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Welcome back to False Flag! It’s still pretty icy here in D.C., but we’ve got two hot items for you today.
First up: I’ve got some ideas about what particular brand of 2020 conspiracy theories drove last week’s FBI raid on a ballot-storage facility in Georgia. An evil CIA supercomputer is involved!
Then: After conclusively dismantling failing to take down the deep state, image-conscious former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has returned to his podcast. Has he mellowed out in the interim? Lol.
On Monday’s show, Bongino’s guest was none other than Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States of America, and the host listened giddily as his former boss talked about nationalizing the vote in “at least fifteen places.” That and the FBI raid make clear that we’re in for a very bumpy ride heading into this fall’s midterm elections. There’s no better way to keep tabs on it all than with a Bulwark+ membership. Join now to read today’s newsletter in its entirety and to keep up with all our ongoing coverage:
–Will
Trump Gets the 2020 Election Loon Gang Back Together
Plus: Dan Bongino’s angry return to the podcast studio.
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The Theories Fueling Trump’s Election Attack
LAST WEEK’S FBI RAID on an elections building in Fulton County, Georgia, threatens to plunge the nation back into the dark days of late 2020 and early 2021, when Donald Trump scrambled for anything he could use to overturn his election loss. Hugo Chávez influencing the Dominion Voting System? Hell, yeah. A claim by a disgraced falconer that Osama bin Laden was still alive? Sure, why not!
Underscoring how big a priority this is for the president, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made an appearance at the raid. Gabbard has become the administration’s chief 2020 election sleuth, according to the Wall Street Journal. She is tasked with producing a report that could presumably be used to justify federal restrictions on this year’s midterm elections. Her mere presence there suggests that this “investigation” is headed in the maximally crazy direction.
To that end, the raid has already been hailed as a major turning point by some of the nation’s leading 2020 kooks.
“You. Are. F*cked,” Kari Lake, still a government official at the United States Agency for Global Media, tweeted at a Fulton County election commissioner.
But what exactly are Trump and Gabbard planning to say happened in 2020? Exactly how divorced from reality is this going to get? Recent comments by Trump allies and the president’s own Truth Social account offer some clues about where we’re headed...
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