POLITICS
24/10/2021
04:53 BST
Army 'Psy Ops' Expert Part Of Trump Team 'Command
Center' To Overturn Vote: Report
Plots to subvert the will of American voters were
discussed in a "war room" at the Willard in downtown Washington,
D.C., reports The Washington Post.
By Mary
Papenfuss, HuffPost US
A retired
Army colonel who was an expert in psychological operations was part of a
chilling Donald Trump team “command center” determined to overturn the
legitimate presidential election victory of Joe Biden, The Washington Post
reported Saturday.
Riveting
new details about the plots at the Willard Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C.,
uncovered by the Post reveal the military-like operation aimed at seizing
control from American voters over who should occupy the White House.
“Some of
[then] President Donald Trump’s most loyal lieutenants were working day and
night with one goal in mind: overturning the results of the 2020 election,” the
Post noted.
Key figures
included Trump’s then personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, former White House
strategist Steve Bannon, former New York City police commissioner Bernard
Kerik, and law professor John Eastman, who “outlined scenarios for denying
Biden the presidency” and “subvert[ing] the will of the voters” in an “Oval
Office meeting on Jan. 4 with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence,” the Post
reported.
“We had a
war room at the Willard . . . coordinating all of the communications,” Eastman
told talk show host Peter Boyles, which was first reported in the newsletter
Proof.
“I believed
until Inauguration Day that something could be done — that’s why the fight was
still going on,” Kerik told The Post.
Phil
Waldron, a retired Army colonel who specialized in psychological operations,
led a team who provided Kerik with analyses of state data, which purported to
show fraudulent voting, people familiar with activities at the Willard told The
Post.
Waldron was
also working closely with Russell Ramsland, a Texas Republican who had been
spreading election-fraud conspiracy theories for months before the election,
according to the Post.
Neither man
responded to requests from the Post for comment.
On Jan. 2,
Trump, Giuliani and Eastman spoke to 300 state legislators on a conference
call, urging them to take action to “decertify” their election results. “You
are the real power,” Trump told the state lawmakers, The Washington Examiner
reported.
The day of
the Jan. 6 insurrection, Trump tweeted to his followers breaching the Capitol:
“We love you, you’re very special.”
.jpeg)
.jpeg)
Sem comentários:
Enviar um comentário