Remember the AZ 2020 audit of the official recount of the
official election outcome conducted by the FL group known as the Cyber Ninjas – the group that had zero experience
in election matters such as recounts or audits of recounts.
Explosive update here from the GUARDIAN with this headline helps explain the source of a $1
million dollar contribution to that audit with this story headline:
“Revealed: Trump secretly
donated $1m to discredited Arizona election audit”
Highlights from the article: One of the enduring mysteries
surrounding the chaotic attempts to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020
presidential battle has been solved: who made a secret $1 million dollar
donation to the controversial election audit in Arizona?
The identity of one of the
largest benefactors behind the discredited review of Arizona’s vote count has
been shrouded in secrecy. Now the Guardian can reveal that the person who
partially bankrolled the failed attempt to prove that the election was stolen
from Trump was … Trump.
An analysis by the watchdog group “Documented” traced funding for the Arizona audit back to Trump’s Save America PAC.
The group tracked the
cash as it (1) passed from Trump’s PAC, (2) through an allied conservative group, (3) to a shell company which in turn (4) handed the money to contractors and
individuals involved in the Arizona audit.
Key part from this
article right up front: Cyber Ninjas widely-lambasted inquiry was focused
on Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populated area that Joe Biden won by
45,109 votes.
The purported investigation was suffused with wild conspiracy theories, including the claim that bamboo fibers found in ballot sheets proved they had been printed in Asia.
The audit was decried even by
local Republicans as: “a grift disguised as an audit.”
Bill Gates, the
Republican vice-chair of the Maricopa county board of supervisors at the time
of the Cyber Ninjas audit, said: “I am disappointed, but not surprised by
the Guardian’s revelation that Trump had helped to pay for it. I have no
problem with audits. What I have a problem with is an audit that is undertaken
with a goal in mind, and that is literally being funded by one of the
candidates. This is absolutely what we do not want to happen.”
Gates then added:
“Under Arizona law, electoral candidates are not allowed
to fund vote recounts which have to be financed with taxpayer dollars. Though
the Cyber Ninjas review was technically not a recount, it served a similar
purpose. At the very least, it is highly hypocritical for the senate to have
allowed the audit to be funded in this fashion.”
Remember Cyber Ninjas: That Florida-based company that led the Arizona audit, disclosed in 2021 that $5.7m of its budget came from several far-right groups invested in the “stop the steal” campaign to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
It was later
divulged that a further $1m had supported the audit from an account controlled
by Cleta Mitchell, a Republican election lawyer who advised Trump as he plotted
to subvert the 2020 election.
So, who gave the $1m to Mitchell? In September 2021, Cyber Ninjas was preparing to deliver its findings and then the NY Times reported that unnamed “officials” had denied that Trump had played any part in securing the funds.
Republican leaders of the Arizona senate who asked Cyber Ninjas to carry out the audit also publicly denied that Trump was involved, saying: “This absolutely has nothing to do with Trump.”
Documented pierced
through that denial. Basing its research on corporate, tax, and campaign
finance filings, as well as emails and texts obtained by the non-partisan
accountability group American Oversight through public records
requests, they followed the money on its circuitous journey from Trump’s PAC to
the AZ audit review.
My 2 Cents: Once again Trump shows his underhanded conniving
criminal ways to try and achieve the results that matter to him no matter the impact
on anyone or anything else, including the country.
I’ll say again – this man
must never be allowed to serve in government again – never, ever.
Oh yeah, last note: Cyber Ninjas closed shop – they no longer exist.
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