Two weeks after the 2020 election, a team of lawyers closely allied with Donald J. Trump held a widely watched news conference at the Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington. At the event, they laid out a bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that a voting machine company had worked with an election software firm, the financier George Soros and Venezuela to steal the presidential contest from Mr. Trump.
But there was a problem for the Trump team, according to court documents released on Monday evening.
By the time the news conference occurred on Nov. 19, Mr. Trump’s campaign had already prepared an internal memo on many of the outlandish claims about the company, Dominion Voting Systems, and the separate software company, Smartmatic. The memo had determined that those allegations were untrue.
The Times has posted a copy of that memo. It's linked above. Then there's this:
The court papers, which were initially filed late last week as a motion in a defamation lawsuit brought against the campaign and others by a former Dominion employee, Eric Coomer, contain evidence that officials in the Trump campaign were aware early on that many of the claims against the companies were baseless.
For example this is from the memo:
You might have to click on the image to see it. But do you see that last line? It reads:
There's no evidence Dominion used Smartmatic technology in their machines in the 2020 election.
And yet when we look at the evidence trail found on Wendy Bell's FB page, we find this:
See that part in the middle? Under the heading:
DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS
It reads:
- Used "Smartmatic" voting software (financed by Hugo Chavez?)
Look up at the part of the memo I posted. It reads:
Dominion And Smartmatic Are Independent Companies That Split From Each Other In 2012.
The memo also says that Dominion has no ties to Venezuala and so on.
This is what the Trump Team knew a few weeks after Trump's election loss in November 2020 and yet they spread the lie anyway.
The lie spread far and wide and into a Wendy Bell Monologue.
How much of what you said was wrong, Wendy?
Any comment?
