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Mike Flynn belongs in prison.
Michael Flynn: 'Gates of Hell' will be unleashed on Trump's enemies when he takes office https://www.rawstory.com/michael-flynn-2669394146/
#MikeFlynn #NationalSecurity #GOPWeirdos #DonaldTrump #TrumpWillLose2024 #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government.
Trump appointed him anyway.
#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government.
Trump appointed him anyway.
#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government.
Trump appointed him anyway.
#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government.
Trump appointed him anyway.
#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government.
Trump appointed him anyway.
#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 7, 2020 – The criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, was dropped by the Justice Department — even though Flynn had pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI in an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump called those who opposed him “dishonest, crooked people… They’re scum — and I say it a lot, they’re scum, they’re human scum.”
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#SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 7, 2020 – The criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, was dropped by the Justice Department — even though Flynn had pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI in an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump called those who opposed him “dishonest, crooked people… They’re scum — and I say it a lot, they’re scum, they’re human scum.”
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#SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 7, 2020 – The criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, was dropped by the Justice Department — even though Flynn had pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI in an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump called those who opposed him “dishonest, crooked people… They’re scum — and I say it a lot, they’re scum, they’re human scum.”
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#SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 7, 2020 – The criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, was dropped by the Justice Department — even though Flynn had pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI in an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump called those who opposed him “dishonest, crooked people… They’re scum — and I say it a lot, they’re scum, they’re human scum.”
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#SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 7, 2020 – The criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, was dropped by the Justice Department — even though Flynn had pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI in an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump called those who opposed him “dishonest, crooked people… They’re scum — and I say it a lot, they’re scum, they’re human scum.”
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#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
November 25, 2020 – Trump pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, one of six associates convicted in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Flynn had pleaded guilty for lying to the FBI.
#ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff
November 25, 2020 – Trump pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, one of six associates convicted in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Flynn had pleaded guilty for lying to the FBI.
#TrumpDidThis #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #TrumpIsSatan #PresidentWiles #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol
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#FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff
May 7, 2020 – The criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, was dropped by the Justice Department — though Flynn had pleaded guilty TWICE to lying to the FBI about Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump called those who opposed him “dishonest, crooked people… They’re scum — and I say it a lot, they’re scum, they’re human scum.”
#NeverAgainTrump #TrumpMustLose2024 #VoteBlueIfYouWantToLive #VoteBlue #GOPCrooks
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On the second anniversary of the insurrection, Twitter restored the account of Michael Flynn, who pushed Trump to use the military to overturn the election.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8ybb/capital-riot-twitter-flynn-ali-alexander
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 17, 2017 – Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces.
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#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 17, 2017 – Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces.
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#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 17, 2017 – Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces.
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#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 17, 2017 – Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces.
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#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
May 17, 2017 – Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces.
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#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 25, 2017 – Ekim Alpetkin, a Turkish businessman and Michael Flynn’s former client, long carried ties with the Russian government and Vladimir Putin himself before working with General Flynn.
Alpetkin paid Flynn $600,000 just before Donald Trump appointed Flynn to his post as national security adviser for the new administration.
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enemies
"As General Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr., boasted last year: “The public has no idea how massive our Digital Army is.”"
(Byline Times, Barrett Brown, April 2026)
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"The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire
New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enemies
General Michael Flynn, Trump’s former National Security advisor, boasted to the Young America Foundation soon after Trump’s first election victory in 2016, that the President’s campaign had been a quasi-military 'insurgency' run by 'digital soldiers'.
That same year the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence’s official journal StratCom, published a paper entitled ‘It’s Time to Embrace Memetic Warfare’.
Its author was Jeff Giesea, an investor and political operative, who had run companies on behalf of pro-Trump billionaire Peter Thiel, co-founder of defence surveillance giant Palantir and business partner of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
At the time Giesea defined memetic warfare, a term he coined, as 'a subset of information operations or psychological warfare tailored to social media'.
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In 2011, hackers breached the servers of HBGary Federal, a private US intelligence contractor, and leaked internal documents revealing a proposed operation – developed with involvement from Thiel’s data company Palantir – to deploy near-identical tactics against trade unions, journalists and left-wing activists on American soil.
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Those tactics had been developed and deployed over years by a loose network of far-right organisations – funded, in part, by figures directly connected to Thiel.
That infrastructure centred on a cluster of white supremacist and hard-right online platforms – among them the neo-Nazi publication Daily Stormer — covertly funded, according to participants, by Giesea. The same platforms served as testing grounds for the harassment campaigns, disinformation operations and memetic tactics that Giesea would later present to a NATO-affiliated journal as a respectable strategic toolkit.
