election. Bobb covered the Arizona election audit on OAN while also helping to coordinate it behind the scenes. And she launched a coordinated push to enlist election-denying Trump supporters as poll workers — she even wrote a recent book about it, Stealing Your Vote.

Other than her tireless work undermining fair elections, the rest of Bobb’s beliefs read like a laundry list of right-wing misinformation. Describing herself as a “conspiracy theorist,” Bobb has also endorsed the great replacement theory, hyped fears of a second U.S. civil war, and, as an OAN host, spread a notable amount of anti-LGBTQ bigotry, particularly against trans people.

Bobb has appeared on a vast array of far-right podcasts and shows, including regular appearances on a show that also hosted antisemites and white nationalists, Coffee and a Mike.Bobb has also appeared alongside multiple QAnon influencers, several of whom were part of her election denial book tour.

Bobb’s extremist beliefs, her antidemocratic “election integrity” crusade, and her repeated appearance in legal documents alleging defamation related to the 2020 election make her a troubling fit for a role related to “election integrity.”

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Mr. Sibley. Christina, I don't think it's a problem to identify members of the 2 team, particularly those that are on the privilege log already as being disclosed, because 3 there may be communications with them that we have privilege. So their identities are 4 already out there. 5 6 Ms. Bobb. Okay. Mr. Sibley. I think you can identify, you know, members of the legal team and 7 members of, you know, anyone that was employed as an investigator or consulting expert 8 or something like that. 9 Ms. Bobb. Years ago, I would say I primarily did a lot of the investigating. Boris 10 and Jenna both did work. They also were primarily, you know, media focused. They 11 were very upfront doing television and interviews. Katherine Friess was part of 12 the -- she was part of the team. She did some work that I'm sure you guys are aware of. 13 I'm trying to think if there's anybody. Feel free to help me. 14 B 15 16 17 18 Q A Q A Yeah, of course. What about Bernie Kerik? Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. What was his role? I mean, he was investigating. We were ail investigating, right? Like it all 19 happened really fast. It wasn't like we created an org chart, you know. We just all kind 20 of chipped in how we could and were looking for information but, yeah, Bernie Kerik, you 21 know. 22 Phil Waldron. Sorry. I was trying to think of the lawyers but, yeah, there were 23 a handful of experts too. Phil Waldron was the primary expert I think that we relied on. 24 Q And I'll just stop you there. With respect to Mr. Waldron specifically, was 25 he engaged as an expert by the campaign, so far as you know?

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1 her own. She's not part of this team. 2 Yeah, I think -- sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you. 3 A Q No. I was just going to say, so is it your understanding that at least by that 4 point Ms. Powell was not a part of the Rudy Giuliani legal team for the campaign? 5 6 point. 7 8 9 10 A Q A Q A So initially I think it was a gray area. And then he made it very clear at one What about Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing? Yes. I'm sorry. They were working with Rudy as well. As part of the legal team? Yes. 11 Q And like I said, some of these names we'll get back to, but just to go through 12 the list while we are doing it, what about Cleta Mitchell? 13 A I didn't work her. I don't I think I had any communication with her but, yes, 14 I've heard her name, you know, in the environment.15 16 Q A What did you understand her role to be? She was working Georgia. Like I said, I didn't really work Georgia initially. 17 So I don't know that, but I --1 think she had something to do with Georgia. 18 Q And what about Ken -- I am going to mispronounce his name, Chesebro, 19 Chess bro? 20 A Yeah. I mean, I think he's doing cases now. I had no communication with 21 him whatsoever at the time, and I have no knowledge of his involvement, at least not -- I 22 mean, I know he's done stuff recently, but at the time frame you are talking about, I 23 wasn't even aware of his name. 24 25 Q A What about John Eastman, what was his role? He -- I mean, yeah, he provided counsel...Q Okay. So just functionally, what was the process like in the campaign for 2 receiving allegations about election fraud irregularities? 3 A So I -- I mean, I didn't work the campaign, right. I was just campaign legal. 4 And I would receive the information from the operations team. 5 6 Q A Who was the operations team as you understood it? I'm trying to think of who I got the affidavit from, probably Mike Roman, I 7 don't know. See, I was new. I didn't actually work the campaign, so I didn't know all of 8 the people. And so I would either ask Boris or Jenna or somebody like how do I get this 9 information. 10 So I was very new. I didn't know anybody there. And so I have very limited 11 information about that, but I remember -- I remember interacting a little bit withMike Romanat that point, but... 13 Q And so tell us about that. How would he get you information and what 14 kind of information would he get you? 15 A Is this not attorney work product? I don't like -- I mean, this was my 16 research and investigation as a lawyer? 17 Q Okay. But just the process generally, without getting into your 18 mental -- your thoughts, any conclusions you made, anything like that, just the process of 19 getting information? 20 21 A Q Like how did I get -- Let me ask I guess a slightly different question. Was there an intake 22 mechanism? I mean if somebody called from Nebraska and said I want to report that I 23 saw X, V, Z happen at the polling place, how does that information make it all the way up 24 to you? 25 A That's a great question. And I would love for you to ask the leaders at the RNC...

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r. Okay. If we can go to Exhibit Number 8, please. This is also a document that 11 you provided to us. Okay. 12 13 14 Very brief there, it's from someone named Mark Finchem to Lyle Rapacki? A Q 15 this email? 16 A Yup. And you. So, first things first, who is Mark Finchem, the person who sent Mark Finchem is a state representative in Arizona. You can see in his 17 signature block, Arizona House of Representatives. He is the representative for 18 Legislative District 11, based on his signature block. And he was also the one that 19 chaired the hearing in Arizona. 20 21 Q A And who is Lyle Rapacki? Lyle Rapacki, I don't know who he, like, his title or anything, but he was kind 22 of like the go-through for Finchem. 23 24 25 Q A Q Someone based in Arizona as opposed to Washington? Yeah. Exactly. Do you know if he was on Mr. Finchem's staff?...

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Q Correct. Okay. Do you remember calling Rusty Bowers or anybody else in the 16 Arizona legislature? 17 A I don't know. I mean, again, we are getting really close to attorney work 18 product. So I don't want to go too far down this lane without, you know, authority to 19 release the information. But I made a handful of phone calls, but once I got Mark 20 Finchem and he was interested and wanted to know what information we had, I kind of 21 let Finchem run with it because he was the legislator, and it was his authority. He could 22 do what he wants, and I wanted to support how I could support. 23 Q Understood. And I fully appreciate the concerns and don't want to tread 24 on them, but with respect to the legislators, I understand that they wouldn't be part of 25 the legal team or a client necessarily. So did you talk to Rusty Bowers specifically?

...Q 3 others? 4 A 56 I did not. Okay. How about others in the legislature? Do you remember talking to Yeah. I mean, since -- at the time, yes,I talked to Sonny Borrelli. I talked to Leo Biasiucci.Once Finchem wanted to, like, wanted to be the one to hear the 6 information, there was no need for me to continue to push. But once he started, once 7 Finchem started looking into it, I guess, there were others that wanted to be involved. 8 But I always -- I tried my best to kind of let Finchem do his thing because he was the state 9 legislator and that was his thing and I played a supporting role. 10 And since then I've gotten to know many Arizona legislators through my efforts. 11 So, yeah, I know a handful of them. 12 Q Okay. And just going back to that time though, specifically, when you had 13 that first or first few calls with Representative Finchem, what was the dynamic like? 14 Was he looking for information from you? Were you looking for information from him? 15 How was it working? 16 A We were just kind of like, hey, I've got concerns about the election; what 17 about you. And it was we just were talking like what can we do about it. And it's a 18 very novel issue, right. There will be law students that write papers about this in future 19 legal classes. 20 So we were just discussing it and trying to figure out what -- what does he have 21 authority to do, what's appropriate under the situation. And at the very least, I'm sure 22 he -- I'm sure we talked about information that he would want to see, you know, have 23 access to. It was very much like a hey, we both have a novel issue. Let's talk about it. 24 Q Do you remember discussing with him on those early conversations what 25 you described to us earlier that kind of plenary authority of state legislatures to --[ANTRIM DEPERNO]

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interference? Was it just that attention was focused elsewhere or was it that, you 2 know, there was these investigations weren't productive? 3 Ms. Bobb. I think there's plenty of evidence of domestic interference that we 4 don't even need to get to foreign interference. Maybe there's foreign interference too. 5 I don't know. But there's plenty of evidence of domestic problems so, you know, let's 6 focus on that first. 7 BY 8 Q All right. So we have up here Exhibit Number 10. This is just a cover 9 sheet. It's called Dominion Voting Systems. And then it's overview dated 12/2/20. 10 You scroll down there, it says, History, executives, vote manipulation, ability and 11 design, foreign ties, and Mrs. Friess's name is on there. 12 Have you ever seen this before? 13 14 A Q I've never seen it. Did you know thatMs. Friess was working on a report related to Dominion  voting machines?16 17 A Q I did not. There's some suggestion that Ms. Friess took over this report for somebody 18 else named Joanna Miller. Do you know who Joanna Miller is? 19 A I do know Joanna Miller. She at the time was like a 22-year-old aide to  Pete Navarro. There's no way that -- no. 21 Q What was her role with -- if anything, related to claims of fraud or looking 22 into allegations of improprieties related to the election? 23 A She helped Peter Navarro. I mean, she worked for him. And Peter put 24 out his three reports, whatever, and Joanna did a lot of research on that. And this could 25 be a compilation of Joanna's work. She's very smart and very capable

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taphorically, but I don't remember like an actual swap of anything. 2 Q Was it your understanding that she was helping Mr. Navarro compile this 3 report he was working on? 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 A Q A Q A Q A Q A When you said the report, you are talking about his three-part report? Correct. I believe Joanna worked on that, but I don't know. Did she tell you that? No. What about Garret Ziegler. Do you know who that is? I do. He also worked for Peter Navarro. What was your interactions with Mr. Ziegler, If any? Similar, similar to Joanna. They are young staffers who were, you know, 13 avid researchers doing research on stuff, and we talked. 14 15 Q A Tell us about this conversation. What did you guys talk about? Garret and Joanna are -- it's like they are interchangeable. They sat right 16 next to each other outside of Peter Navarro's office, and to the -- I don't have a specific 17 thing that I can say this was the exchange of information, but I -- I remember talking to 18 them. 71 19 Q Okay. And without getting into necessarily to the specifics or seeking from 20 you the exact information you gave to them, what was your understanding of what they 21 were doing with the information or the help that you were giving them? 22

A I don't know. I mean, same thing we were all doing, just trying to figure 23 out what happened. I didn't ask, hey, are you compiling a three-volume report on this, 24 like, I don't know. We were just talking. 25 Q And Mr. Navarro has said, I believe, that much of what he and his team 72 1 included in the Navarro -- the three-part Navarro Report came from Rudy's team. Is that 2 accurate so far as you understand it? 3 A Yeah. It could be. I mean, I don't know. I did not help compile Peter's 4 report. So I don't know what they did or how they got it. But I shared, like I -- I don't 5 have a specific recollection of this happening but, for example, what could have 6 happened is Joanna could have called me and said, hey, I am looking at this information. 7 Does this jibe with the information you have. And I would have said yes or no. 8 So I -- I did not know they were putting together a report. It was just we were 9 just trying to check and make sure that we were accurate in our work. 10 Q And who else from Mr. Giuliani's legal team was working with Ms. Miller or 11 Mr. Ziegler or Mr. Navarro? 12 A I think Katherine Friess did for a little while. I don't know. Katherine and I 13 actually did not work very closely together. She was, as you can tell, doing other things 14 than what I was doing. So I don't know what she did with Peter Navarro or not, but as 15 far as I know it was just Joanna and Garrett. 16 Q If we could pull up Exhibit Number 13. And while that's coming up, do you 17 know where Joanna and Garrett were getting their information from? 18 19 A Q Nope. Do you know where Mr. Navarro was getting the information that went into 20 the report from? 21 A No, but I think he cites his work, right? Doesn't he -- isn't it in the report? 22 Q So on this Exhibit Number 13, this is an email from Jenna Ellis to Jason Miller, 23 Tim Murtaugh, Ross Worthington, Vince Haley, and Mr. Giuliani. This is from December 24 7th. 25 A Okay.

