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When controversial MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell visited the White House on Friday, a Washington Post reporter captured a photo of "martial law" appearing on the notes he brought with him.
Lindell said he was there to brief Trump on what he was missing out on after his lifetime suspension from Twitter.
<p>"Following his meeting with President Trump on Friday, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said in a Facebook interview with Right Side Broadcasting News today that he's praying that the military presence in Washington is part of Trump's plan to retain power," Tim Miller of The Bulwark reported Saturday. "In Lindell's interview—which has garnered <a href="https://www.facebook.com/414280728767306/videos/390526185542479" target="_blank">hundreds of thousands of views on Facebook</a> in just a few hours—he recounts the details of his meeting with the president and rattles off a series of unintelligible conspiracies in a Minnesota lilt."</p><p>Lindell believes he has "proof" of election fraud, pushing the debunked conspiracy theory that incited the fatal January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. </p><p>"You know I've been looking down every hole for election fraud since November 4th and about eight or nine days ago this proof came out. One-hundred percent footprints from the machines of the machine fraud," Lindell said. "I wanted to get it to the president. This is it. This shows that Joe Biden lost: 79 million for Donald Trump and 68 million for Joe Biden."</p><p>"I said I talked to the guy. This is real. I said it's got the IP address of the computer that it came out of. It also has the latitude and longitude like over in China this went over there came back and it shows the number of votes flipped," Lindell argued.</p>
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<p>"What is your sense of the presence of the military here? Is it over the top?" the interviewer asked.<br/></p><p>"I don't understand it," Lindell replied. "You know there's like three people and every other person's a military guy. . . . We've all had our prayers going, 'Gee maybe somethings gonna be done that this president is willing to say hey we've been attacked by another country cause we have. Our country's been under attack for a long time.'"</p><p>"I think people are hoping that this military presence is a response to what you just said," the interviewer said.</p><p>"That's where my hope lies," Lindell replied.</p><p>Watch:</p><p><br/></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="314" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=314&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Frsbnetwork%2Fvideos%2F390526185542479%2F&show_text=false&width=560" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="560"></iframe></div>
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Giuliani wants rejection of reality to be Trump's impeachment trial defense: report
January 16, 2021
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani wants to double-down on the conspiracy theories that resulted in Donald Trump's impeachment as the strategy for the defense in the upcoming Senate impeachment trial.
"President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani tells ABC News he's working as part of the president's defense team in his upcoming second impeachment trial -- and that he's prepared to argue that the president's claims of widespread voter fraud did not constitute incitement to violence because the widely-debunked claims are true," ABC News reported Saturday evening.
<p>Giuliani was <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/giuliani-working-trumps-impeachment-defense-argue-voter-fraud/story?id=75302032" target="_blank">interviewed</a> by ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl.</p><p>"I'm involved right now … that's what I'm working on," Giuliani said. </p><p><span></span>"They basically claimed that anytime [Trump] says 'voter fraud, voter fraud' -- or I do, or anybody else -- we're inciting to violence; that those words are fighting words because it's totally untrue," he said. "Well, if you can prove that it's true, or at least true enough so it's a legitimate viewpoint, then they are no longer fighting words."</p><p>Unfortunately for Giuliani, there is zero evidence to support his conspiracy theory.</p><p>Giuliani's legal strategy was reported ten days after he suggested "trial by combat" after while firing up Trump supporters shortly before the Capitol insurrection.</p><p>Trump's attorney, who is under investigation by the same Southern District of New York office he once led, also suggested taking impeachment to court -- even though the Constitution offers no such role for the judicial branch.</p><p><span></span>"If they decide to bring it to a trial, he should move to dismiss the impeachment as entirely illegal. That it was the only impeachment ever done in what, two days, three days," Giuliani suggest. "We would say to the court, 'You are now permitting in the future, basically in two days, the Congress can just impeach on anything they want to.'"</p>
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Harry Reid slams Mitch McConnell -- and offers Biden advice on dealing with the GOP leader
January 16, 2021
A former top Democrat who spent 30 years serving in the U.S. Senate with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) offered advice for the incoming Biden administration on dealing with the GOP leader.
"McConnell has done everything he can to damage the Senate. It's only turned into a manufacturing site for judges," former Senate majority leader Harry M. Reid (D-NV) told The Washington Post.
<p>"They don't do amendments, they don't do any legislation at all," he explained.</p><p>Under current Senate rules, the filibuster could allow McConnell and his GOP caucus to frustrate efforts of the Biden administration as it seeks to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and economic catastrophe.</p><p><span></span>"I believe the filibuster is on its way out. It's not a question of if; it's a question of when it's going to go," Reid said. "Joe Biden has said he will see if he can work something out with McConnell to get legislation done. Maybe with all eyes pointed to McConnell, he won't be the grim reaper he's been in the past. But if that continues after whatever Biden thinks is a reasonable time, he may need to get rid of the filibuster."</p>
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