Connecting those platforms to Thiel’s wider network was a single figure: Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker and neo-Nazi provocateur known online as 'Weev'. His ties to Thiel had been rumoured in leaked Epstein correspondence, but had never previously been corroborated. They can now be established — through Auernheimer’s own private statements and a decade of documented network activity — for the first time.
Auernheimer was, in effect, a bridge. He moved between the anarchic image-board subcultures of the early internet and organised white supremacist movements. He connected the PayPal and Palantir milieu around Thiel to the alt-right he helped create and harness. And he linked the first generation of online harassment operations to the contemporary influence networks that today increasingly shape mainstream political discourse.
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In 2016, Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Peter Thiel summarising what he saw as the political opportunity opened by the Brexit vote: 'return to tribalism. counter to globalisation. amazing new alliances.' This, he concluded, was 'just the beginning.'
What the documented record shows across a decade is a consistent pattern.
Tactics developed in far-right corners of internet culture – harassment campaigns, disinformation operations, sockpuppet networks, memetic influence campaigns – were progressively absorbed into elite political and strategic discourse, sometimes through the same operators who first deployed them."
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/139734/ Museveni Hosts Retired U.S. General Michael Flynn #LtGenMichaelFlynn #Muhoozi #Museveni #SoftPower #SoftPowerNews #TopUgandaNews #Uganda #USArmy
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The origin story of the proposed executive order is murky, but it appears to trace back to a network of pro-Trump activists who have spent years pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
One of them is
#Peter #Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who has known Trump since the two attended the New York Military Academy as teenagers.Ticktin represented his former classmate in a 2022 civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to smear Trump with claims that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
A federal judge later dismissed the suit and sanctioned Trump’s attorneys
—including Ticktin
—finding that the suit amounted to the “deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”Ticktin currently represents #Tina #Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 breach of her office’s voting machines.
In an interview, Ticktin told us he wrote what he described as a “precursor” to the 17-page draft executive order that has been circulating since April of last year.
“I'm not sure exactly who prepared this one,” he said of the version dated April 12,
which he provided to Democracy Docket last month.But Ticktin said he believed the April 12 version of the draft order was “really well done”
—well done enough that he emailed it to the president.Ticktin said his outreach to government officials about the draft executive order also extended to #Kurt #Olsen, the White House director of “election security and integrity.”
Olsen, an attorney, represented Texas in its unsuccessful post-2020 suit to overturn Trump’s loss.
He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for advancing “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” in Kari Lake’s failed bid to challenge her 2022 gubernatorial loss in Arizona.
Now, as a White House official, Olsen has reportedly been tasked with leading a probe to reexamine the 2020 race.
Last month, an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that a criminal inquiry into election irregularities in Fulton County began with a referral from Olsen.
According to Ticktin, others involved with the effort surrounding the draft order include #Michael #Flynn, the former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before receiving a sweeping pardon from Trump in December 2020;
#Patrick #Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and prominent election skeptic;
and #Stefanie #Lambert, an attorney who is awaiting trial in Michigan over allegations that she illegally accessed voting tabulators in an attempt to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
Both Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly and publicly advocated for Trump to declare a national emergency ahead of the upcoming election.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down,
but several figures connected to the election-denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it.A key figure is "#Juan O. #Savin",
the nom de plume of #Wayne #Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles.Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.
—who died in a plane crash in 1999
—living under an assumed identity.Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections:
In 2021, he co-founded the "America First Secretary of State Coalition", which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states.
The coalition received significant funding from "The America Project",
the organization co-founded by Flynn and Byrne.In a recent appearance on the right-wing program "Nino’s Corner", Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump’s re-election campaign in the summer of 2024.
Finding that version “inadequate,” he assembled a coalition of “legal minds” and “election experts”
to formulate a new version of the proposed order.According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration.
Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring.
The page count may not be coincidental:
Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning,
because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet,
and believers often treat the number as a coded signal. -
The origin story of the proposed executive order is murky, but it appears to trace back to a network of pro-Trump activists who have spent years pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
One of them is
#Peter #Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who has known Trump since the two attended the New York Military Academy as teenagers.Ticktin represented his former classmate in a 2022 civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to smear Trump with claims that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
A federal judge later dismissed the suit and sanctioned Trump’s attorneys
—including Ticktin
—finding that the suit amounted to the “deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”Ticktin currently represents #Tina #Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 breach of her office’s voting machines.