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Okay. If we could pull up Exhibit Number 12, please. BY This is a document you provided to us. And it's a COMs alert from 4 @GOP.com to apparently to a mailing list about Dominion voting demands, Sidney Powell 5 retract baseless election claims. And then Jason Miller sends it to a number of people 6 saying flagging. 7 And you are on the recipient list of that email, and then you reply and say, Sounds 8 like they are sending these to everyone, and then asterisk, angry face. Do you 9 remember this email? 10 11 12 13 A Q A Q No. But it sounds like something I would say. Why reading it now and looking at it, why did you say angry face? I don't know. Can you show me what it was that they sent? Yup. We can scroll down to the bottom. It says that Dominion voting 14 systems sent a letter to former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell on Wednesday, 15 demanding that she retract her wild and knowingly baseless and false accusations about 16 the company's voting machines. 17 A Yeah. I can see it. So, I mean, I don't remember sending it. Obviously I 18 did, but I probably said the angry face because it's frustrating when you are 19 actually -- when you have leads and you have good evidence and you are following your 20 leads and you are trying to investigate and everyone's going, There's no evidence. 21 There's no evidence. Retract your wildly knowingly and baseless and false accusations. 22 That's not true. 23 That wildly knowing baseless and false accusations is not true. It's never been 24 true. I know the media said it, but we have information and apparently Sidney had -- I 25 don't know what Sidney had. You would have to ask her. But it's just frustrating to 75 1 have some -- you hear all the time, Oh, there's no evidence of fraud; there's no evidence 2 of fraud; there's no evidence of fraud. 3 There's a lot of evidence of fraud. There's a lot of evidence of fraud. And so to 4 have everyone, you know, send a note like this, or have Dominion send a note like this 5 that says retract your statement; no, I'm not going to retract my statement. What I said 6 is true. 7 I'm guessing. I don't know. But that's probably the sentiment that I had at the 8 time. 9 Q So if you look at the bullet points on here, this says, Specifically Powell's 10 claim that the company worked with Hugo Chavez, the late Venezuelan dictator and 11 employed machines with a vote-flipping algorithm; and then it says, The Trump campaign 12 announced in November that Powell is no longer working with President Trump or the 13 campaign after a wild press conference in which she said President Elect Biden won the 14 2020 election thanks to, quote, Communist money from the Venezuelan regime. 15 So are you saying -- you just mentioned that you thought that there was evidence 16 of claims related to this, and that might have been why you said angry face. Are you 17 aware of evidence that the legal team had for those two bullet points that I just read to 18 you? 19 A I don't know specifically, but I do know that I think it's Smartmatic, 20 Smartmatic is a Venezuelan company. And you'd have to -- I haven't -- again, I wasn't 21 researching Dominion. I wasn't researching Smartmatic. That was not my role. But I 22 do think there is -- I don't -- those claims, you know what, I don't know. I don't know. 23 There are -- there are pieces of evidence that, you know, those claims didn't come 24 out of thin air. I don't know what they are. I don't know the veracity, you know, the 25 extent to what they go, but I don't know. You'll have to ask her.

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...I don't remember anything about it, like if -- I don't know. I don't have any 2 recollection of it. 3 Q Are you aware of a phone call that John McEntee made to Chad Wolf about 4 possibly seizing voting machines? 5 6 A Q No. Are you aware of any effort to contact Attorney General Barr or anybody 7 else at the Department of Justice about seizing voting machines? 8 A I remember efforts to reach out to Attorney General Barr, but I do not 9 remember that about voting machines. 10 Q Could you repeat that? It was breaking up just little bit. You remember 11 what about outreach? 12 A Yeah. Sorry. It's breaking up on my end too. I remember efforts to 13 reach out to Attorney General Barr, but I don't remember them specifically being about 14 seizing voting machines. 15 16 17 18 Q A Q A Okay. Tell us about those efforts about outreach to Attorney General Barr? I know that they were trying to get a hold of him. That's all I know. Do you know why? No, like not specifically on the issue but, I mean, he was the Attorney 19 General of the United States, and there was concern that there was election fraud. So I 20 can guess, but no, I don't know. 21 22 Q A Who was involved in those efforts to reach Attorney General Barr? I remember at one point Rudy Giuliani wanted to speak with Bill Barr, tried 23 to reach out to him, and I don't think -- to my remembrance, he didn't get through, but I 24 don't know, you know, I wasn't with Rudy all the time. So I don't know if he eventually 25 got through.

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Q Okay. I'll show you something else to see if this helps refresh your 2 memory, Exhibit Number 24. This is also a document you produced, an exchange 3 between you and Representative Finchem that you then sent to Mr. Giuliani and Boris 4 Epshteyn. And it's a memo from Justice Martin and Phil Olson. 5 A Okay. 6 Q This is called: The Constitutional Duty of State Legislatures in a Contested 7 Presidential Election. 8 Do you know why Representative Finchem sent to this you? 9 10 11 12 A Q A Q No. Do you know who William Olson is? No. Do you know who Floyd Brown is, the person at the very beginning of this 13 email exchange? 14 A No. Am I supposed to know who these people are? 15 Q You tell me. I don't know. That's why we are asking. 16 [crosstalk] 17 A -- I don't know who these people are, and you are like they have been your 18 best friends since high school, and I'm like, oh, shoot, I forgot. No. I don't have any 19 recollection of who they are. 20 Q So in the cover email, Representative Finchem says that you can now release 21 this memo. 22 Were you expecting a memo to be able to release to the public or other people 23 about state legislatures and their role with respect to electors? 24 A I wasn't, and I didn't, like I didn't publish this anywhere. I just -- I think I 25 just forwarded it on, just so everyone received it, but no.

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1 Rudy, I think Katherine was there. There may have been one other person there, but we 2 listened in on the call from Meadows' office. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Q A Q A Q A Had you met him before that? No. I don't think so. Do you remember -- go ahead. I'm sorry. No. I don't think -- I think that was the first time I met him. Do you remember talking to him before that, even if not in person? No. I never did. Q When you gathered for that call, what was his expectations for the call? 10 What was the purpose of that call? 11 A I think to listen and, you know, be available as needed, but I think the whole 12 point was just to listen. 13 Q Did he say anything about what the President was or was not going to 14 request or seek by this call? 15 16 17 call? 18 A Q A No. Do you remember if Mr. Meadows expressed any concerns about having this No. I don't think he did, but I don't remember, but I don't remember him 19 expressing any concerns. 20 Q Were you able to hear the call that the President had with Secretary 21 Raffensperger? 22 23 A Yes. Q What happened afterwards, when you were sitting there and, you know, the 24 phone is hung up now? 25 A Nothing. We chit-chatted and left. It was -- it was an unremarkable call. 109 1 I know the media has sensationalized it, but none of us thought anything of it. It was 2 just a call and that was it. 3 Q I mean, the President of the United States asked the Secretary of State to 4 find enough folks to ensure his victory in Georgia. I mean, he used those words, I'm just 5 asking you to find votes. 6 A That is a gross misrepresentation of the phone call. It was a perfectly fine 7 phone call. If you look at the transcript, he was not asking anything improper. He 8 wasn't asking him to do anything illegal. 9 There was a lot of indicators of fraud. That's what he was talking about. He 10 was not -- nobody in the room thought there was anything wrong with the phone call. 11 think it was perfectly fine. 12

Q So I understand your perspective, but I did want to ask you that, what you 13 just got to is that after the call, did anybody express any concern, reservation, have any 14 thoughts about what had just happened in that call? 15 A No. But there were a lot of people on the call. Like there were probably 16 at least two dozen, like there was, you know, half a dozen of us in the room, but then 17 there were other -- there were a lot of other people on the call. 18We knew somebody was going to record it. We knew somebody was going to 19 release it. We knew the media was going to twist it, which was exactly what happened,  but nobody was concerned about it. Our concern was, was it a legitimate phone call 21 and did the President say anything improper. And at the end of the call, we all thought 22 no. Like it was totally fine. There was nothing wrong with it. So we didn't think 23 anything of it, and we chit-chatted and left. 24 Q What about the call in advance made you think that it was going to be 25 recorded and leaked?

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Q A Q This is Exhibit Number 34. This is a text message that Representative Hice 4 sent to Mark Meadowson December 22 following apparently a meeting on the 21st. 5 Representative Hice says, Three quick things: Thanks for making the meeting happen 6 yesterday. I thought it was productive. When Rudy says he needs one more thing 7 from Georgia, what does he mean. I'm reaching out to Georgia folks for help, but need 8 more specifics. Who can I contact on Rudy's team. 9 10 11 12 Hice? 13 Q A And you can take that down now. BY Do you know or did you ever have any communications with Representative Not at that time. I have interviewed him as a journalist like April, May, 14 June, time frame, but no, I did not know him at the time. 15 Q And at that period, so December 22 was the message, but around that time 16 do you know if Mr. Giuliani had any desires, what the one more thing he wanted to get 17 out of Georgia was? 18 19 A Q No idea. Another person who has mentioned meetings with Mr. Giuliani includes 20 then Representative Elect Marjorie Taylor Greene. 21 Did you have any interactions with her or her staff related to the election? 22 23 A Q Never. All right. If you can pull up Exhibit Number 36. This is not a document 24 that you provided to us.

