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Excellent Article From LA Times On Coffee County GA Breach Of Voting Machines And The RICO Case. [1]

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Date: 2023-10-28  

The LA Times has an excellent write up of Trump’s allies breaking into the voting machines in Coffee County, GA in order to prove that there was “fraud” in the 2020 Election. In other words, Dominion and Smartmatic changed all those Trump votes to Biden, which is part of the Big Lie pushed by Donald Trump. The “proof” in the Coffee County voting machines was basically Plan B for Guiliani and Powell. Plan A was a directive from Donald Trump to have Homeland Security Department sieze voting machines. Push back from the White House lawyers managed to stop Plan A, but Plan B was implemented on Jan 7th of 2021. Those involved were Rudy Guiliani, Sidney Powell, Scott Hall, Cathy Latham, and Misty Hampton.

The plans to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s win hinged on proving evidence of fraud in the election, something Trump’s team was not able to do. So with time running out, his allies drafted proposed executive orders — dated Dec. 16 and Dec. 17, 2020 — that would have directed the Defense secretary or Department of Homeland Security to seize voting machines, and called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the election. As part of the justification for the orders, both drafts stated that Coffee County had “identified a significant percentage of votes being wrongly allocated contrary to the will of the voter,” and had therefore “refused to certify its result.” The Coffee County reference did not appear in the draft executive order presented to Trump in the Oval Office meeting on Dec. 18. That version would have allowed Homeland Security to seize state election machines and voting data. According to testimony provided to the House Jan. 6 committee by multiple people who attended the meeting, it devolved into a shouting match between Trump allies and White House lawyers over whether the president had the legal authority to make such an order and how the public would react. In an effort to keep Trump from signing the order and naming Powell as special counsel, Giuliani promised that the campaign would soon have access to election machines in Georgia, former White House Staff Secretary Derek Lyons told the Jan. 6 committee in a deposition.

So it was up to Guiliani and Powell to get Coffee County to produce the “proof” of voting fraud. Guiliani worked through a corrupt crony of his, Bernie Kerik. And Kerik met with a “whistleblower” from Coffee County. Kerik paid for the so called whistleblower to come to the Willard Hotel.

You may remember that the Willard Hotel was the “command center” for Trump’s allies to overturn the 2020 Election.

They called it the “command center,” a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of 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 Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse and the ensuing attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob would draw the world’s attention to the quest to physically block Congress from affirming Joe Biden’s victory. But the activities at the Willard that week add to an emerging picture of a less visible effort, mapped out in memos by a conservative pro-Trump legal scholar and pursued by a team of presidential advisers and lawyers seeking to pull off what they claim was a legal strategy to reinstate Trump for a second term. They were led by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. Former chief White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon was an occasional presence as the effort’s senior political adviser. Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik was there as an investigator. Also present was John Eastman, the scholar, who outlined scenarios for denying Biden the presidency in an Oval Office meeting on Jan. 4 with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. They sought to make the case to Pence and ramp up pressure on him to take actions on Jan. 6 that Eastman suggested were within his powers, three people familiar with the operation said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Their activities included finding and publicizing alleged evidence of fraud, urging members of state legislatures to challenge Biden’s victory and calling on the Trump-supporting public to press Republican officials in key states. The effort underscores the extent to which Trump and a handful of true believers were working until the last possible moment to subvert the will of the voters, seeking to pressure Pence to delay or even block certification of the election, leveraging any possible constitutional loophole to test the boundaries of American democracy. “I firmly believed then, as I believe now, that the vice president — as president of the Senate — had the constitutional power to send the issue back to the states for 10 days to investigate the widespread fraud and report back well in advance of Inauguration Day, January 20th,” one of those present, senior campaign aide and former White House special assistant Boris Epshteyn, told The Washington Post. “Our efforts were focused on conveying that message.”

And who was staying at the Willard Hotel during this time? Cathy Latham. It is strongly implied that Latham was the so called whistleblower that there was voter fraud in Coffee County, GA.

When the insurrection occured on Jan 6th, it appears that Giuliani was in communication with Republican senators begging them not to certify the 2020 Election. Giuliani needed more time to find the so called evidence of voter fraud from GA, but the violence of Jan 6th shook the sedition caucus. But this did NOT stop Giuliani and Powell.

Misty Hampton had sent an “invitation letter” to Powell and Giuliani to come and break into the voting machines.

Six days before pro-Trump operatives gained unauthorized access to voting systems, the local elections official who allegedly helped facilitate the breach sent a “written invitation” to attorneys working for Trump, according to text messages obtained by CNN. That includes these text messages and others like it that were originally unearthed as part of a long-running civil suit focused on election security in Georgia. Investigators have scrutinized the actions of various individuals who were involved, including Misty Hampton, a former Coffee County elections official who authored the letter of invitation referenced in text messages and other documents that have been turned over to prosecutors, multiple sources told CNN. They have also examined the involvement of Trump’s then-attorney Rudy Giuliani – who was informed last year he was a target in the Fulton County investigation – and fellow Trump lawyer Sidney Powell as part of their probe, according to people familiar with the matter.

Bu it was already too late for our little enterprising crew of seditionists.

But the GOP senators didn’t provide the assistance Giuliani hoped for. At 3:41 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2021, hours after the attack on the Capitol ended, Vice President Mike Pence certified that Biden had won the election. The Coffee County plans were already in motion. Latham was seen on video security footage later that day escorting the SullivanStrickler team into the Coffee County elections office along with Hall, who had arranged for a private jet to fly him in from Atlanta to watch the forensic imaging process. The team stayed for nearly eight hours, capturing digital images of the highly restricted election management system and voting machines. In a recorded March 2021 phone call that was entered as evidence in the Curling case, Hall said the team’s work was exhaustive. “They scanned all the equipment, imaged all the hard drives and scanned every single ballot,” he said. In the end, it wasn’t enough. No evidence of fraud was found.

For more details, please go read the article.

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