Fact check: Evidence disproves claims of Italian conspiracy to meddle in U.S. election (known as #ItalyGate) January 15, 2021
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-fact-check-debunking-italy-gate-idUSKBN29K2N8/
ITALYGATE: How votes were switched throughout the U.S. Presidential race
Italygate: is the Italian government directly involved in the US election fraud against Trump?
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/italygate-how-votes-were-switched-throughout-the-u-s-presidential-race/
DoD investigated "Italygate" conspiracy theory per Trump request Jun 23, 2022
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/23/miller-defense-department-italy-trump-election
Meadows Pressed Justice Dept. to Investigate Election Fraud Claims
Emails show the increasingly urgent efforts by President Trump and his allies during his last days in office to find some way to undermine, or even nullify, the election results.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/politics/mark-meadows-justice-department-election.html
Rep. Scott Perry played key role in promoting false claims of fraud June 23, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/23/scott-perry/
Fact check: Claims of electoral fraud in Rome, dubbed 'ItalyGate,' are baseless
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/08/fact-check-italygate-claims-electoral-fraud-rome-baseless/6567335002/
'''THE REAL 2020 ELECTION INTERFERENCE ITALYGATE > ITALIAN MILITARY CONTRACTOR LEONARDO SPA > OBAMA > RENZI > VATICAN'''
Italygate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italygate
The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump’s campaign of disinformationPart I
By ARAM ROSTON, BRAD HEATH, JOHN SHIFFMAN and PETER EISLER in DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas Filed Dec. 15, 2021, noon GMT
INQUIRY: U.S. Army Reserve Lt. Colonel Ivan Raiklin, speaking last month at a pro-Trump election event in New Hampshire, faces a military review after spreading voting conspiracy claims. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
After Donald Trump lost the White House, ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and three other current and former U.S. Army officers challenged the vote’s legitimacy and pushed baseless conspiracy claims. Military ethicists say their actions threaten to weaken the public’s faith in democracy.
By ARAM ROSTON, BRAD HEATH, JOHN SHIFFMAN and PETER EISLER in DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas
Filed Dec. 15, 2021, noon GMT
During the Afghan and Iraq wars, the careers of two military officers often intersected. Army General Michael Flynn and an Army Reserve colonel named Phil Waldron worked together on secret projects in both countries, Waldron said. When Flynn was appointed to run the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012, Waldron said he worked at the DIA’s clandestine service.
Flynn was an intel expert. Waldron’s specialty was psychological operations, or PSYOPs – targeting foreign adversaries, as an Army field manual describes, “to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately, the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.”
Now the two military veterans, along with at least two other retired and reserve officers, are engaged in a new mission, this time with a domestic target: They are central to the far-right effort to persuade Americans that the 2020 election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump.
For the past year, Flynn, Waldron and other intelligence veterans have helped propagate some of the outlandish theories undercutting Americans’ faith in democracy. They pitched false accusations to lawmakers and the public about how the election had been compromised, pushed spurious lawsuits to challenge its outcome, and bankrolled efforts to conduct partisan audits of the results. They provided briefings to members of Congress on methods for overturning the election, and worked aside some of the leading actors in Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement.
“I think we’re doing a huge service,” Waldron told Reuters in an interview.
In these efforts, Flynn, Waldron and their colleagues publicly touted their military-intelligence training, arguing that their expertise on the battlefield provided them special insight into alleged election fraud at home in America.
The military men’s false assertions are dangerous, said Roger Herbert, a former Navy SEAL captain and recently retired ethics professor at the U.S. Naval Academy.
“When retired members of the military, especially senior officers, broadcast wild conspiracies, America’s trust in its military is somewhat eroded,” said Herbert. “But when those conspiracies contend that the current government of the United States is illegitimate, those primal fears of a standing army ready to turn its guns inward and topple our government are justifiably awakened. In short, these people are doing great harm to the legitimacy and efficacy of our military.”
Flynn did not respond to requests for comment for this article. A Trump spokeswoman did not respond to an interview request about the role military figures have played in his quest to overturn the election.
One Army Reserve officer working with Flynn, Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Raiklin, is now facing an internal Army Reserve investigation over whether he violated Reserve rules against partisan political activity, a military official told Reuters. In an election forum last month in New Hampshire, Raiklin touted his military experience – Special Forces commander, deployments battling the Taliban and the MS-13 gang – to say he has the intelligence wherewithal to find fraud. “So I have a little bit of experience looking at threats, right?” he said.
Raiklin declined to be interviewed.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/
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2/12/2025President Trump stated "the Hamas attack and the War in Ukraine would have never happened if "BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS" did not steal the 2020 Election…"
1/24/2025Putin: If Trump's 2020 win wasn't 'stolen,' there'd be no Ukraine war
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that if his American counterpart Donald Trump's victory wasn't "stolen" in 2020, there would be no current crisis in Ukraine.
"I cannot disagree with him that if he had been president,if his victory had not been stolen in 2020, perhaps there wouldn't have been the crisis that arose in 2022,"Putin told Pavel Zarubin, a journalist from the Rossiya TV channel.
Putin previously described the US president as "trusting and pragmatic" and said that it would be better for them to meet "to talk calmly on all those areas that are of interest to both the United States and Russia," noting that Kremlin is 'ready' for those talks.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Putin:-If-Trump%27s-2020-win-wasn%27t-%27stolen%27-there%27d-be-no-Ukraine-war/63410930
2/12/2025President Trump stated "the Hamas attack and the War in Ukraine would have never happened if "BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS" did not steal the 2020 Election…"
1/24/2025Putin: If Trump's 2020 win wasn't 'stolen,' there'd be no Ukraine war
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that if his American counterpart Donald Trump's victory wasn't "stolen" in 2020, there would be no current crisis in Ukraine.
"I cannot disagree with him that if he had been president,if his victory had not been stolen in 2020, perhaps there wouldn't have been the crisis that arose in 2022,"Putin told Pavel Zarubin, a journalist from the Rossiya TV channel.
Putin previously described the US president as "trusting and pragmatic" and said that it would be better for them to meet "to talk calmly on all those areas that are of interest to both the United States and Russia," noting that Kremlin is 'ready' for those talks.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Putin:-If-Trump%27s-2020-win-wasn%27t-%27stolen%27-there%27d-be-no-Ukraine-war/63410930
2/12/2025President Trump stated "the Hamas attack and the War in Ukraine would have never happened if "BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS" did not steal the 2020 Election…"
1/24/2025Putin: If Trump's 2020 win wasn't 'stolen,' there'd be no Ukraine war
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that if his American counterpart Donald Trump's victory wasn't "stolen" in 2020, there would be no current crisis in Ukraine.
"I cannot disagree with him that if he had been president,if his victory had not been stolen in 2020, perhaps there wouldn't have been the crisis that arose in 2022,"Putin told Pavel Zarubin, a journalist from the Rossiya TV channel.
Putin previously described the US president as "trusting and pragmatic" and said that it would be better for them to meet "to talk calmly on all those areas that are of interest to both the United States and Russia," noting that Kremlin is 'ready' for those talks.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Putin:-If-Trump%27s-2020-win-wasn%27t-%27stolen%27-there%27d-be-no-Ukraine-war/63410930