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Q A Q Do you know where Ms. Friess lives these days? No idea. You haven't been in contact with her since January 2021? 1 2 A Q 147 Nope. All right. I understand that on January the 4th, yeah, on January 4th, I 3 understand there's a meeting with Cleta Mitchell and staff members working for Senators 4 Holly, McConnell and Cruz about evidence of election fraud in Georgia. 5 Do you know anything about that meeting? 6 7 A Nope. Can I ask a question really quickly. On the email that we just 8 discussed from Ms. Friess transmitting the draft memos for Senator Graham, it looks like 9 she sent it to Mr. Bannon as well. Do you know why he would have been copied on 10 that? 11 12 13 Ms. Bobb. No idea. BY Q Okay. We can go to Exhibit Number 44. For that page 2, this is an email, 14 you did not provide this Ms. Bobb, but this is an email from Boris Epshteyn. It says, Per 15 Mayor Giuliani, attached please find following info: The first is the bullet point overview 16 numbers of interest; the second is a substantive analysis; the third is Peter Navarro's first 17 report. Thank you, Boris. 18 And that was sent to Jason Miller, Ali Pardo, and Tim Murtaugh. And then 19 Mr. Miller sends it to Marc Short who is the chief of staff for Vice President Pence at the 20 time. 21 Are you familiar with any effort to develop like briefing materials or information 22 for members of Congress ahead of the January 6 joint session? 23 A No. But that -- I don't know. I have no background. I had nothing to do 24 with this, but reading this email I don't think it's a briefing memo. I think it's going to 25 the Corns team. Jason Miller and Tim Murtaugh are corns. I think Boris is sending it t

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Q And what was happening at that time? This was after the attack on the 4 Capitol had started. What was going on inside the room? 152 5 A Nothing. Everybody was just watching the news and eating and trying to, 6 like, some rando talked his way in for a few minutes and security escorted him out. 7 There's nothing happening. 8 9 Q A Were people making calls to members of Congress in that period from the -- No. No. By 1:00 or 2:00, by the time I got there everything was like, I 10 mean, everything that happened at the Capitol was a huge disappointment and 11 everybody was upset about it. So, no, nobody was doing anything. Everyone was just 12 kind of sad. 13 14 Q A Huge disappointment in what sense? It was a huge disappointment in the sense that, I mean, in every sense of the 15 word: One, the fact that there was violence at the Capitol; Two, the fact that to some 16 extent there -- I believe they were framing Trump supporters. 17 I was there. I was at the Capitol on January 6. I reported from Cannon. I was 18 standing in the grass and I watched what happened. The -- the level of violence or 19 activity was small, very small in comparison to the number of law enforcement that were 20 there. You know, military -- I was a judge advocate in the United States Marine Corps. 21 I'm very versed in the use of force and the escalation of force, and I know what law 22 enforcement -- not only do I know what law enforcement can and can't do, but my job 23 when I was deployed to Afghanistan was partially was to train our military on how to use 24 the escalation of force in urban settings. And they should have been very, very easy to 25 quelch the uprising or whatever it was that we saw. 153 1

And the vast majority of people that I saw there, the Trump supporters that I saw 2 there were trying to make it stop. I personally do not believe the Trump supporters 3 instigated January 6. And, I mean, it was just really disappointing that it looked like 4 President Trump supporters were getting framed. 5 I do believe they are being held as political prisoners. I think it's a shame and an 6 embarrassment to this nation what's happening to them. And especially considering 7 months before in -- I think it was May 2020, Black Lives Matter and Antifa assaulted the 8 White House. President Trump had to go to the bunker because they were breaching 9 enough to cause very serious security concerns. You have got Kamala Harris and a lot of 10 the liberal politicians saying, oh, get them out on bail. Get them out on bail. 11 They just attacked the White House. Then you have someone take a selfie in the 12 Capitol and they are incarcerated for over a year. I think it's disgusting, quite honestly. 13 So I think the way everything that happened and went down, it was a very sad day for 14 different reasons than the liberal narrative that we pushed, we were all saddened. 15

Q Understood. And I'm not here to challenge you on your beliefs, Ms. Bobb, 16 but have you seen the court documents for some of these cases of people who say that 17 they did this. They broke into the Capitol because they believed that Mr. Trump was 18 asking them to. Have you seen those documents? 19 A I've seen documents. I've also been a criminal -- I was a criminal defense 20 attorney in the Marine Corps. I'm very well aware of how those documents get created. 21 And I'm not -- don't get me wrong, I'm not in any way trying to absolve everyone of 22 responsibility. Certainly anybody who breaks the law should be held accountable. 23 I don't think solitary confinement for ten and a half months is a solution, but yet 24 it's happening. And I don't think starving people because they have dietary restrictions 25 and they have to be incarcerated in federal prison, I don't think that's appropriate.

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If this is a retweet, why did you think that January 6 would be -- if you did, 9 how is this relevant, the Patriot, Revolution 1776?Why was that relevant to what was 10 happening on January 6? 11 A Wow. Because from my perspective we had an illegal election. I believe 12 wholeheartedly that not just Democrats, I think it was Democrats in conjunction with -- I 13 think it was the swamp. The swamp rigged and stole the election and the American 14 people lost their voice. And so I think it's very appropriate to hope that President 15 Pence, Vice President Pence will send the votes back to the states, but I think as it stands I 16 think we are in a really bad spot as a country. I do. 17 Q And I hope you can appreciate this. I mean, one of the things we are 18 looking at is what happened in the Capitol, the violence at the Capitol. And so what you 19 retweeted here, if that's what this is, is an image of violence, of war, of 1776. 20

So did you think that violence was necessary or appropriate on January 6, 2021, 21 with respect to the joint session of Congress? 22 A I can't believe you are honestly asking me these questions. There's nothing  about my social media account that calls for violence or that asks for violence. I've  never done anything violent. I've never called for violence from anybody.  So the idea that I retweet a picture from The Patriot, if that's even in fact what

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 A So let me ask you this, because you are investigating the 12 violence -- supposed violence at the Capitol, right? Right? That's what you guys are 13 supposed to be doing. This is what this committee is for. 14 Q That's precisely right. We are looking into the events of the attack at the 15 Capitol? 16 A Then why aren't you looking into the police officers, and why aren't you 17 looking into the fact that they did not use the proper protocol for the use of force, the 18 escalation of force? Why aren't you looking into the fact that they opened the gates, 19 that they removed the barricades? 20 Why aren't you looking into the fact that the FBI had an informant and they are 21 instigating? Why aren't you looking into the fact who were those FBI informants and 22 what was federal law enforcement doing trying to instigate people to go into the Capitol? 23 Why aren't you looking at that? You are looking at my Twitter account that maybe or I 24 may or may not have retweeted some guy who writes in Greek. 25 Look at the actual facts of what happened. What happened was really 179 1 dangerous.

Why is it the Democrats refused the assistance that President Trump offered to reinforce with either National Guard or additional troops from DOD?Those 3 offers were turned down. Why? Why? 4 Like the -- it makes no sense. The stuff that happened at the Capitol could easily  be investigated, but like why are you only investigating conservatives? It's like why 6 aren't you looking into how did the violence of 2020 lead up to it. This is a completely 7 one-sided partisan investigation. It's disgusting. And there are people sitting in jail who do not deserve to be in jail because this is a political witch hunt.

Q Ms. Bobb, that's your perspective. We are just asking questions. We are 10 trying to get to the bottom of it, and you'll see what the committee did when all the 11 information comes out from the commit eventually but, you know, you are a witness, a 12 fact witness to certain events.

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Q Was Ms. Bobb performing work in anticipation of litigation at the direction 9 of an attorney for the Trump campaign? 10 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 11 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 12 Q Did Katherine Friess have an attorney-client relationship with the Trump 13 campaign? 14 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 15 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 16 Q Was Ms. Friess performing work in anticipation of litigation at the direction 17 of an attorney for the Trump campaign? 18 A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 19 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 20 Q Did Phil Waldron have an attorney-client relationship with the Trump 21 campaign?

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Final Jan. 6 Report Cites San Diego’s OAN, Peter Navarro andSDSU’s Christina Bobb

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Christina Bobb appears on Dan Ball’s show recently on One America News. Image via OAN.

San Diego’s One America News and ex-San Diego politico Peter Navarro are noted in the final report of the congressional panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Final report of Jan. 6 committee (PDF)

The 845-page report, released Thursday night, also cites testimony and emails mentioning Donald Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, a San Diego State University graduate.

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Bobb produced materials for the House select committee.* But Navarro, the Trump aide who repeatedly failed in runs for San Diego office, refused to cooperate with the select committee and was indicted for contempt of Congress.

In end notes, the Jan. 6 committee said it interviewed Bobb on April 21 — but her deposition wasn’t among those released this week.

Bobb, a former OAN correspondent facing civil suits over promoting stolen-election lies, spoke Monday on “Real America with Dan Ball.”

Asked about the four criminal referrals — which Ball called “insane charges” — Bobb said they were all about preventing Trump from running in 2024 “because he’s not approved by the political elite. He doesn’t play by their rules. And he wants to return power back to the American people.”

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“This is a show trial,” she said. “It’s trying to stir people up to believe that Donald Trump is somehow bad.”

She said Trump has a “very solid criminal defense team” in place.

“This has nothing to do with democracy or January 6th,” she said. “They tried this with the Impeachment Hoax 1 and the Impeachment Hoax 2 and the Russian Collusion Hoax. What hoax number are we on now?”

Click to see OAN segment featuring Christina Bobb.

The report said that less than two weeks after the election, President Trump pushed “Team Normal” aside because its members didn’t tell him what he wanted to hear.

“In their place, Trump promoted Rudy Giuliani and his associates — men and women who spread baseless and extreme claims of election fraud,” including Bobb, the report said.

But Bobb couldn’t point to any evidence of wrongdoing by Dominion Voting Systems — which is suing OAN, Fox News and others about airing lies about it “switching votes” to Joe Biden, the report said.

Arizona’s vote was a source of contention as well.

Trump retweeted a post by campaign lawyer Bobb that accused Arizona House Speaker Russell “Rusty” Bowers of “intentionally misleading the people of Arizona.”

San Diego-based OAN was cited as a conduit of stolen-election lies.

On Nov. 19, 2020, Trump tweeted and retweeted a link to a segment on OAN titled, “Dominion-izing the Vote.”

“The segment claimed that Dominion had switched votes from Trump to Biden.OAN featured a supposed cyber expert, Ron Watkins, a key figure in the QAnon conspiracy movement,” the report said.

“On his own Twitter account, Watkins celebrated and thanked his supporters just minutes after President Trump tweeted the clip, and President Trump went on to share the clip again several times in the days that followed.”

OAN executives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Though Navarro refused to cooperate with the committee, he referenced Steve Bannon’s “Green Bay Sweep” bid to overturn the election in his book “In Trump Time: A Journal of America’s Plague Year.”

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“Although he doesn’t fully explain in his book … how Bannon’s sweep was intended to work, Navarro writes that Vice President Pence was envisioned as the ‘quarterback’ who would “assert his constitutional power” to delay certification of the electoral vote Jan. 6, the report notes.

“Navarro writes that his own role was to ‘carefully document the fraud and myriad election irregularities,’ while Bannon’s “role was to figure out how to use this information — what he called the ‘receipts.’”

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The report says Navarro’s account helped explain why Trump and his loyalists became so fixated on Pence.

“They saw Vice President Pence as their last hope for keeping President Trump in office,” the report says. “Navarro writes of Pence’s supposed ‘betrayal.’ In a telling sentence, Navarro likens Vice President Pence to Brutus, a Roman politician and the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar.”

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On this cold, momentous day, I shiver as I think to myself, “January 6 will be either Mike Pence’s finest hour or the traitorous ‘Et tu, Brute?’ end of both his and Donald Trump’s political careers.

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The committee report outlines its case that Trump should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly riot.

The House of Representatives Select Committee also made public the transcripts of a number of its interviews and witness testimonies earlier on Thursday and on Wednesday.

The report is based on nearly 1,200 interviews over 18 months and hundreds of thousands of documents, as well as the rulings of more than 60 federal and state courts.

The report lists 17 specific findings, discusses the legal implications of actions by Trump and some of his associates and includes criminal referrals to the Justice Department of Trump and other individuals, according to an executive summary released earlier this week. It report also lists legislative recommendations to help avert another such attack.