In an interview, Ticktin told us he wrote what he described as a “precursor” to the 17-page draft executive order that has been circulating since April of last year.
“I'm not sure exactly who prepared this one,” he said of the version dated April 12,
which he provided to Democracy Docket last month.But Ticktin said he believed the April 12 version of the draft order was “really well done”
—well done enough that he emailed it to the president.Ticktin said his outreach to government officials about the draft executive order also extended to #Kurt #Olsen, the White House director of “election security and integrity.”
Olsen, an attorney, represented Texas in its unsuccessful post-2020 suit to overturn Trump’s loss.
He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for advancing “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” in Kari Lake’s failed bid to challenge her 2022 gubernatorial loss in Arizona.
Now, as a White House official, Olsen has reportedly been tasked with leading a probe to reexamine the 2020 race.
Last month, an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that a criminal inquiry into election irregularities in Fulton County began with a referral from Olsen.
According to Ticktin, others involved with the effort surrounding the draft order include #Michael #Flynn, the former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before receiving a sweeping pardon from Trump in December 2020;
#Patrick #Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and prominent election skeptic;
and #Stefanie #Lambert, an attorney who is awaiting trial in Michigan over allegations that she illegally accessed voting tabulators in an attempt to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
Both Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly and publicly advocated for Trump to declare a national emergency ahead of the upcoming election.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down,
but several figures connected to the election-denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it.A key figure is "#Juan O. #Savin",
the nom de plume of #Wayne #Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles.Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.
—who died in a plane crash in 1999
—living under an assumed identity.Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections:
In 2021, he co-founded the "America First Secretary of State Coalition", which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states.
The coalition received significant funding from "The America Project",
the organization co-founded by Flynn and Byrne.In a recent appearance on the right-wing program "Nino’s Corner", Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump’s re-election campaign in the summer of 2024.
Finding that version “inadequate,” he assembled a coalition of “legal minds” and “election experts”
to formulate a new version of the proposed order.According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration.
Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring.
The page count may not be coincidental:
Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning,
because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet,
and believers often treat the number as a coded signal. -
The origin story of the proposed executive order is murky, but it appears to trace back to a network of pro-Trump activists who have spent years pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
One of them is
#Peter #Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who has known Trump since the two attended the New York Military Academy as teenagers.Ticktin represented his former classmate in a 2022 civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to smear Trump with claims that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
A federal judge later dismissed the suit and sanctioned Trump’s attorneys
—including Ticktin
—finding that the suit amounted to the “deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”Ticktin currently represents #Tina #Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 breach of her office’s voting machines.
In an interview, Ticktin told us he wrote what he described as a “precursor” to the 17-page draft executive order that has been circulating since April of last year.
“I'm not sure exactly who prepared this one,” he said of the version dated April 12,
which he provided to Democracy Docket last month.But Ticktin said he believed the April 12 version of the draft order was “really well done”
—well done enough that he emailed it to the president.Ticktin said his outreach to government officials about the draft executive order also extended to #Kurt #Olsen, the White House director of “election security and integrity.”
Olsen, an attorney, represented Texas in its unsuccessful post-2020 suit to overturn Trump’s loss.
He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for advancing “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” in Kari Lake’s failed bid to challenge her 2022 gubernatorial loss in Arizona.
Now, as a White House official, Olsen has reportedly been tasked with leading a probe to reexamine the 2020 race.
Last month, an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that a criminal inquiry into election irregularities in Fulton County began with a referral from Olsen.
According to Ticktin, others involved with the effort surrounding the draft order include #Michael #Flynn, the former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before receiving a sweeping pardon from Trump in December 2020;
#Patrick #Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and prominent election skeptic;
and #Stefanie #Lambert, an attorney who is awaiting trial in Michigan over allegations that she illegally accessed voting tabulators in an attempt to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
Both Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly and publicly advocated for Trump to declare a national emergency ahead of the upcoming election.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down,
but several figures connected to the election-denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it.A key figure is "#Juan O. #Savin",
the nom de plume of #Wayne #Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles.Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.
—who died in a plane crash in 1999
—living under an assumed identity.Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections:
In 2021, he co-founded the "America First Secretary of State Coalition", which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states.
The coalition received significant funding from "The America Project",
the organization co-founded by Flynn and Byrne.In a recent appearance on the right-wing program "Nino’s Corner", Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump’s re-election campaign in the summer of 2024.
Finding that version “inadequate,” he assembled a coalition of “legal minds” and “election experts”
to formulate a new version of the proposed order.According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration.
Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring.
The page count may not be coincidental:
Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning,
because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet,
and believers often treat the number as a coded signal. -
The origin story of the proposed executive order is murky, but it appears to trace back to a network of pro-Trump activists who have spent years pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
One of them is
#Peter #Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who has known Trump since the two attended the New York Military Academy as teenagers.Ticktin represented his former classmate in a 2022 civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to smear Trump with claims that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
A federal judge later dismissed the suit and sanctioned Trump’s attorneys
—including Ticktin
—finding that the suit amounted to the “deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”Ticktin currently represents #Tina #Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 breach of her office’s voting machines.
In an interview, Ticktin told us he wrote what he described as a “precursor” to the 17-page draft executive order that has been circulating since April of last year.
“I'm not sure exactly who prepared this one,” he said of the version dated April 12,
which he provided to Democracy Docket last month.But Ticktin said he believed the April 12 version of the draft order was “really well done”
—well done enough that he emailed it to the president.Ticktin said his outreach to government officials about the draft executive order also extended to #Kurt #Olsen, the White House director of “election security and integrity.”
Olsen, an attorney, represented Texas in its unsuccessful post-2020 suit to overturn Trump’s loss.
He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for advancing “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” in Kari Lake’s failed bid to challenge her 2022 gubernatorial loss in Arizona.
Now, as a White House official, Olsen has reportedly been tasked with leading a probe to reexamine the 2020 race.
Last month, an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that a criminal inquiry into election irregularities in Fulton County began with a referral from Olsen.
According to Ticktin, others involved with the effort surrounding the draft order include #Michael #Flynn, the former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before receiving a sweeping pardon from Trump in December 2020;
#Patrick #Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and prominent election skeptic;
and #Stefanie #Lambert, an attorney who is awaiting trial in Michigan over allegations that she illegally accessed voting tabulators in an attempt to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
Both Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly and publicly advocated for Trump to declare a national emergency ahead of the upcoming election.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down,
but several figures connected to the election-denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it.A key figure is "#Juan O. #Savin",
the nom de plume of #Wayne #Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles.Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.
—who died in a plane crash in 1999
—living under an assumed identity.Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections:
In 2021, he co-founded the "America First Secretary of State Coalition", which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states.
The coalition received significant funding from "The America Project",
the organization co-founded by Flynn and Byrne.In a recent appearance on the right-wing program "Nino’s Corner", Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump’s re-election campaign in the summer of 2024.
Finding that version “inadequate,” he assembled a coalition of “legal minds” and “election experts”
to formulate a new version of the proposed order.According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration.
Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring.
The page count may not be coincidental:
Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning,
because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet,
and believers often treat the number as a coded signal. -
https://www.europesays.com/africa/134428/ Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba Meets Ex-U.S. Intelligence Chief Michael Flynn #GenMuhooziKainerugaba #MichaelTFlynn #SoftPower #SoftPowerNews #TopUgandaNews #USFormerIntelligenceChief #Uganda
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Several high-ranking federal election officials
attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to
🔥overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election
pressed the president to
👉 declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.According to videos, photos and social media posts reviewed by ProPublica,
the meeting’s participants included #Kurt #Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election,
and #Heather #Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity.The event was convened by #Michael #Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser,
and attended by #Cleta #Mitchell,
who directs the "Election Integrity Network",
a group that has spread false claims about election fraud and noncitizen voting.Election experts say that the meeting reflects an intensifying push to
persuade Trump to take unprecedented actions to affect the vote in November.Courts have largely blocked his efforts to reshape elections through an executive order,
and legislation has stalled in Congress that would mandate strict voter ID requirements across the country.The Washington Post reported Thursday that activists associated with those at the summit have been circulating a draft of an executive order
that would ❌ban mail-in ballots
and ❌get rid of voting machines
as part of a federal takeover.#Peter #Ticktin, a lawyer who worked on the executive order and had a client at the summit,
told ProPublica these actions were
“all part of the same effort.”The summit followed other meetings and discussions between administration officials and activists
— many not previously reported
— stretching back to at least last fall,
according to emails and recordings obtained by ProPublica.The coordination between those inside and outside the government represents a breakdown of crucial guardrails,
experts on U.S. elections said.“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election
have only grown better organized
and are now embedded in the machinery of government,”
said Brendan Fischer,
a director at the "Campaign Legal Center",
a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization.“This creates substantial risk that the administration is laying the groundwork to improperly reshape elections ahead of the midterms
or even go against the will of the voters.”https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms