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May 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEW: Conservative activist Leonard Leo arranged consulting fees for Clarence Thomas's wife -- and urged her name be left off billing paperwork.
"No mention of Ginni, of course," Leo emphasized, according to documents reviewed by @washingtonpost.
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In January 2012, Leo instructed the GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group he advises $25,000 and use that money to pay Ginni Thomas, the documents show.
Sep 1, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
New: Ginni Thomas pressed Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory, according to emails obtained by @washingtonpost and @ItsDocumented washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The Post previously reported that Thomas pressed 29 Arizona lawmakers to do the same, in emails she sent in Nov and Dec 2020 using the FreeRoots platform for sending prewritten messages to multiple local officials.
Jul 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@OldNewsman breaks the news that a third elections worker has been arrested in connection with Tina Peters’s alleged scheme to copy Dominion voting machine hard drives. But that’s not even the most interesting thing…
The affidavit in support of the arrest of Sandra Brown, who worked for Peters, confirms that former pro surfer Conan Hayes is under investigation for allegedly being the person who posed as Gerald Wood in order to get access to the Dominion machines, @OldNewsman reports.
Mar 9, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Colorado county elections official Tina Peters is indicted in probe of alleged tampering with voting equipment washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The court has just set bond for Peters at $500,000 cash.
Feb 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
We first wrote about Russ Ramsland, ASOG and the Antrim report last spring. We knew they were central to the election-fraud claims Trump and his allies were making, but so much more has come to light since then. bit.ly/3oEbvPI
Phil Waldron was Giuliani's witness in public meetings with battleground state legislators in Nov/Dec 2020. In pressing lawmakers to order "audits" of election results, Waldron referred to his work with ASOG in Antrim, saying they found evidence of fraud in county machines.
Feb 22, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Dominion has sued MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for repeating false claims that their machines were manipulated to rig the election against Trump. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Calling Lindell a "talented salesman," Dominion argues that he used his election-fraud claims to sell pillows to like-minded Trump supporters.
Jan 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There were other scary episodes that we couldn't fit into this reconstruction. Two congresswomen, Kathleen Rice and Stephanie Murphy, were stranded in the Capitol basement for more than an hour, listening to the rioters rush in, Rice told me. (thread)
They had been on the way to meet Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on the Senate side of the Capitol around 1:45 pm when they realized they were in danger. They holed up in a room with no protection except a chair pushed up against the door.