OAN segment on House committee’s criminal referrals shows book by Christina Bobb. Image via OAN

On Monday, the committee asked federal prosecutors to charge the Republican former president with four crimes, including obstruction and insurrection, for what they said were efforts to overturn results of the November 2020 election and sparking the attack on the seat of government.

“Rather than honor his constitutional obligation to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed,’ President Trump instead plotted to overturn the election outcome,” the House panel had said earlier in a 160-page summary of its report.

In comments posted on his Truth Social network after the final report’s release, Trump called it “highly partisan” and a “witch hunt”. He said it failed to “study the reason for the (Jan. 6) protest, election fraud.”

The request by the Democratic-led panel to the Justice Department does not compel federal prosecutors to act, but marked the first time in history that Congress had referred a former president for criminal prosecution. Trump announced in November that he would run for president again.

Among the transcripts released on Wednesday and Thursday was one that showed a former lawyer for ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told her to “downplay” her knowledge of events leading to the Capitol riot, telling her “the less you remember, the better.”

Attorney Stefan Passantino advised Hutchinson in preparing for a February deposition before the panel to say that she could not recall certain events, she told the committee in September, according to the transcript of her testimony.

Trump gave a fiery speech to his supporters near the White House the morning of Jan. 6, and publicly chastised Pence for not going along with his plan to reject ballots cast for Democrat Joe Biden.

The former president then waited hours to make a public statement as thousands of his supporters raged through the Capitol, assaulting police and threatening to hang Pence.

The 2020 election results were being certified by Pence and lawmakers when the Capitol was attacked after weeks of false claims by Trump that he had won that election.

Updated at 10:17 a.m. Dec. 23, 2022

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It took a few weeks, but One America News Network is finally settled into a predictable reaction to the 2022 midterms: claiming more Democratic fraud. In OAN’s view, no state had it worse than Arizona, a state the network relentlessly targeted with election misinformation, and where voters rejected numerous Republican nominees favored by OAN.

In the immediate wake of the election, OAN figures appeared to urge caution despite voters reporting numerous difficulties on election day; continuing to support GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake but stopping short of declaring fraud. But after the race was called, the floodgates opened for OAN to once again wail about “the biggest experiment in election fraud ever perpetrated on the American public.”

Unlike the 2020 election, some OAN figures are exploring novel solutions to losing elections this time around, like mail-in voting and ballot collecting (also known as “harvesting,”) two concepts that expand voting access, but which OAN alleges allow Democrats to steal elections. The inherent incongruity suggests that OAN is not serious about growing democracy, but only in sniveling resentfully, still captured by a lie partly of its own making.

At first, OAN exercised some caution in its coverage of Arizona’s gubernatorial race, possibly not wanting to sow too much doubt in case the results led to Lake’s projected victory. The day after the election, In Focus host Addison Smith acknowledged Arizona voters’ complaints of long lines and bureaucratic confusion, but said that he’s “not blaming losses from Republicans on a lack of election integrity this time around. You know, all things considered -- we’ll see what happens in Arizona -- but all things considered, I think the races the Democrats won were won pretty fair and square, according to the evidence in front of us.”[vid]

as results began to suggest that Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs might win, hints of fraud crept into OAN’s coverage. Within a week of Smith’s apparent expression of trust in elections, In Focus hosted right-wing YouTuber Drew Berquist, who complained that “whether it’s cameras going down, or a pipe leak, or a this, or the machines, whatever the case might be,” there is always a problem on election day that “gives them ample time to do stuff, and then voila -- the lights come on, the cameras come back on, and we’ve lost the race.”

On November 14, major news networks projected Hobbs’ victory, the dam broke, and OAN began declaring fraud. Real America host Dan Ball said that he’s not calling the race (OAN doesn’t have a decision desk) until “we can confirm every single vote was a legitimate vote and not harvested from, oh I don’t know, people that aren’t registered in Arizona? Dead people? You know, the stuff that always happens in every election, but shhh, we don't talk about it.”

Lake “has not conceded” to “supposed Governor-elect'' Hobbs, Ball later said, “and I don’t think she should,” citing voters’ election day complaints as well as the razor-thin margin. “But that doesn’t matter” to the media, Ball lamented while discussing another close race, “because they’ve got to call [the election for] the Democrat. That’s what they do. That’s just how it goes.”

On November 17, OAN correspondent Pearson Sharp made the calls explicit; in his style reminiscent of a man in a truck, Sharp unequivocally declared that “the Democrats once again stole another election,” and Democratic victors like Arizona Governor-elect Hobbs “just carried out the biggest experiment in voter fraud ever perpetrated on the American public.” Sharp’s segment included video of random Arizonans using ballot drop boxes as he warned of “clearly illegal voting fraud.” (2000 Mules director Dinesh D’Souza is currently being sued for defamation over similar conduct.)

Echoing familiar themes to a far-right audience, Sharp pontificated that “the commiecrats used the pandemic as a backdoor to legalize all kinds of illegal voting practices, and now they can drag out an election for weeks, while they quietly fill in the votes wherever they need them.”[vid]

on November 19, soon after Sharp’s broadside, Attorney General Mark Brnovich -- a 2020 election denier and frequent OAN guest -- issued a letter demanding answers on reported voting issues from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. According to The Washington Post, the letter contains “no findings that would call the outcome into question,” but it did further fuel OAN’s newly revived desire to cry fraud.

OAN reporter Daniel Baldwin aired a segment featuring interview footage with Christina Bobb, the Trumpworld attorney who previously led OAN’s “election integrity” coverage, while also helping the Trump campaign’s fake elector scheme. On OAN, Bobb played up Brnovich’s letter as proof that Brnovich saw a “potential crime there, whether it was intentional conduct or criminal negligence, whatever it is … it was enough to actually publish the letter.” 

In a different Baldwin interview, Arizona State Sen. Wendy Rogers called for a “new election for 2022 for Maricopa County, there are no two ways about it.” Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward told Baldwin that “once again” Maricopa County “will be certifying an uncertifiable election. They did it in 2020, I think they plan to do it in 2022.” Ward also promised that “we are going through every single legal channel that is available and we are pushing forward to represent we, the people.”

Fittingly, Real America’s Ball injected a touch of inappropriate self-victimization to the frenzy. Ball compared election day issues in Arizona to anti-Black segregation using a clip from Free State of Jones, a 2016 movie starring Matthew McConaughey as a Confederate deserter who leads a rebellion against Confederate Mississippi -- in other words, fighting Democrats who would not allow Republicans to vote.

“Now this all happened hundreds of years ago, right?” Ball cheekily asked, “There’s no way that something like that could still happen today,” as though an unprecedented flood of election-day voting shares any similarities to Jim Crow.

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Interestingly, some OAN figures -- not all -- have mentioned a degree of openness to mail-in voting, thinking that Republicans could close future vote gaps. However, even this comes not from a place of humility or learning, but vengeance and paranoia. As Smith put it on November 30, either “we make ballot harvesting and mass mail-in voting illegal across-the-board … or we get so good at it ourselves that Democrats want to make it illegal.”

It was only a matter of time before OAN again reacted to a Republican defeat with allegations of election fraud: the network built its present identity out of such claims. OAN would have viewers believe that, in the same election where Democrats mastered the art of election theft, they also lost control of the House of Representatives, and therefore President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda. But perhaps allowing Republicans to block Democratic power for two years is also part of the Democrats’ plan to seize power.

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At least one member of former President Donald Trump's legal team has hired her own attorney — and allies are urging another to follow suit, according to The Washington Post.

Trump attorneys Christina Bobb and Evan Corcoran affirmed to the Justice Department that Trump had handed over all classified records from his Mar-a-Lago residence in response to a May subpoena. But prosecutors said their response was "incomplete" after the FBI searched and found more documents at Mar-a-Lago and cited evidence of "obstructive conduct" in response to the subpoena.

Bobb has since hired her own lawyer, Florida-based former prosecutor John Lauro, and "made it known to Trump allies that she is willing to cooperate and be interviewed by the Justice Department," according to the Post. And colleagues have similarly urged Corcoran to hire a criminal defense lawyer because of his response to the subpoena, according to the report, but he has insisted it is not necessary.

Asked if she was negotiating to sit for an interview with the DOJ, Bobb told the outlet, "I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to talk about it."

Bobb signed a document affirming that Trump handed over "all documents that are responsive to the subpoena" after a "diligent search." Corcoran then met with DOJ officials and made a similar statement. Investigators ultimately found more evidence that there were additional documents at Mar-a-Lago and secured a warrant to search the premises in August.

Bobb, a former OAN host who helped push Trump's legal challenges following the 2020 election, has insisted to Trump allies that she believes the document she signed was accurate, according to the Post. But she also told the pro-Trump Right Side Broadcasting Network that she was not acting as Trump's attorney while serving as a custodian of records when responding to the subpoena, according to the report, meaning that the DOJ could compel her testimony more easily than if she were acting as Trump's lawyer at the time.

"I think people were a little bit confused," Bobb said. "I am on President Trump's legal team. I do work for him on election issues. I was never on the legal team handling this case, just to be clear on that. Which is why I came in as the custodian of records — because I wasn't on that team."

Corcoran, who is referenced as Trump's attorney in court documents, has also been "counseled" by colleagues to lawyer up, according to the report. Trump hired Corcoran, who recently returned to practicing law, in April with no vetting after a single conference call while he was representing former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who was convicted of contempt of Congress earlier this year.

"Christina Bobb and Evan Corcoran need their own criminal lawyers," former DOJ inspector general Michael Bromwich tweeted, citing their "multiple misrepresentations" to the DOJ.

With his own attorneys facing potential legal jeopardy, Trump struggled to find an elite attorney willing to represent him in the case. Trump ultimately hired former Florida Solicitor General Chris Kise, who once represented a member of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro's administration, paying him a $3 million retainer from money donated to his super PAC.

Kise has advised Trump to "turn down the temperature" with the DOJ and fought with advisers who urged a more aggressive approach, according to the Post. Kise warned Trump's team that attacks were only likely to make the DOJ more aggressive and urged them to seek an "off-ramp" before a possible indictment, according to the report. He also argued that Trump's other lawyers, whom he said lacked experience with this type of case, had "deepened Trump's problems" and "could face legal trouble themselves," according to the Post.

Just weeks after joining Trump's legal team, CNN reported that he has already been sidelined. Though his name appeared on numerous court filings, he did not sign onto the Trump team's combative filing questioning the DOJ's motives last week. The Post reported that Kise is now unlikely to play a public role in the Mar-a-Lago case, though he will continue to help Trump deal with "his other legal problems."

Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich did not respond to questions from the Post.

"While the media wants to focus on gossip, the reality is these witch hunts are dividing and destroying our nation," he told the outlet. "And President Trump isn't going to back down."

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Donald Trump peddles conspiracy theory about FBI 'planting' evidence

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Igor Derysh and Salon August 10, 2022

President Donald Trump and his lawyers pushed a conspiracy theory that FBI agents may have "planted" incriminating evidence while executing a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

FBI agents on Monday executed a warrant at Trump's Palm Beach home, meaning that a judge found enough probable cause to approve the search. Agents investigating presidential documents that Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago, including classified materials, removed 12 boxes of items from Mar-a-Lago after Trump turned over 15 boxes of materials to the National Archives earlier this year, according to the Washington Post.Trump attorney Christina Bobb told the outlet that the search warrant indicated that the FBI is investigating possible violations of the Presidential Records Act and laws related to the handling of classified material. Trump has thus far refused to release his copy of the search warrant even though it could provide transparency on what agents were searching for.

