Trump White House Aides Subpoenaed in Firing of Election Security Expert

[onthedarkside]

 

The special counsel investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to cling to power after he lost the 2020 election has subpoenaed staff members from the Trump White House who may have been involved in firing the government cybersecurity official whose agency judged the election “the most secure in American history,” according to two people briefed on the matter.

The team led by the special counsel, Jack Smith, has been asking witnesses about the events surrounding the firing of Christopher Krebs, who was the Trump administration’s top cybersecurity official during the 2020 election.

 

Mr. Krebs’s assessment that the election was secure was at odds with Mr. Trump’s baseless assertions that it was a “fraud on the American public.”

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/us/politics/trump-aides-subpoenaed-special-counsel.html

 

 

NO PAYWALL ARCHIVE LINK

[candide]

It seems that someone accumulated a valuable experience to head a conservative dating app! ????

 

Quote from the article:

"Months before the 2020 election, Mr. McEntee, now the head of a dating app for conservatives, and a deputy sought to overhaul the government’s hiring process. They developed what became known by some officials as “the loyalty test” — a new questionnaire for government hires that asked such questions as “What part of Candidate Trump’s campaign message most appealed to you and why?”

[bendejo]

1 hour ago, candide said:

“What part of Candidate Trump’s campaign message most appealed to you and why?”

A great question for any of his fans. 

 

 

[animalmagic]

"the head of a dating app for conservatives"

an absolute gold mine for 'others' to exploit. I wonder who else gets the data?

[HappyExpat57]

To quote Chris Christie (referring to the enormous amounts of "coincidences" that surround former 45):

 

"He must be the unluckiest S.O.B. in the world."

[Purdey]

Amazing how deep the rabbit hole goes 

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A second firm hired by Trump campaign found no evidence of election fraud

Former president Trump’s campaign quietly commissioned a second firm to study election fraud claims in the weeks after the 2020 election, and the founder of the firm was recently questioned by the Justice Department about his work disproving the claims.
Ken Block, founder of the firm Simpatico Software Systems, studied more than a dozen voter fraud theories and allegations for Trump’s campaign in late 2020 and found they were “all false,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post.
“No substantive voter fraud was uncovered in my investigations looking for it, nor was I able to confirm any of the outside claims of voter fraud that I was asked to look at,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/trump-false-election-fraud-claims/

alternate link: https://archive.ph/i8tvE#selection-307.0-307.73

[ozimoron]

9 hours ago, candide said:

It seems that someone accumulated a valuable experience to head a conservative dating app! ????

 

Quote from the article:

"Months before the 2020 election, Mr. McEntee, now the head of a dating app for conservatives, and a deputy sought to overhaul the government’s hiring process. They developed what became known by some officials as “the loyalty test” — a new questionnaire for government hires that asked such questions as “What part of Candidate Trump’s campaign message most appealed to you and why?”

Notice they said "campaign message" and not "policies". Can we play a little quiz as to why that may be?

[bendejo]

Dating app for conservatives?  (from NYT article)

That sounds like a setup for a joke.

Generally, woman are impressed by guys being generous tippers, but for them it's by not leaving a tip.  Outside he tells her they should have ducked out without paying, and the gal says "let's go to my place, NOW!" 

 

Edited June 1, 2023 by bendejo