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'We're looking at everybody': Dominion says Trump could be next after $1.3 billion Giuliani lawsuit
January 25, 2021
Dominion Voting Systems suggested on Monday that former President Donald Trump could face a massive lawsuit for misinformation about the 2020 election.
It was revealed this week that Dominion is seeking $1.3 billion in damages after it sued Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani for his role in spreading falshoods about the company.
<p>"Just as Giuliani and his allies intended, the Big Lie went viral on social media as people tweeted, retweeted, and raged that Dominion had stolen their votes. While some lies -- little lies -- flare up on social media and die with the next news cycle, the Big Lie was different," attorneys for Dominion explained in the filing. "The harm to Dominion's business and reputation is unprecedented and irreparable because of how fervently millions of people believe it."</p><p>In a press call on Monday, Dominion attorney Tom Clare revealed that Trump could also be facing litigation.</p><p>"We're not ruling anybody out," he said. "We're looking at everybody."</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">On a call with reporters, Dominion Voting Systems lawyer Tom Clare says: "This is the 2nd lawsuit Dominion has filed to set the record straight...There will be others."<br/><br/>Asked if Dominion is considering a suit against Trump, Clare adds: "We're looking at everybody."<br/>— Andy Kroll (@AndyKroll) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndyKroll/status/1353722198083710979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Dominion lawyer Tom Clare says on a press call that there's a possibility of moving forward with other lawsuits following their $1.3 billion lawsuit against Giuliani today. <br/><br/>When asked if former Pres. Trump could be one of them, he responded, "We're not ruling anybody out."<br/>— Ursula Perano (@UrsulaPerano) <a href="https://twitter.com/UrsulaPerano/status/1353723781848686593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Storming of the Capitol was carried about by an 'army of conspiracy theorists': journalist
January 25, 2021
Speaking to Religion News Service earlier this month, Milwaukee-based freelance journalist and author Tea Krulos discussed the rise of conspiracy theories in America, saying that 2020 "has just been one giant conspiracy theory about everything," adding that the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was carried out by "an army of conspiracy theorists."
According to Krulos, the prime ingredients that allow conspiracy theories to grab hold of people's minds are fear, anger and division -- ingredients that are plentiful in the current era and are exacerbated by the internet.
<p>"I think it's so easy to create misinformation that looks like it could be legit," he told RNS. "I see people telling people they need to fact-check stuff, and I'm glad, but a lot of times people don't want to fact-check it. They see something that confirms this bias they have, and they're like, 'That sounds right to me, and so it's fact to me.'"</p><p>While the events of Jan. 6 were horrifying, Krulos said he wasn't surprised. "...you can't just paint [the mob] as fringe nuts, because there were elected officials who were part of that crowd."</p><p>Krulos also commented on the relationship between conspiracy theories and religion.</p><p>"Really QAnon, which is the biggest conspiracy problem today, is just the Satanic Panic all over again," he explained. "It's very, very much based on this idea that Trump is a man of God, and he's engaged in a holy war with the sinister Satan-worshipping cabal of Democrats and other liberals, the media, Hollywood, stuff like that. They are the satanic ring that are pedophiles and cannibals and secretly causing everything awful happening in our country."</p><p>Read the full interview over at <a href="https://religionnews.com/2021/01/12/author-tea-krulos-on-conspiracy-theories-and-the-american-madness-that-gripped-the-capitol/" target="_blank">Religion News Service</a>.</p>
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Pro-Trump 'intellectuals' exposed for pushing violent insurrection ahead of January 6 riot
January 25, 2021
A group of nationalist "intellectuals" supportive of former President Donald Trump are being exposed for supporting violent insurrections before the deadly January 6th pro-Trump riots at the United States Capitol building.
Christian Vanderbrouk, a conservative commentator who previously worked in the George W. Bush White House, has written a piece for The Bulwark in which he shows how some of the most high-brow Trump supporters stoked the flames of violence that culminated in the Capitol insurrection.
<p> Claremont Institute fellow and Boston University professor emeritus Angelo Codevilla, for instance, argued that pro-Trump conservatives would have to give police "lively reasons to fear you" and encouraged them to form armed vigilante groups to protect themselves from a potentially tyrannical Biden administration.</p><p>Former Trump national security spokesman Michael Anton, meanwhile, suggested that Biden's victory would lead to a righteous "rebellion" among Trump supporters.</p><p>"One half the country -- or to be more precise, the class that rules in the interests of (at most) half the country -- will surmise that it can rule by fiat," he wrote. "The other half will conclude that they are subjects. Whether that conclusion resigns the latter to apathy or stirs them to rebellion is the question that will determine the course of our politics going forward."</p><p>And former CNN journalist Chuck de Caro wrote at the pro-Trump American Greatness website that it was time for Trump voters to follow the example of the McMinn County War of 1946 in which World War II veterans led an armed revolt against corrupt local officials in Tennessee.</p><p>"Much like the thinking of many Trump voters around the country today, the GIs realized that something more than the normal parliamentary response was in order," he wrote. "So while today's Trump voters are, as yet, armed only with their smartphones as they try to ascertain the legitimacy of Tuesday's vote, the McMinn County GIs decided to seize the ballot boxes and count the votes . . . the hard way."</p>
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