Bobb said that she was not allowed to observe the search, as is common during such FBI operations. But Trump and his lawyers have seized on that fact to push a conspiracy theory that the FBI may have "planted" something without providing any evidence to support their claims.

"The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago," Trump said on his Twitter knockoff Truth Social. "Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing[CCTV?] , taking or, hopefully not, 'planting.' Why did they STRONGLY insist on having nobody watching them, everybody out? Obama and Clinton were never 'raided,' despite big disputes!"

Bobb, a former TV host at the right-wing outlet OAN who joined Trump's legal team, made a similar claim on Monday, citing only the fact that she was not allowed to observe the search.

"There is no security that something wasn't planted," Bobb said in an interview, adding, "I'm not saying that's what they did."

"At this point, I don't necessarily think that they would even go to the extent of trying to plant information, I think they just make stuff up and come up with whatever they wantand that's the way that they will have to proceed in order to actually try to indict the president because they don't have anything," she said.

Fellow Trump attorney Alina Habba told Fox News that she was also "concerned that they may have planted something. You know, at this point, who knows? I don't trust the government and that's a very frightening thing as an American."

Trump's right-wing allies have parroted this evidence-free claim to their followers.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., cited his distrust of the government to suggest that the FBI "may put something" in the boxes they removed from Mar-a-Lago to "entrap" Trump.

"I think there is an extremely high probability that the FBI planted 'evidence' against President Trump," tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. "Otherwise WHY would they NOT allow his attorneys or anyone watch them while they conducted their unprecedented raid? They know the consequences of an empty handed power move."

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and Trump ally Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, both discussed their belief that the FBI may have "planted evidence" on Kirk's show Monday.

Trump's defenders on Fox News have also echoed the claim.

"They could have easily negotiated the return of documents like that without guns and warrants. What the FBI is probably doing is planting evidence," Fox News host Jesse Watters said without any evidence. "We also have a hunch they doctored evidence to get the warrant."

Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt suggested that FBI agents may have dumped "backpacks" full of incriminating evidence at Mar-a-Lago.

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"His lawyer said they brought in backpacks, what was in those backpacks?" Earhardt said. "Did they bring those in to fill them up or did they have something in there?"

Agents raided Mar-a-Lago because they believed Trump did not turn over all classified information he had taken to his home, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump's lawyers had been in discussions with federal officials about the records for months. Trump attorneys in June showed investigators a basement room where boxes of materials were being stored. The Justice Department directed Trump's team to secure the room, prompting them to add a padlock to the door. It's unclear what triggered Monday's raid.

Legal experts pushed back on the claims. Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig called the idea that FBI agents "may" have planted evidence "ridiculous."

"How would anybody even know at this point?" he questioned. "If you're going to fabricate some accusation, at least wait until you might plausibly have a basis for it."

Former federal prosecutor Richard Signorelli condemned Trump's attorneys for pushing the claim.

"These are baseless lies but unfortunately will be believed by deranged, ignorant MAGA cult members," he tweeted.

Defense attorney Ken White noted that forbidding anyone from observing their searches is standard practice.

"Law enforcement does not let anyone, including lawyers, observe what they're doing during searches," he wrote. "They typically remove everyone from the searched area. This has always been the case. This is the latest 'it's an outrage when the typical happens to me.'"

Former federal prosecutor Michael Stern suggested that TrumpWorld is trotting out the claim because the FBI may have found damaging evidence at his home.

"I have written hundreds of search warrants. Lawyers and people whose homes are being search[ed] are routinely not present during the search," he wrote. "That Trump is now talking about 'planted' evidence means he knows there is something damning they found."

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/donald-trump-boasts-path-reinstatement/

Wisconsin State Supreme Court on Friday ruled 4-3 that drop boxes for absentee ballots were illegal and declared that President Joe Biden's victory over former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election was illegitimate.

Biden won the popular vote in the Badger State and was thusly awarded its 10 Electoral College votes.

The decision "has critical implications in the 2024 presidential race, in which Wisconsin will again be among a handful of battleground states,"noted the Associated Press.

READ MORE: [Boris Johnson couldn’t escape accountability – unlike Donald Trump: journalists

Tony Evers, Wisconsin's incumbent Democratic governor who is seeking reelection, condemned the court's transparently partisan opinion.

“Politicians should not be able to abuse their power to prevent eligible voters from casting their ballots or cheat by changing the rules just because they didn’t like the outcome of the last election,” he said. “Today’s decision is another in a long line of Wisconsin Republicans’ successes to make it harder for Wisconsinites to exercise their right to vote, to undermine our free, fair and secure elections, and to threaten our democracy.”

Justice Rebecca Bradley, who sided with the majority, asserted that the court was acting to prevent fraud, which she baselessly claimed had impacted the results of past contests – including the race in 2020.

“Thousands of votes have been cast via this unlawful method, thereby directly harming the Wisconsin voters,” Bradley wrote. “The illegality of these drop boxes weakens the people’s faith that the election produced an outcome reflective of their will. The Wisconsin voters, and all lawful voters, are injured when the institution charged with administering Wisconsin elections does not follow the law, leaving the results in question.”

READ MORE: [Right-winger wants January 6th hearings nixed 'out of respect' for Donald Trump 'mourning' Shinzo Abe shackleford]

Trump's attorney Christian Bobb expanded on this false narrative and went so far as to proclaim that the outcome of the 2020 election could be reversed.

"Joe Biden cheated, so they could either withdraw their electors or they could actually decide to award Trump electors, although I would anticipate they would just withdraw the electors," she said on the Right Side Broadcasting Network. "If that happens from three different states, three different resolutions go into Congress – and I'm sorry I'm sort of summarizing this, it's a complicated issue – but it would have to go into the US Congress whether they want to accept the resolutions, whether they want to act on them or not. So it's a complex issue that needs to be handled complexly by different state legislatures and the US Congress."

Bobb then suggested that if "many many elected officials" sign on, Team Trump's dream of overturning the 2020 election can be realized.

Bobb's hot take on RSBM motivated Trump on Saturday to boast on his Truth Social app that he will be president again if the GOP retakes Congress.

READ MORE: [Russian propagandists whine that 'the way we elected' Donald Trump is impossible in Great Britain

"The Wisconsin Supreme Court has just declared the 'Unlock' Boxes, or Ballot 'Stuffing' Boxes, to be ILLEGAL. Everybody knows what went on with the $417,000,000 that littleMark Zuckerberg 'INVESTED' in the corrupt 2020 Presidential Election, and that doesn’t even include the big Wisconsin Nursing Home Scandal where close to 100% of the residents voted (always is MUCH lower number). It’s now up to Robin Vosto do what everybody knows must be done. We need FAIR and HONEST Elections in our Country," Trump rambled.

"Other States are looking at, and studying, the amazing Wisconsin Supreme Court decision declaring Ballot Boxes ILLEGAL, and that decision includes the 2020 Presidential Election," he continued. "Speaker Robin Vos has a decision to make! Does Wisconsin RECLAIM the Electors, turn over the Election to the actual winner (by a lot!), or sit back and do nothing as our Country continues to go to HELL? Brave American Patriots already have a Resolution on the Floor!"

There is no mechanism in the Constitution that provides a framework for nullifying a duly completed and certified election, let alone installing a loser back into power. Even if Republicans retake control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the November midterms, impeaching and removing Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (requiring 67 Senators to agree) would hand the presidency to whomever the House Speaker is at that time. In theory, that person could tap Trump to be their veep and immediately resign, but the Senate would first have to approve of Trump's nomination.

Granted, Republicans could indeed drum up some cockamamy scheme to petition the right-wing United States Supreme Court to consider its position to oust Biden in exchange for Trump, in a manner similar to the North Carolina "independent legislature theory" case that the Court has agreed to hear in the fall session. Notably, the courts have so far thrown out Trump's challenges to the 2020 election, including his invocations of executive privilege to prevent evidence of his coup from surfacing.

READ MORE: Why Donald Trump may not 'need a mob' to steal the 2024 election: columnist

Nevertheless, one must contemplate the possibilities, no matter how implausible they seem. Is what Trump wants impossible? No. Is it far-fetched? Quite, although it is, without question, on par with this current timeline.

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As stridently as Fox News and Fox Business have supported former President Donald Trump, their competitors One America News and Newsmax TV have jumped through hoops to show that they are even more pro-Trump. OAN’s Christina Bobb, following the 2020 presidential election, went out of her way to promote bogus election conspiracy theories — and Bobb now finds herself facing a subpoena from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee on the January 6, 2021 insurrection.

MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson reported that the committee had subpoenaed six more people, all of them attorneys — including Bobb. Jackson told her colleague Garrett Haake that Bobb and five other attorneys subpoenaed are not “really household names” but were “all involved, the committee says, with, for example, the effort to seize voting machines, from the Trump Administration, in various states after 2020.”

In a March 1 press release, the committee said that Bobb “was reportedly involved in efforts to draft an executive order for then-President Trump that would have directed federal agencies to seize voting machines in numerous states and was present in the ‘war room’ of Rudy Giuliani’s legal team in the Willard Hotel on January 6th.”

The five other attorneys subpoenaed by Pelosi’s committee are Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesebro, Katherine Friess, Kurt Olsen and Phillip Kline. Haake noted that Mitchell was an “attorney involved in the Trump campaign” and helped with efforts to overturn the election results in Georgia.

Jackson noted, “These are subpoenas; they are not polite requests, right? These have the muscle of the law behind them, and these are also people who did not serve in the Trump Administration. So, any kind of claim to executive privilege would be, fair to say, flimsy at best.”

Haake, describing the six attorneys, told Jackson, “You can see the committee trying to tie up loose ends…. Each of these attorneys had some role to play either in drafting memos about seizing voting machines or talking to state legislators in a specific state…. It’s clear that the committee has been referred to these individuals based on documents they already have from someone else.”

OAN, also known as OANN, was sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems for promoting the false claim that Dominion helped Democrats steal the 2020 presidential election from Trump. In fact, the election was quite secure, and now-President Joe Biden enjoyed a decisive victory over Trump — winning 306 electoral votes and defeating him by more than 7 million in the popular vote. Recount after recount confirmed Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, Arizona and other key swing states.

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OAN's last months on DirecTV were a train wreck

Since DirecTV announced it was dropping the network, OAN has become even more deranged

WRITTEN BY BOBBY LEWIS

PUBLISHED 04/06/22

As of April 5, DirecTV has removed One America News Network from its TV subscription packages.

In January, DirecTV announced that it would not renew its contract with the far-right conspiracy theory network. Although OAN provided years of virulent bigotry and right-wing misinformation, including one reporter’s on- and off-screen attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the announcement came after a massive public backlash to a Reuters report which revealed that DirecTV’s owner, AT&T, played a critical role in creating OAN and supplied 90% of its income.

Once news broke of its DirecTV contract expiration, OAN filed a breach of contract lawsuit against AT&T and briefly solicited viewers for “dirt” on AT&T’s board chair. Meanwhile, OAN programming has gotten worse since January, as the network doubled down on old staples like anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and lies about the 2020 election, as well as irresponsible coverage of new topics like the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson.

