NEW:
House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into the Cyber Ninjas Maricopa Cty Arizona election 'audit'
Attached is the letter they sent to Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan today:
".. The Committee is deeply troubled by Cyber Ninjas’ lack of election audit experience; its reported mismanagement of the audit in Maricopa County, which may have compromised ballots and election equipment;
"your own bias and history of embracing conspiracy theories related to the election; and the private sources of funding that may have further undermined the credibility and impartiality of this effort.
"The Committee is particularly concerned that your company’s actions could undermine the integrity of federal elections and interfere with Americans’
constitutional right to cast their ballot freely and to have their votes counted without partisan interference.
"In connection with this investigation, the Committee intends to study the need for legislative reforms to ensure the right is protected before, during, and after an election and that third parties do not interfere with this right."
These paragraphs are followed by a pretty thorough list of docs the committee are requesting by 7/28.
Letter is signed by Carolyn Maloney and Jamie Raskin with copies to 2 GOP ranking members of respective committees
This is a really great letter!
We'll see what Logan does now
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Per The Guardian:
Leaked Kremlin documents indicate that in a meeting on 1/22/16 Putin authorized a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Trump in the 2016 election
Kremlin denies
Guardian stands by this reporting
Thread:
2/".. They agreed a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them “social turmoil” in the US and a weakening of the American president’s negotiating position.
3/"Russia’s three spy agencies were ordered to find practical ways to support Trump, in a decree appearing to bear Putin’s signature. .. A report prepared by Putin’s expert department recommended Moscow use “all possible force” to ensure a Trump victory.
Oh look:
Per Detroit News Toyota will now stop donating to Senators who voted against certifying Biden's win
Public pressure works!
& say what you will about Lincoln Project they serve a highly effective purpose.. detroitnews.com/story/business…
2/"Toyota Motor Corp. will no longer donate to members of Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election in January, the company said Thursday, after facing blowback over corporate contributions.
3/"The move also follows an announcement earlier in the day that The Lincoln Project, a political action committee founded by Republicans to help defeat Trump in the 2020 election,
Trouble in paradise?
Per Playbook this am:
Jr's g/f Kimberly Guilfoyle has joined Eric Greitens' Missouri Senate campaign as Nat'l Chair
Trump doesn't support him & won't endorse him
Also, Greitens did this⬇️
So.. perfectly on brand for Guilfoyle? apnews.com/article/chris-…
2/ Playbook: "One Trump adviser said Greitens has the disadvantage of being associated with MIKE PENCE because his former chief of staff, NICK AYERS, ran his gubernatorial campaign.
3/"Multiple advisers said Trump has been concerned that attaching Guilfoyle’s name to Greitens will look like an implicit endorsement from him.
2/"Back home, Georgia’s first Black senator is more subtle, pitching a ‘comprehensive view of infrastructure’ and avoiding talk of his reelection fight already looming just months after he won a January special election runoff with Senate control at stake.
3/"Indeed, the preacher-turned-politician spent the Independence Day recess hopscotching from an inland port in the conservative Appalachian foothills to liberal Atlanta’s urban microbreweries and sprawling public hospital, then the suburban defense contractors in between.
Without passage of the For The People voting rights act the GOP redistricting could potentially be viciously aggressive
And the intra-party GOP fighting has already begun: politico.com/news/2021/07/0…
2/"Local Republicans, eager to grow their numbers in Congress and provide launching pads for ambitious state legislators, might be more inclined to carve up those blue pockets.
3/"But others in the GOP are wary of a rapid and unpredictable political realignment that complicates the drawing of new maps — and the threat of the legal behemoth Democrats have assembled to counter them.
Per ProPublica:
More evidence of what we know to be true:
Sr Trump officials were warned that 1/6 could turn chaotic
Instead of stopping the march Trump and his allies "fooled" the USCP
& accommodated the Stop the Steal leaders
(thread) propublica.org/article/new-de…
2/"ProPublica has obtained new details about the Trump White House’s knowledge of the gathering storm, after interviewing more than 50 people involved in the events of Jan. 6 and reviewing months of private correspondence.
3/"Taken together, these accounts suggest that senior Trump aides had been warned the Jan. 6 events could turn chaotic, with tens of thousands of people potentially overwhelming ill-prepared law enforcement officials.