Yahoo Movies The Trump Campaign Knew the Dominion Voting Machine Stuff Was Nonsense When They Started With It
I ask this question seriously, and not to denigrate in any way the reporting that went into producing the story. But, in some profound sense, is this kind of thing still news anymore? From the New York Times:
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 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.
The more information like this that comes out, the more I envision the writhing ball of snakes that was the previous administration* coming to its end like a Fuhrerbunker with a Twitter account—everybody afraid to tell the leader that the opposition was closing in from four sides, and inventing tales of wonder weapons and miracle cures just to get out of the conference room alive.
The documents also suggest that the campaign sat on its findings about Dominion even as Sidney Powell and other lawyers attacked the company in the conservative media and ultimately filed four federal lawsuits accusing it of a vast conspiracy to rig the election against Mr. Trump…As Mr. Coomer’s lawyers wrote in their motion in the defamation suit, “The memo produced by the Trump campaign shows that, at least internally, the Trump campaign found there was no evidence to support the conspiracy theories regarding Dominion” and Mr. Coomer.
(This material was made public in a defamation suit brought by Dominion’s former director of security, whose career was wrecked in the fury ginned up by the White House.)
I find this more interesting than the extensive drip-drip-drip marketing plan behind Bob Woodward’s latest Comstock Lode of anecdotes, most of which continue to anger me most because he knew this stuff and didn’t reveal it when it a) was news, and b) would’ve helped the country. Unlike Mark Milley, Woodward’s hero, Eric Coomer was someone who didn’t ask to be collateral damage in an assault on republican democracy. He deserves justice. Make it pay, Mr. Coomer. Get it while you can.
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