"There are no long-term studies for this vaccine. None. The only protection we have now is not to get it." - Pearson Sharp attacking COVID-19 vaccines

The OAN line on COVID-19 vaccines, as delivered by correspondent Pearson Sharp, is that the vaccines are “turning into DNA” to become “part of your body’s genetic code,” meaning that “there’s a good chance they could … kill you.” None of this is true, but in February, Sharp took these abject lies about vaccine mortality in a genocidal direction, telling OAN viewers that the survival of the United States depended on COVID-19 vaccines killing liberals. Sharp also appeared on Infowars, where he hypothesized that COVID-19 restrictions could spark a justified revolution.

Though she was not OAN’s only misinformer about the 2020 election, former host Christina Bobb became the network’s face of its attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. She fought for, reported on, and fundraised for the Arizona “audit,” and before she left OAN in March to work for former President Donald Trump, Bobb had begun a new phase of her pressure campaign against state-level Republicans to begin new “audits.”

OAN also attached its brand of unhinged conspiracy theories to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Multiple OAN figures have suggested or stated that the Russian attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, was what Sharp called a “false flag operation” connected to billionaire George Soros.

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"It’s deeper – There’s deeper state stuff here, Debbie, don’t you think?” Dan Ball to Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) on Hunter Biden and war in Ukraine

But few OAN personalities took as much of an interest in spreading misinformation about the war in Ukraine as prime-time host Dan Ball, who repeatedly spread Russian government propaganda about nonexistent “biochemical weapons plants” in Ukraine, and seems to fervently believe that the war somehow involves President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and the 2020 Trump campaign’s old, desperate allegations against Biden and a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma. In one segment about Ukraine, Ball even agreed with a guest that the U.S. military should invade and occupy northern Mexico because of immigration.

OAN also spent the past few weeks directing viewers’ ire toward Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Like much of right-wing media, OAN is enthralled by the false narrative that Jackson “lets pedos out of jail early,” according to Ball, who also called the accomplished jurist “scum” based on this smear. OAN programming has called Jackson part of “the pedophilia problem that is currently happening in the left,” an unmistakable reference to QAnon lies (previously seen during the pre-QAnon Pizzagate era) that liberal elites participate in the systematic sexual exploitation of children. 

In what may be OAN's waning days, as DirecTV essentially replaced it with Fox Nation and some of its more visible “talent” have fled the sinking ship, OAN launched its own streaming service in an attempt to stay alive. While subscriber numbers are not publicly known, it seems unlikely that “OANN Live” will make up for the financial loss of OAN’s DirecTV contract.

More importantly, OAN’s conduct since losing DirecTV -- suing its former carrier, spreading Russian propaganda, convincing viewers that not only will vaccines kill people but some of them have to die, to say nothing of its shockingly hateful anti-LGBTQ content -- should make it clear to any TV provider that this litigious, conspiratorial disaster of a channel is simply not worth the trouble.

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on Thursday night, One America News Network’s Dan Ball announced that The Real Story host Natalie Harp had quietly exited the far-right channel for a job with Donald Trump. Harp is the second OAN host to leave the embattled channel for Trump-world following Christina Bobb’s recent departure.

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after a concerned viewer wrote into Ball’s show inquiring about Harp’s week-long absence, Ball announced that Natalie and Bobb “are now working for 45, President Donald J. Trump.”

Bobb had announced recently that she was “leaving OAN, kind of,” to help “fight for election integrity” with Trump’s Save America Pac.

Like Bobb, Harp was central to OAN's promotion of the Big Lie. Since the former Trump Advisory Board member’s March 2021 debut, Harp pushed a variety of patently false, absurd claims about various conservative causes and the 2020 election, Her sycophanticcoverage earned her Trump’s praise.

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5 Points On The Newly Released Testimony Of Rudy! Sidney! And The Big Lie Gang

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UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 19: Rudolph Giuliani, attorney for President Donald Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee, on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election... MORE

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A mass of documents gathered in the course of a defamation lawsuit against the proponents of the Big Lie is out, providing depositions with those who led the fight to overturn last year’s election and records that shed new light on the effort.

The documents include depositions with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, representatives of the Trump campaign itself, and employees of MAGA news network OAN.

Eric Coomer, a former employee of voting machine company Dominion, filed the defamation lawsuit in Colorado state court after he found himself accused last year of taking part in a byzantine, supposedly Venezuela-linked conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.

The lawsuit has allowed Giuliani, Powell, and others to face close questioning about the Big Lie, and unearthed documents from the Trump campaign about the effort to subvert the vote.

Here are five points on the information that’s come out of the case:

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Sustained questioning makes the Big Lie promoters squirm.

The depositions offer a rare opportunity for those who propagated the Big Lie to face long, direct questioning about what took place.

Over and over, Big Lie proponents revealed that they didn’t really check to see whether what they were saying was true.

“Those social media posts get all one to me,” Giuliani said. “Right now, I can’t recall anything else that I laid eyes on.”

Giuliani added that, in Coomer’s case, he didn’t see anything that suggested the allegations “weren’t true.”

“Again I’m not the FBI, I wasn’t finding him guilty of a crime,” he said.

An attorney asked Giuliani whether it was “trial by press conference?”

“No, sir,” Giuliani replied, adding, “it was an investigation by press conference.”

Powell took a more aggressive line.

At one point, attorneys replayed a video that Powell had posted about Coomer. After being asked why she posted it, Powell said, “frankly, I think your lawsuit is defamation of me.”

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The Trump campaign couldn’t stop fundraising off the Big Lie.

The Trump campaign itself sat for an interview, making Republican strategist Sean Dollman available as a representative.

Dollman was asked whether post-election claims of fraud were tied to the campaign’s fundraising apparatus. “So the longer the Trump campaign was publicly advancing theories of election fraud, the longer it could justifiably raise money; is that true?” an attorney for Coomer asked Dollman.

The Trump campaign representative replied that they did not “continue with litigation just to raise funds.” Rather, the campaign “raised funds to do that.”

The inevitable next question was: “if you had stopped contesting the election, it would have been harder to continue raising funds, correct?”

Dollman replied that the campaign would have stopped raising funds only “if there was a reason to stop contesting the election.”

He added after further questions that the Trump campaign still believes that the election was fraudulent.

When asked why, Dollman replied: “we have no underlying definite facts that it wasn’t.”

A memo attached as an exhibit to the deposition, first reported by the New York Times, shows that other Trump campaign attorneys knew that some of the Big Lie claims were mythical.

“Have more dead voters we’ll need to get to in the morning,” one wrote in a sardonic email. The memo itself notes, in one example, that Giuliani’s claim that votes were being counted in Spain appeared to be based on the fact that one vote-counting company is “owned by a Spanish person.”

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The Big Lie team began to suspect the Trump campaign and the RNC of holding back…

Giuliani and Powell both suggested in their testimony that the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign itself tried to undermine their efforts at times to push forth the Big Lie.

The former NYC mayor recalled Trump ordering him to “take over the campaign” after his November 2020 loss became clear.

But Giuliani remarked that “the campaign had a different view of what should be done.”

“The campaign in my opinion had checked out about three, four weeks before the election,” he said. “They were pretty much convinced he was going to lose, they were looking for jobs, they were worried about their standing in the Washington community.”

He added that unnamed subversives in the Trump campaign “wanted to defeat” Trump himself, and alleged that attorneys performed a switcheroo on a legal complaint he filed related to the election outcome.

“The complaint that was substituted… completely subverted our theory of the case,” Giuliani complained. “There were more than a few acts like this.”

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…and then they teamed up with an OAN reporter?

Giuliani told attorneys that the Trump legal team effectively deputized a reporter for OAN, the pro-Trump news network, to work for the Big Lie.

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That, Giuliani said, involved Christina Bobb working for Trump’s “personal lawyers,” referring to her as “part of the legal team.” In that capacity, Giuliani claimed, she focused on searching for anything that would support the myth that the election had been fraudulent in the key states of Arizona, Michigan, and Georgia.

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“My staff said she was terrific, she was very trustworthy and if we could work out an agreement with One America News, it would be very helpful,” Giuliani said. “She was a very good investigator.”

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Bobb has used her TV perch at OAN to both promote the Big Lie and fundraise for elements of it. As the reality of Trump’s loss became clearer after the 2020 election, Bobb became increasingly detached from reality in her rhetoric.

Giuliani claimed that over that time period, she agreed to give the Trump legal team veto power over stories.

“The rules that we made with [OAN editor] Charles [Herring] were that he would defer to us to whatever our needs were,that he couldn’t give it to us permanently but he could loosen up her assignments for the next couple of months, therefore she wouldn’t be working all that much for OAN,” Giuliani said.

Herring, in his deposition, denied that he was aware of the arrangement.

Giuliani added that Bobb agreed that “if she did develop a discrete, good story, she would have to run it past us so it didn’t violate any of our rules or whatever.”

“And I was pretty comfortable they would live by it because they had before,” Giuliani remarked.

OAN has produced a string of documentaries that take ideas floating in the Trumpworld ether and give them form.

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Giuliani couldn’t stop revealing more details.

Throughout all of this, attorneys for both sides kept trying to convince Giuliani to stop talking.

He revealed details that included trash talk about Sidney Powell: “She wasn’t as collegial maybe is a nice way to put it, which isn’t unusual for lawyers that tend to be prima donnas.”

He was met with protestations from his own attorney at times. At one point, Giuliani was asked about reporting suggesting that, on the night of the election, he told a group of senior Trump advisers in the White House to “just say that we won.”

Giuliani attorney Joe Sibley kept interjecting to say “we’re asserting privilege” and to tell Giuliani “don’t disclose whatever you said to them,” but Rudy plowed ahead.

“You asked a question and I’m going to finish it,” he fumed to the plaintiff attorney. “And I’m hardly going to tell someone to make an allegation and just say it without having substantial amount of proof of it.”

Giuliani obliquely suggested that he would never — never — make an allegation without heaps of evidence.

“And everything I alleged, I have at least one and usually 10 or 15 affidavits to support except nobody wants to look at them,” he added.

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Wailing And Gnashing Of Teeth: Trumpers React To Draft 'Audit' Report Showing Biden Win

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it is not like we didn’t already know that the so-called audit is a fraudit. But the American Oversight group has recently obtained thousands of pages of records related to the “audit” as the result of a public records lawsuit.

American Oversight is still reviewing the records. VICE News notes that the trove includes communications that suggest Donald Trump wanted to fund it and that his allies were involved from the start.

one prominent Trump ally who turns up in the documents is Trump’s former chief of staff and former RNC chair Reince Priebus. American Oversight found that audit spokesman Randy Pullen texted Priebus in December, before Pullen was officially involved in the audit.

That month, Pullen texted Priebus to tell him about the potential for a “Forensic audit,” and in March asked Priebus for “suggestions on election audit firms.” (Priebus said he would check.) Another text from Pullen to [AZ Republican Committee’s Bruce] Ash, sent on March 8, appears to reference Priebus: “I texted Reince and ask if he would like to help out on the audit,” Pullen said, then followed up to say they were speaking later that morning.

