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Putin: If Trump's 2020 win wasn't 'stolen,' there'd be no Ukraine war1/24/2025

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

'''General Flynn Investigated ITALYGATE https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/'''

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/

SpyTalk

'Italygate' Conspiracy Pusher Was Fired by CIA

The former CIA man at the heart of “Italygate,” the pro-Trump, Qanon-fueled conspiracy theory that satellites and military technology were used to steal the…

https://www.spytalk.co/p/italygate-conspiracy-pusher-was-fired

YouTube

Defense Secretary Called Italy To Debunk Ridiculous 'Italygate' Conspiracy Theory

An MSNBC panel discusses the nationally embarrassing revelation in the fifth January 6th hearing that U.S. Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller was made…

https://youtu.be/Qlc88sV7TP4

PolitiZoom

Katie Phang Talks Me Through Today's “Italygate” Testimony

I work during the day and so didn't get to follow the J6 Committee Hearing as closely as I should, and when I did get home there was the scurrilous SCOTUS…

https://politizoom.com/katie-phang-talks-me-through-todays-italygate-testimony/

The Washington Post

Rep. Scott Perry played key role in promoting false claims of fraud

Of all the fantastical false claims of fraud and vote manipulation in the 2020 presidential election, “Italygate” was one of the most extreme. And Rep.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/23/scott-perry/

Yahoo News

Defense secretary called Italy to debunk ridiculous 'Italygate' conspiracy theory

An MSNBC panel discusses the nationally embarrassing revelation in the fifth January 6th hearing that U.S. Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller was made…

https://news.yahoo.com/defense-secretary-called-italy-debunk-051013621.html

https://conservativefiringline.com/breaking-arturo-delia-caught-head-of-italian-aerospace-companys-it-department-used-military-grade-cyber-warfare-to-switch-votes-for-trump-to-biden/

'''THE REAL 2020 ELECTION INTERFERENCE ITALYGATE > ITALIAN MILITARY CONTRACTOR LEONARDO SPA > OBAMA > RENZI > VATICAN'''

Italygate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italygate

==FLYNN HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE [FLYNN] IVAN RAIKLIN HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE [IVAN RAIKLIN] > [FLYNN] AND [RAIKLIN] WERE NOT "INVESTIGATING" ITALYGATE, [THEY] WERE COVERING ITALYGATE UP > READ THE FULL ARTICLE BELOW==

The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump’s campaign of disinformation

By ARAM ROSTON, BRAD HEATH, JOHN SHIFFMAN and PETER EISLER 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.

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.

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.

“When retired members of the military, especially senior officers, broadcast wild conspiracies, America’s trust in its military is somewhat eroded.”

Roger Herbert, recently retired ethics professor at the U.S. Naval Academy

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/

The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump’s campaign of disinformation

Waldron says he and the Flynn circle are not using military techniques on Americans. He maintains the actions they are undertaking for Trump don’t undercut American democracy because he’s convinced they are ferreting out voter fraud.

The veterans’ false claims shifted over time. They have pinned Trump’s loss on actions by the Chinese government and voting technology companies, alleged misconduct by U.S. state and local election officials and said hackers had used the internet to change votes after they were cast. They have blamed old-school ballot stuffing, perhaps involving dead voters or Venezuelan interests.

Though bogus, their claims and similar ones propagated by others have had major impact, inspiring Trump followers who participated in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and providing rhetorical fuel for continued efforts to discredit Joe Biden’s victory. Despite no evidence to support the claims, nearly 6 in 10 Republicans believe the election was stolen, a Reuters/Ipsos poll in October found.

The military-intelligence officers’ battle is part of a larger Republican movement that has led disgruntled Trump voters to endorse threats of violence as a means to regaining power. As Reuters has documented, Trump supporters are waging a campaign of intimidation against election workers around the country. In a review of more than 800 emails, calls and online posts made by backers of the ex-president, Reuters found that some of the military veterans’ theories have been referenced in hostile messages to local election officials and featured in public campaigns attacking the vote’s integrity.

A false claim pushed by Flynn and his cohorts that voting machines were hacked to steal votes from Trump is a common theme in many angry messages. The machines “are rigged to elect only those who care nothing for the people,” said an email accusing election officials in Yavapai County, Arizona, of complicity. Invoking General Flynn by name, the writer added, “every lie will be revealed, every traitor will be punished.”

Efforts by Flynn to help Trump overturn Biden’s victory have been the subject of extensive reporting by a number of U.S. media outlets. The Reuters examination of Flynn and his colleagues provides new details about the origins of the former intelligence officials’ collaboration and the extent to which they worked together in a bid to undo the 2020 election.

The reporting, based on interviews with participants, military ethicists and others, plus an examination of Reuters’ database of threats against election officials, reveals how Flynn drafted Waldron and others to actively contest the 2020 vote. Flynn and his small circle were distinctive because their military credentials provided a patina of respectability to even the most far-fetched claims.

Among the military veterans to play a role in “Stop the Steal” were:

Flynn, Trump’s first National Security Advisor in 2017, who was involved in pushing the most dramatic of conspiracy claims. He urged the president to deploy the military to overturn the election in December 2020, then went on a public speaking campaign sowing doubts about the vote and urging states to conduct their own reviews.

Waldron, who insists Trump won. He gained attention last week when the House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6 riot revealed it was in possession of a PowerPoint presentation he’d shown to U.S. lawmakers outlining methods for overturning the election. Earlier, he lobbied state officials and spoke on rightwing media about his stolen-election theories. Waldron said Flynn drafted him to go public, saying, “No one else can do it. It needs to be done, so go ahead and do it!”

Raiklin, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who has known Flynn since 2014, when he said they both worked on military intelligence matters. Raiklin is an attorney and a leading promoter of the “Pence card” theory – in which Vice President Mike Pence purportedly could have blocked the January 6 certification by Congress of Biden’s victory.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/

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The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump’s campaign of disinformation

Seth Keshel, a former Army captain who worked in intelligence and who claimed to have developed statistical models that prove the 2020 election results were fraudulent. After the election, Keshel told Reuters he contacted Flynn on LinkedIn and they began collaborating. Keshel in August released an analysis which he claimed showed Trump won seven states that went to Biden. Trump embraced the claim, saying the report came from a “highly respected Army intelligence captain.”

Keshel told Reuters he stands by that assessment but never called for violence. “Personally, I believe the election was compromised,” he said, adding, “I can’t control anybody else.”

Though they haven’t worked together on every particular, the four have intersected in their efforts, with Flynn the common denominator. Raiklin has said he worked with Flynn. Keshel said he reached out to the general to share his concerns, and the two worked together in the weeks after the election. Waldron said Flynn pushed him to go public with his research.

Keshel’s work helped fuel calls by Trump followers in many states for audits of the election results. His analysis, which provided no documented evidence of fraud, was discredited by political scientists, statistical experts and Republican and Democratic election officials. In a post on Telegram, Keshel himself described his study as “lenient.”

His work nonetheless spurred a torrent of emails to election officials in areas where his analysis suggested fraud. In Pasco County, Florida, a Republican county Trump won, officials were deluged with emails demanding an audit after Keshel’s report. Keshel’s analysis “is literally devoid of statistical validity,” said Brian Corley, the Republican county supervisor of elections. “People just took it as fact.”

The Department of Defense did not respond to a request for comment on the Flynn circle’s activities.

Pauline Shanks Kaurin, a professor of military ethics at the U.S. Naval War College, said a key issue is whether Flynn’s associates are publicly citing their military training to lend legitimacy to a partisan political cause.

