Thread by @normative

You will be shocked to learn that PillowGuy’s “Absolute Proof” doesn’t exist, according to his own cybersecurity experts. The promised “pcaps” don’t exist; they had garbage data provided by a notorious serial scam artist. Who could have predicted? washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/…

The source of the garbage data that doesn’t actually contain pcaps is Dennis Montgomery, whose career for the past two decades has consisted of running one elaborate fraud after another. npr.org/templates/stor…

Note that Lindell’s cyber expert, now repudiating his claims, is Josh Merritt, aka Spyder, an IT consultant falsely presented as a military intelligence expert in Sidney Powell’s lawsuits, and author of a comically inept dream logic affidavit claiming OTHER bogus fraud evidence.

So EVEN THAT GUY is saying Lindell has nothing.

That’s like having P.T. Barnum tell you it’s time to tone down your exaggerations.

Merritt is the guy who told federal courts that secret SCORECARD software was used to tamper with elections because he found a progressive site with a “scorecard” subdomain that hosted… a political scorecard. Montogmery, well… where to begin…

Montgomery is probably BEST known for causing false terror alarms by scamming the Pentagon & CIA with tall tales about being able to detect secret Al Qaeda messages hidden in Al Jazeera broadcasts. wired.com/2009/12/montgo…

Montgomery once sued reporter James Risen for describing him as a con artist, and a federal court said: “nope, that’s pretty fair.”

courthousenews.com/risen-cleared-…

For his next trick, he conned Sheriff Joe Arpaio out of $120k in taxpayer money to “investigate” a conspiracy theory that the DOJ & CIA were plotting against Arpaio. He never gave THEM the promised evidence either. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

And, of course, Montgomery has cropped up again more recently with a *different* set of bogus election fraud claims. thedailybeast.com/infamous-hoax-…

Even if you’re a credulous moron, I don’t understand how anyone at this late date decides to yoke their reputation to this guy. It’s like getting an offer from Jeffrey Epstein to babysit & thinking “well he sounds trustworthy.”