Trump lawyers also show up in the documents. They communicated with with OAN “reporter” Christina Bobb, who helped launch the fraudit, helped fund it and was given special access to its proceedings. More from American Oversight:

In December, according to records previously obtained by American Oversight, One America News reporter Christina Bobb — who later began raising money for the “audit” — provided Fann [Arizona's Senate president] with purported “evidence” of voter fraud, writing that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had “asked me to send you these declarations.” The newly released records include a group text from March 31 involving Fann and Bobb, with Giuliani also included, in which Fann passes along a document with a title that began “Pres. Fann audit hiring.”

Another Trump lawyer, Cleta Mitchell,was also looped in on a number of communications, including an Aug. 2 email chain started by Scott Sigman, a Pennsylvania attorney who appears to be handling the issuing of checks related to the “audit.” Sigman emailed Mitchell, Logan, Pullen, and Thomas Datwyler (the treasurer of a group called the American Voting Rights Foundation) seeking signatures for payments.

Then there is Shiva Ayyadurai, aka “Dr. Shiva,” an anti-vaxxer, pro-Trumper who dubiously claims he invented email and has falsely accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of being hellbent on forced and mandatory vaccines. American Oversight reported that its newly-obtained documents include a signed contract between Cyber Ninjas, the unqualified firm conducting the audit, and Ayyadurai.

Priebus plans to bring Dr. Shiva to Wisconsin for its "investigation":

Last month, Priebus reportedly said during an interview that the Wisconsin investigation would be bringing in “Dr. Shiva.” https://t.co/232ivCy3ol

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Some of the frauditors made some darned good money, too!

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— TRAPEZOID OF DISCOVERY (@get_innocuous) September 1, 2021

There’s still plenty left to be discovered. VICE notes that 2,500 of the Arizona Senate’s most sensitive documents, including almost all direct communications with Cyber Ninjas and CEO Doug Logan, have been withheld as privileged. Meanwhile, you can dive into the documents already released here.

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chaos at Arizona audit: OAN host snapped at local reporter in profane confrontation. What happened?

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A fundraising group, under the direction of a One America News Network (OAN) host, is now footing the bill to cover travel expenses for out-of-state Republican legislators to tour the botched election audit currently underway in Maricopa County, Ariz.

According to Talking Points Memo, Voices and Votes is the group led by Christina Bobb, a former Trump administration official who currently works as a host for the One America News Network (OAN). Back in April, Bobb gradually became more vocal about the group's fundraising efforts noting that it had surpassed the $150,000 milestone.

At the time, pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood confirmed to the publication that his own group Fight Back had also contributed $50,000 to Voices and Votes. His admission came as he admitted that he had personally spent time with Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, the top contractor conducting the audit. At that time, Wood claimed Logan told him he was "working on the investigation into election fraud."

At one point, she also incorporated an on-air campaign to promote fundraising efforts for the group.

"Voice and Votes is an organization that I started, and I'm working to help other state senators get a close-up view of the Arizona audit," Bobb said. "If you'd like to help fund other state senators to get an up-close and personal view of the Arizona audit, you can donate at VoicesandVotes.org."

Now, those funds are being utilized to help Republican lawmakers travel to the state so they can get a firsthand experience of how the audit is being conducted which may influence future audits in similar fashion in other states.

While many Republican legislators have expressed interest in touring the audit, there are a number of reasons why there are concerns about this. The audit may not be the best reference to model after as it is being conducted by an inexperienced firm. It has also been a subject of intense scrutiny over the last several weeks.

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With devotees of former Present Donald Trump currently conducting a blatantly partisan audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, One America News Network has been offering glowing coverage of that event. Journalist Sarah Mimms, in an article published by BuzzFeed News on May 18, examines the connection between OAN employees and the audit — which was ordered by Republicans in the Arizona State Senate and is being conducted by the Florida-based firm Cyber Ninjas, whose founder Doug Logan is a far-right Trump supporters who pushed the former president's false claims of voter fraud in 2020.

"Two reporters at One America News, a far-right TV station, are running a dark money organization that they say is helping fund a counter-reality 'audit' that former President Donald Trump and his supporters believe will overturn Arizona's 2020 election results in his favor," Mimms explains. "What's more, one of those reporters, Christina Bobb, is the network's most visible correspondent covering the very 'audit' that she is helping scare up money for on OAN's airwaves, while she and the network enjoy unique access to the process where private contractors and volunteers are searching for fraud and have examined ballots for nonexistent watermarks and 'bamboo fibers.' OAN has a deal as the exclusive livestream partner for the audit."

Bobb hosts a program on OAN called "Weekly Briefing," and Mimms points out that on April 9, she tweeted that she had founded a group devoted to promoting the audit: Voices and Votes. According to Bobb, the group raised $150,000 that day.

"According to its website," Mimms observes, "Voices and Votes is run by Bobb as the CEO and president, as well as OAN's White House correspondent Chanel Rion, who is listed as the chief marketing officer, and Courtland Sykes, Rion's fiancé, who is listed as the group's chief operations officer."[twt dANGEROUSLY UNDERFUNDED"

although the Maricopa County audit is being slammed as a joke by Trump's critics on both the left and the right, legitimate audits or recounts of the election results in Arizona have been conducted — and they showed that now-President Joe Biden won Arizona fair and square. Biden's Arizona victory was reported by the decision desk at Fox News on Election Night 2020 and was later certified by conservative Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey.

Mimms explains why the current Maricopa County audit is a "farce," noting, "It's important to pause here and note that the audit itself is not really an audit at all. What happened is the Arizona Senate, which is controlled by 16 Republicans to 14 Democrats, sent a subpoena to Maricopa County — which was upheld by a judge, forcing the county to hand over 2.1 million ballots,as well as vote tabulators and a bunch of election data. The 'audit,' which is being run by outside contractors hired by the Senate, will have no force or effect on the 2020 election results; Joe Biden is president, andArizona already did an audit of Maricopa County in the presidential race and didn't find a single ballot discrepancy.The county itself, which is not involved in the current Senate audit either, also hired two independent firms to review its elections equipment in February, which came back clean as well."

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two reporters at One America News, a far-right TV station, are running a dark money organization that they say is helping fund a counter-reality “audit” that former president Donald Trump and his supporters believe will overturn Arizona’s 2020 election results in his favor.

What’s more, one of those reporters, Christina Bobb, is the network’s most visible correspondent covering the very “audit” that she is helping scare up money for on OAN’s airwaves, while she and the network enjoy unique access to the process where private contractors and volunteers are searching for fraud and have examined ballots for nonexistent watermarks and “bamboo fibers.” OAN has a deal as the exclusive livestream partner for the audit.

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Bobb has not made a secret of her work to keep that audit going. On April 9, she tweeted that she’d founded a group called Voices and Votes to help the Republican-led Arizona Senate complete its audit of the vote in Maricopa County. The group reached its $150,000 fundraising goal that same day,according to Bobb, and she’s continued soliciting money for the audit since, both on Twitter and on air.

According to its website, Voices and Votes is run by Bobb as the CEO and president, as well as OAN’s White House correspondent Chanel Rion, who is listed as the chief marketing officer, and Courtland Sykes, Rion’s fiancé, who is listed as the group’s chief operations officer. The group’s website also says that Voices and Votes is registered as a 501(c)(4) organization, meaning its donors will never be made public.

That also means that the group will never have to give an accounting of how much money it has raised or where that money actually went. Bobb did not respond when BuzzFeed News asked how much Voices and Votes has brought in, but insisted that all of the money raised “has gone to the auditors.”Cyber Ninjas, the firm leading the audit, and its CEO did not respond to multiple requests for comment on whether it had received money from Voices and Votes.

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it’s important to pause here and note that the audit itself is not really an audit at all. What happened is the Arizona Senate, which is controlled by 16 Republicans (to 14 Democrats) sent a subpoena to Maricopa County, which was upheld by a judge, forcing the county to hand over 2.1 million ballots, as well as vote tabulators and a bunch of election data. The “audit,” which is being run by outside contractors hired by the Senate, will have no force or effect on the 2020 election results; Joe Biden is president, and Arizona already did an audit of Maricopa County in the presidential race and didn’t find a single ballot discrepancy. The county itself, which is not involved in the current Senate audit either, also hired two independent firms to review its elections equipment in February, which came back clean as well.

On Monday, Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors, which is majority Republican, wrote a scathing letter to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, calling the audit a threat to democracy and telling her to end it. “The Arizona Senate is not acting in good faith, has no intention of learning anything about the November 2020 General Election, but is only interested in feeding the various festering conspiracy theories that fuel the fundraising schemes of those pulling your strings. ... The result is that the Arizona Senate is held up to ridicule in every corner of the globe and our democracy is imperiled,” the board wrote.

But, as Bobb told her OAN audience a few weeks ago, the new Senate audit will “unravel the Democrats' schemes from 2020” and Trump “will determine our next House and Senate” — whatever that means. In the same segment, she backtracked slightly, saying that “maybe” the audit would show there was no fraud. “Maybe,” she said, laughing, “Biden legitimately won Arizona.”

Needless to say, no legitimate newsroom would allow its reporters to fundraise for an actual news event they’re covering. Nonetheless, Bobb has continued soliciting donations for Voices and Votes, actively fundraising to keep the story she is covering going. Bobb tweeted as recently as April 28 that the audit isn’t “fully funded yet” and asked followers to “please help get this audit across the finish line!” That weekend she dedicated segments of her Weekly Briefing show to her reporting from the audit and an interview with the Arizona Republican Party chair.

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after reaching her $150,000 goal, Bobb announced the group’s “second pledge,” this time without naming a monetary goal, tweeting, “Let’s get this audit funded!” with a donation link.

Just a week later, the Arizona Republican Party tweeted that OAN would be the exclusive livestreamer of the audit. The network now runs nine cameras 24/7 showing contractors examining the 2.1 million ballots. And Bobb herself has been there reporting on it for OAN the whole time, posting photos of herself alongside some of the architects of the audit and thanking those “true Patriots” for making it happen.

Bobb and OAN are getting access to the audit that no other news outlets have, reporters on the ground say. While reporters at other Arizona and national media outlets have had to rotate through a few select spots to cover the audit, Bobb and a writer with the Gateway Pundit, another pro-Trump outlet, are exempted from that pool. She reported live from the coliseum where the audit is taking place every day last week.

Bobb disputed that she and OAN had received any “special treatment” in an email to BuzzFeed News on behalf of Voices and Votes. While she acknowledged that she had different access than members of the Arizona press corps, she said her access to cover the audit depended on “availability.” “I have been denied access at certain times and had to go on different days or at different times,” she wrote. “I am not permitted to attend whenever I want.”

Bobb also noted that OAN is not “in any way” affiliated with her fundraising group “other than allowing me to mention my efforts on air” and said the network “has not received anything as a result of Voices and Votes' donations.”

“I have openly and honestly disclosed all my efforts on air, and have handled the funds exactly as I said that I would,” she said.

Rion did not respond to requests for comment. Fann, the Senate president, deferred questions about OAN’s access to former Arizona secretary of state Ken Bennett, who is serving as an audit liaison. Bennett did not respond to multiple requests.

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Bobb noted last week that Arizona senators won’t say what would happen if the audit does find “some type of fraud” — which won’t happen, because legitimate audits have already been conducted — and that senators have said this audit is about promoting trust in future elections, not about 2020. “They would not commit to saying that they would overturn anything, but they did say they were certainly taking a look at it,” she said, citing anonymous Arizona legislators.

