NEW: Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is speaking tonight at an FEC United event in Castle Rock alongside founder Joe Oltmann who has called for the mass hanging of political opponents, including Governor Polis. #copolitics
Clerk Peters entered to a thunderous standing ovation from the crowd. FEC United, which has an affiliated militia wing, has collected signed loyalty pledges from a number of elected Republicans in Colorado and was previously led by @cologop chair @ColoradoKbb.
@cologop@ColoradoKbb Tonight's event also features former University of Colorado Boulder visiting conservative scholar John Eastman, who advised the Trump legal team on how to overturn the 2020 election. Eastman has said he will defy a subpoena from the Jan 6 select committee.
State Representative and US Senate candidate Ron Hanks was cheered by the crowd when he said he was present in Washington for Jan 6. Hanks has falsely claimed that Antifa was behind the attack and he urged foreign governments to intervene to prevent the Biden presidency.
Hanks said he's prepared election-related bills for Colorado Republicans to pass once they capture the statehouse majority. "We will prepare the battle space for the next session," Hanks said. "When we hit the majority, they can pull these bills out of archive."
Election rigging conspiracy theorists have claimed that Clerk Peters and Elbert County Clerk Dallas Schroeder are with them. Both have claimed to have made copies of secured voting system files and given them to others. Crowd is asking how many sheriffs are also on board.
"They want to shut me up, persecute me, and harass me and they'll try to do that with anyone who tries to come out with the truth," Peters told the crowd. Peters noted she was wearing the same outfit she was wearing when she turned herself in on a warrant this morning.
Election conspiracy theorist Shawn Smith's threat to Secretary of State @JenaGriswold (D) wasn't very subtle. After the crowd chanted "Lock her up!" Smith said, "I think if you are involved in election fraud then you deserve to hang. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways."
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Colorado's KNUS-AM played a key role in boosting unsupported claims that the 2020 election was rigged by Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems. KNUS' owner, Salem Radio, is now offering an apology and retraction.
Several KNUS hosts platformed Joe Oltmann, the podcaster from Douglas County, who claimed to have overheard an Antifa conference call where a Dominion exec bragged about rigging the election. (Yes, this was the same claim central to Mike Lindell's defamation judgment this week)
Oltmann stands by his election rigging claims and has called for the mass executions of his perceived political opponents - from specific elected officials to journalists. Oltmann has talked of killing people by hanging and dragging them behind his vehicle until dismembered.
NEW: MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell found liable for defamation for his statements about Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer. Federal jury orders Lindell to pay $2.3M, far less than the $62.7M requested by Coomer’s attorneys.
Jurors found Lindell engaged in civil conspiracy with his company FrankSpeech to broadcast the defamatory claims but did not find MyPillow liable as requested by the plaintiff’s team
Lindell claims to have vaporized his $50-60M fortune pursuing election rigging claims and is $10M in debt. Plaintiff’s attorney said there’s no way to know if he has money because they can’t see audited financial statements from his companies
Day 10 of MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell’s election rigging defamation trial in Denver began with a failed attempt by Lindell’s team to bring him back to the stand. US District Court Judge Nina Wang rejected that saying Lindell had covered the issue at hand in his 2+ days in the stand.
The defense then rested and, outside the presence of the jury, asked the judge to toss the defamation cases against Lindell’s companies, FrankSpeech and MyPillow.
The defense again argued that Lindell wasn’t reckless with his election rigging claims. “They’re trying to hold Mr Lindell to the standard of a PhD. He has a high school education,”attorney Chris Kachouroff said. “He did the best he could.”
Day 8 of MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell’s election rigging defamation trial in Denver begins. Lindell is on the stand for a third day. The judge is expected to rule on the admissibility of clips from Lindell’s election conspiracy theory documentaries.
I’d like to take this moment to express my thanks to my pillow, not to be confused with MyPillow. The wood benches in federal court are like something out of an 1800s church, the kind where you hear more about God’s wrath than God’s love. This pillow has literally saved my a—.
Jurors heard video testimony from Dennis Montgomery, who claims to have created a software program used by the CIA to rig elections worldwide. He says Lindell bought it from him for $1.5M. A deep dive on Montgomery's infamous, well-chronicled history: reuters.com/investigates/s…
This morning one of my girls put maple syrup on the dog. And that might not be the most bizarre thing I witness today. Day 7 of MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell’s election rigging defamation trial in Denver begins shortly. Lindell is still on the stand.
Reminder: I try to relay key moments in the trial, but I am not logging every development here. For that, check out my talented colleague @TheMarissaSol’s rolling coverage here: 9news.com/article/news/p…
Lindell’s counsel is trying to guide him through how he came to believe elections are rigged. Lindell is being constantly scolded by the judge for not directly answering questions and going on monologues.
Day 6 of MyPillow guy Mike Lindell‘s election rigging defamation trial in Denver begins now. Lindell is expected to take the stand today. On Friday, jurors heard testimony from a cyber security analyst who said he was punished when he challenged Lindell’s claims.
For those curious, the featured item of the day being sold to support Lindell is the king size pillow. The MyCross necklace also remains 50% off.
Mike Lindell is on the stand in his election rigging defamation trial. Lindell says he’s drained his entire fortune chasing claims of election rigging. “I went from a net worth of $50M to $10M in the hole and I’ve lost everything,” Lindell said.