“If you’re talking to an audience that cares what General Flynn thinks, and you tell the audience, ‘I did this in this military,’ then they’re more likely to be impressed,” said Shanks Kaurin. She said she was speaking in her personal capacity, not on behalf of her government employer.

Waldron disputes such criticism. “I took an oath to protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I believe that our republic is under attack from foreign and domestic enemies,” he said. “They want to undermine the republic through the election process.”

Earlier this month, a Reuters reporter met with Waldron at One Shot Distillery and Brewing, which he runs on Texas Hill Country’s “Whiskey Trail.” Silver-labeled bottles of rum, vodka and whiskey were on display as Waldron descended the stairs wearing a gray One Shot Distillery t-shirt, with a Glock-19 in a holster fastened to his belt.

Waldron, with an affable bearing and a beard dappled with gray, retired as an Army Reserve colonel in 2016. He said he’s fighting powerful forces in a quest for the truth.

“You talk about PSYOPS,” he said. “The election (voting machine) companies and the media have done the biggest PSYOP on the American people.”

In a series of interviews this year, Waldron vowed he was on the cusp of breakthrough proof the election was stolen. “We are decrypting the satellite packets right now,” he said in January. In October, he cited a “37 terabyte” tranche of data he believed could unmask fraud.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/

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The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump’s campaign of disinformation

A new mission

Four days after the election, as ballot counts continued in a handful of swing states, the U.S. media projected Biden had won, establishing an insurmountable lead.

Trump refused to concede. That day, November 7, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, then Trump’s lawyer, held a press conference in Philadelphia in which he claimed the result had been swayed by suspect mail-in ballots and votes cast in the names of dead people.

The next day, Waldron said he was on the phone with Representative Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas. Waldron, who ran a cyber security company after leaving the military, said he had been researching vote hacking since August; Biden’s victory accelerated his efforts. Waldron said he told Gohmert he had tracked internet traffic routed through a server in Frankfurt, Germany. Votes could be rerouted, too, he told Gohmert. Election officials say this assertion is false, and no evidence for it exists.

Gohmert immediately called Trump, Waldron said. A spokesman for Gohmert declined to comment.

Two days later, Waldron said, he was on a plane to Washington. “It started getting sporty about then,” he said, with his theories gaining traction.

First he met with Sidney Powell, the lawyer for his old commander, Flynn. Waldron said he met Powell in a hotel conference room that functioned as her headquarters, briefing her in the early morning hours. A lawyer who worked with Powell, Howard Kleinhendler, confirms Waldron was part of the group. Powell declined to comment.

Then Waldron huddled with Giuliani. “We were supposed to have a 10 minute briefing but it went 45 minutes,” Waldron said. When Giuliani said he wanted to discuss voter fraud, Waldron said he pressed upon the former mayor that the fraud was on a larger, and global, scale. “We kept going over it and going over it. He finally came aboard,” he said.

Giuliani did not respond to interview requests. He confirmed in a legal deposition that Waldron shared fraud allegations with him.

“Colonel in the military, great war record,” Giuliani testified. “I’ve had substantial dealings with him and he’s very, very thorough and very experienced in this kind of work.”

By the second week of November, Waldron said he began working closely with Flynn.

After a stellar military career, Flynn was appointed chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency by President Barack Obama, but was fired in 2014, in part because the two clashed over the general’s hardline views on countering Islamic extremism. Flynn became a key 2016 Trump campaign advisor and was installed by the new president as national security advisor. He resigned weeks later after it was disclosed that he had held secret talks with Russia’s ambassador about U.S. sanctions before Trump took office. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about those talks. Trump would eventually pardon him.

In the days after Biden won the 2020 election, Flynn had set up camp at the sprawling South Carolina estate of lawyer L. Lin Wood, another supporter of Trump’s effort to overturn the election.

Wood told Reuters that Flynn and Powell arrived shortly after the election. So did Keshel, then working as a technology salesman. Flynn and Keshel stayed through Thanksgiving, where Flynn carved the turkey.