OAN did not respond to requests for comment on the conflict between Bobb and Rion’s work for their network and their affiliation with Voices and Votes or whether the network has a conflict-of-interest policy.

The audit itself has so far been a farce, enough so that one of the Republican state senators who voted for it told the New York Times that in practice the audit is “ridiculous” and “makes us look like idiots.” At one point, workers were checking for any traces of bamboo in the ballot paper in a frankly stupid and racist attempt to test a conspiracy theory that thousands of illegal ballots were shipped in from Asia. They were shining UV lights on ballots for reasons that weren’t really explained by officials at the time but seemed to line up with a QAnon-adjacent theory that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security had watermarked real ballots so the Democrats’ fraudulent ones could be easily found. That prompted the Maricopa County Elections Department to publicly post a fact check: “There are NO watermarks on Maricopa County ballots.”

Then there’s the firm that the Arizona Senate hired to run the whole thing, Cyber Ninjas, owned by Doug Logan. As the Arizona Mirror reported, Logan repeatedly posted conspiracies about the election being stolen and falsehoods about Dominion Voting Systems on his since-deleted Twitter account. Logan is also the author of a three-page document of “election fraud facts” posted to former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s website intended for senators to use in explaining why they would object to the election results and try to give the White House back to Trump, the Mirror also reported. Logan, it's worth noting, stood behind the document in a statement to the Mirror.

His firm and three others are now paying contractors $15 an hour and bringing in volunteers to examine the ballots — among them was a former state representative who lost his 2020 race and was also filmed on the Capitol steps during the Jan. 6 insurrection. With the process taking way longer than expected, a big bill is coming and it’s unclear who is paying it.

The Arizona Senate only gave $150,000 in taxpayer money to the project, which they knew was a laughable sum for an election audit of this size, and is allowing Cyber Ninjas to raise the rest from whoever. And several prominent Trump supporters have stepped up. Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who has peddled some of the more out-there election conspiracy theories, kicked in $1 million and has his own dark money group raising funds, per the Arizona Republic. MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told the Daily Beast that he had donated. And Lin Wood, an attorney who filed a bunch of lawsuits trying to overturn the election, told Talking Points Memo and confirmed to BuzzFeed News that his 501(c)(4) #FightBack had donated to Bobb’s Voices and Votes.

Meanwhile, reporters at other outlets who are not paying for the audit had to fight to cover it at all. At one point, the Arizona Senate told media that they could only have access to the audit if they signed up for at least five six-hour shifts as volunteer observers. To be clear, they wouldn’t then get to report on the audit, their only access under this plan was as workers for the audit they were trying to cover. And, the Senate said, they could not bring laptops or cellphones or even a paper and pen with them. “People observing even executions are allowed to bring their notebooks in with them,” Arizona Capitol Times reporter Julia Shumway, who has since covered the audit, told BuzzFeed News.

Shumway and her colleagues eventually did get press access to the audit, but only after the Arizona Mirror, the Arizona Republic, and the Arizona Broadcasters Association got lawyers involved. Now, reporters have to pool their resources with one print journalist, one videographer, and one photographer allowed into the audit at any given time, and they must be escorted, even to the bathroom, Shumway said. Meanwhile, Bobb and a reporter for the Gateway Pundit can report outside of the pool.

When asked about the discrepancy in treatment for OAN and the Gateway Pundit and every other news outlet, Fann told PBS that OAN was given livestreaming rights to the audit because “they have covered this from the beginning. They are one of the firms that came in right off the bat and said we will help do all the 24-hour video so everybody has access to this 24/7, that they wanted to be a part of it. So I don’t think that’s a bad idea. If there was another network had come up and said that first, we would have went with them probably.”

She later accused other, unnamed reporters of trespassing and said they had worried about too many members of the media “walk[ing] all over the place and tak[ing] pictures.” Asked if she had any similar concerns about OAN, she responded simply, “No, huh-uh. Nope.”

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May 18, 2021, at 2:13 p.m.

The Arizona Mirror, the Arizona Republic, and the Arizona Broadcasters Association brought the legal fight to get reporters access to the audit. A previous version of this story was unclear on who led the legal effort.

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as it seeks to overturn the election results and keep President-elect Joe Biden from assuming power, President Donald Trump’s legal team, fronted by lawyers such as Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and until recently Sidney Powell, has been operating out of a conference room at the 2020 campaign’s downsized headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

Aiding Trump’s so-called “elite strike force” team in that effort has been an on-air host at One America News Network (OAN), a vociferously pro-Trump cable-news channel that has been endorsed by the president.

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Christina Bobb chairs the Weekly Briefing on OAN. She’s also a lawyer by trade.And in recent days, she’s been spotted by several Trump officials at their office in the conference room with the rest of the president’s team. Her presence has caused a bit of confusion among actual campaign staff, who wondered if she was there to embed with the Trump legal “strike force” as a reporter.

But according to multiple knowledgeable sources, Bobb has actually been assisting the president’s long, long, long-shot legal effort—effectively taking on a secondary role as a pro-Trump lawyer even as she continues her job as a pro-Trump TV host.

“Christina is an attorney and has helped with some legal work in her personal capacity and not on behalf of OAN,” Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to Trump and his 2020 campaign, told The Daily Beast on Monday afternoon.

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Such an arrangement would be absolutely unthinkable in other newsrooms. But OAN’s editorial stance is so committedly pro-Trump that it almost, almost makes sense. Bobb certainly hasn’t hidden her feelings for the president or his current legal endeavors. Even when compared to the output of other OAN on-air staff, she has shown intense commitment to the premise that Trump actually won the election that he clearly lost.

Bobb’s Twitter feed is clogged with baseless claims of fraud and grand proclamations about Trump’s chances of overturning the election results and securing a second presidential term. During on-air segments, she has suggested that there was indeed a “massive amount” of voter fraud both in Trump’s election and potentially in others, including former Republican candidate Kim Klacik’s race in Maryland (she lost her race in a heavily Democratic district by over 40 percentage points).

In recent segments about the Trump campaign’s legal efforts, Bobb has not disclosed that she has been an informal consultant to those very same efforts.

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During her weekend show, she interviewed Ellis—her current legal collaborator—about recent developments in the campaign’s challenges to election results in several states. But she did not note during the segment that she had any sort of role in the campaign’s legal fight. On Twitter, Bobb has cheered on the Trump legal team, even praising its performance in a press conference in which such wild conspiracies were spun about voting corruption that the president himself reportedly thought it too far fetched. Once more, she never disclosed that she has been working with that team.

Since Friday, Bobb has not responded to multiple messages seeking comment on this story. Reached by phone on Monday, network founder and president Charles Herring declined to comment on his employee’s activity with the Trump legal team, requesting The Daily Beast email him instead. He did not respond to an email.

Bobb’s cozy relationship with the president’s legal team may be the most brazen example of the cozy relationship Trump and his campaign have maintained with members of conservative media. But it’s hardly the first.

As The Daily Beast reported in 2018, the president has regularly consulted with Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs, who would call in to private Oval Office meetings and advise the White House informally on various policies. The president also regularly canvases his friends in conservative media about administration policy and messaging, phoning Fox News stars like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, and hosting Fox personality Laura Ingraham at the White House to During the 2020 election, CNN contributor Ana Navarrohosted a virtual fundraiser for Biden, a move that the network said did not violate their policies because she was not paid. High-profile on-air personality Van Jones also advised Jared Kushner on the police-reform executive order signed by Trump earlier this year.

To avoid conflicts of interest, news networks generally do not allow their on-air contributors to endorse or run for office or work on political campaigns or political action committees while appearing as a paid analyst. Over the past month, since Joe Biden’s election, MSNBC has cut ties with at least four contributors who have taken advisory roles in the president-elect’s transition effort.

But OAN stands out in its on-air fealty to Trump, even when compared to the standards observed by its competitors in pro-MAGA right-wing media.

Two days before Election Day, The Daily Beast asked OAN president Charles Herring if the network would call the election for Trump if the president, as he had planned to do, declared victory preemptively. Herring responded by messaging a lengthy statement that included, “OAN is a subscriber to the Associated Press’ Votecast data and Votecount elections results technology," and that for "Winner Projections," the network "will be utilizing primarily Associated Press’ Votecast data and Votecount." (The statement also references the “expert analysis” provided by “Christina Bobb, host of Weekly Briefing.”)

In propping up an alternate media universe in which Trump didn’t lose, OAN is ignoring its own system of data collection. The AP has long since called the 2020 presidential election for Biden.

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one America News Hires Christina Bobb For DC And Administration News Coverage

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Source: Herring Networks, Inc., dba One America News Network and AWE

Washington, D.C.  – June 10, 2020, Herring Networks, Inc., parent company of national cable news channel One America News Network (“OAN”) is pleased to announce the recent hiring of Christina Bobb.  Ms. Bobb will cover breaking news from the Administration for the network.

“We’re pleased to have Christina join our DC reporting staff.  It’s an exciting time for One America News, which has seen explosive growth in ratings performance over the last year,” stated Robert Herring, CEO and Founder of Herring Networks, Inc.

Prior to joining OAN, Ms. Bobb was the Executive Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security.  Christina oversaw the management of written communication intended for, and originated by, the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.  Under her leadership, the Office of the Executive Secretary (ESEC) governs the Department-wide processes for responding to correspondence and preparing the Secretary’s briefing book, congressional authorization reports, hearing testimony, and questions for the record (QFR) related to congressional authorizing committees.

Christina served in the United States Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate.During her time on active duty, she was as an operational law attorney in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, assisting the Command in all legal matters relating to operations and intelligence.  While stationed in Quantico, Virginia, Christina worked as a defense counsel, representing marines and sailors in courts-martial and administrative separation hearings. Christina also mobilized to Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa in Stuttgart, Germany as an operations officer.  In this role, she was responsible for briefing the senior leadership on current operations in both Europe and Africa on a daily basis.

In addition to her military service, Christina spent several years as a civil litigation attorney, representing clients in all stages of trial, negotiations, mediations, and arbitration at the law firm Higgs, Fletcher, & Mack LLP in San Diego, California.  Most recently, Christina clerked at the Office of Legal Counsel for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Christina holds a B.A. from Arizona State University, an M.B.A. from San Diego State University, a J.D. from California Western School of Law, and an L.L.M. in National Security Law from Georgetown University Law Center.

About Herring Networks, Inc.

One America News Network is a dependable, reliable source for credible live news reporting 24/7. The network also provides three one-hour political talk shows, namely The Daily Ledger with Graham Ledger,  Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler, and After Hours with Alex Salvi.. While other established cable news networks offer just several hours of live news coverage, only OAN can claim to consistently provide 20 hours of live coverage Monday through Friday with extensive weekend coverage. In addition to external news-gathering sources, the network operates news bureaus in Washington, D.C., New York and California.  One America News Network is available on leading national cable providers, including AT&T U-verse, CenturyLink PRISM TV, DirecTV, AT&T TV, Frontier Communications, Verizon FiOS TV, and numerous regional video providers across the nation.  For more information on One America News Network, please visit www.OANN.com.

Media contact:

press@oann.com

Herring Networks, Inc.

Phone: 858-270-6900 x 105

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