The group, operating from a sitting room on Wood’s estate, created something of a clearinghouse for election fraud claims. “They all appeared to be working together,” Wood said.

In an interview, Keshel said he spent his time “scanning the numbers and helping write affidavits” for lawsuits Powell was preparing. “There wasn’t a lot of sleep going on there,” Keshel said.

Powell’s lawsuits helped fuel some of the hostility encountered by local officials. Georgia’s Republican governor and secretary of state debunked Powell’s allegations of election fraud, citing audits and recounts affirming the state’s tallies. In response, one angry emailer accused them of resisting further investigation “because of the Sidney Powell lawsuits and vengeance and no other reason. … We know China interfered with this election by remote and shipped mail in ballots.”

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/

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The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump’s campaign of disinformation

A clandestine operative goes public

Three weeks after the election, Giuliani and his associates pushed a new strategy: attempting to persuade conservative state legislatures to simply disregard the election results and declare Trump the winner of their states’ Electoral College votes. The Constitution, Trump’s team argued, granted this power.

With Pennsylvania a focus, Flynn dispatched Waldron to a state Senate hearing held by Republican lawmakers there.

For decades, Waldron had operated behind the scenes. So, he told Reuters, in November 2020 he initially resisted going public with his findings. But he said Flynn and Giuliani pressed him to testify about stolen votes. “Rudy’s team had asked me three times.”

On November 25, wearing a blue jacket, blue shirt, striped tie and blue COVID mask, Waldron appeared in person at the Pennsylvania Senate hearing to air his fraud claims. He cited his military credentials. “I’m a retired Army colonel, 30 years,” he said. Then he claimed all the voting machine technology in the United States could be hacked.

“I took an oath to protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I believe that our republic is under attack.”

Phil Waldron, 30-year military veteran

“Our experts and other academics,” Waldron continued, “believe that up to 1.2 million Pennsylvania votes could have been altered or fraudulent.” Only a “detailed forensic analysis of the actual machines and software will truly show how many Pennsylvania citizens have had their civil rights violated.”

At the end of the hearing, President Trump joined in on the speaker phone. “I’ve been watching the hearing on OAN,” the far-right television news channel, Trump said. “I’m in the Oval Office right now, and it’s very interesting to see what’s going on.”

Waldron said he visited the White House later that day with Giuliani and others. “That was great!” he said Trump told them.

The White House focus turned to pushing Republican-led legislatures in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia to replace Biden electors with those for Trump. “That whole strategy started from that Pennsylvania hearing,” Waldron said.

That same day, Trump pardoned Flynn in the Russia inquiry case.

In the end, no state legislatures swapped out their electors. Now Flynn helped pitch a new plan to Trump.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/

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"If they kill TRUMP, that's the best case scenario, on a sick level…"

Ivan Raiklin and Alex Jones take on if they Assassinate Donald Trump

timestamp: 00:00:47 Alex Jones "If they kill him, that's the best case scenario, on a sick level…"….

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Ivan Raiklin in Studio on Infowars with Alex Jones 2:20 PM · Feb 2, 2024

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Ivan Raiklin. Self: The Lindell Report. Ivan Raiklin was born on 29 February 1976.

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WHO IS TRULY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR?

"A Piece of the Apple of his Eye is the Prize"

3/7/2025"This war would have never happened" "Iran became Rich" "It's gonna be a Big thing" "Very, very soon" "Rather see a Peace deal but the "OTHER" will solve the problem" "Noble Peace Prize" Donald J. Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMy-94fm6s0

2/13/2025Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump Feb 13, 2025, 6:52 AM

"GREAT TALKS WITH RUSSIA AND UKRAINE YESTERDAY. GOOD POSSIBILITY OF ENDING THAT HORRIBLE, VERY BLOODY WAR!!!"

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

'''General Flynn and Ivan Raiklin Investigated ITALYGATE. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/'''