WSB Debunks 'Smoking Gun' Ballot Box Video Giuliani Pushed
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Via: john-russell • 4 years ago • 5 commentsBy: Reed Richardson (Mediaite)
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By Reed RichardsonDec 4th, 2020, 7:53 pm
A local TV news station in Atlanta thoroughly dismantled yet another conspiracy theory being promoted by the Trump campaign as "smoking gun" evidence, going frame by frame through the video in question to debunk every one of the claims.
On Friday evening, WSB Channel 2 challenged an explosive but baseless claim made by Trump campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who tweeted out a short clip of CCTV surveillance video taken from Atlanta's State Farm Arena. It showed Georgia election workers pulling ballot boxes out from under a table and then feeding them in to electronic scanners for counting. Giuliani claimed this occurred after election observers had been ordered away and the ballot boxes were actually surreptitiously-placed "suitcases" of phony ballots for Biden.
But as WSB investigative reporter Justin Gray explained, almost everything Giuliani said happened did not.
"We spent a lot of time today with the state's lead investigator," Gray noted. "We looked at that video for hours, going through it very carefully, looking not just at that short clip that Rudy Giuliani shared, but also the critical hours before it and after it, going through the chain of custody for those ballots in question the entire time."
WSB then ran footage of Gray reviewing the video with a Georgia Secretary of State investigator and the state's election chief, Gabriel Sterling, who has called out President Donald Trump for fueling violent threats against state officials and blasted the president's rambling, 46-minute Facebook election rant as "looney tunes."
Georgia election investigator Frances Watson elaborated on what the full video revealed.
"We can show. yeah exactly when [the ballot boxes] were placed under there," she pointed out.
"If we go back in the video hours before, you can see that table being brought into the room at 8:22 a.m. Nothing underneath. No hidden suitcases. Then we can see at 10:00p.m., with a room full of people, including official monitors in the media, as ballots that have been opened but not counted are placed in the boxes sealed up and stored under the table," Gray reported.
Sterling also shot down Giuliani's distorted misinformation.
"No magical appearing ballots, these were ballots that were processed in front of monitors," he explained. "These are just typical everyday election workers who were just doing their jobs. I mean, it's not like this is an Oceans 11-level scheme has put together in the middle of the night."
Gray wrapped up his report noting that Watson had reviewed all the relevant video and facts about the claim and concluded there was "no evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing."
Watch the video above, via WSB-TV.
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Trump is going to Georgia today to spread lies about this very thing.
How does this continue to happen?
Why does he still have supporters?
As the saying goes, there's a sucker born every minute. Donald has fooled millions of suckers who desperately don't want anyone to know they're suckers so they have to keep pretending their naked Emperor is wearing clothes.
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MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell Spews Unhinged Lunacy on Fox News, Says Trump Will ‘100 Percent’ Be President For ‘Next 4 Years’
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell claimed President Donald Trump would continue to serve as president for “the next four years,” despite losing to Joe Biden , during a bizarre interview on Fox News, Friday.
Live from a protest outside Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s house, Lindell told Fox News, “I want the word to get out that Donald Trump will be our president for the next four years.”
“I talked to Sidney Powell about three, four days ago, so I know firsthand,” he explained, adding, “When I go all in like I did for the president in 2016, I do my due diligence and I get out there, and I could sit here and tell you, 100%. Not 98, 100%.”
“We are going all the way across the country, I sponsored this, and we are going to end up in D.C.,” Lindell continued. “I want people to have the awareness of what went on because the mainstream media is not showing you this, but all the corruption, by the time it’s all opened up here and they see it, even the Democrats are going to go, ‘Wow, at least my party tried to steal it.'”
Giuliani could have used a MyPillow the other day to muffle his farts as he cried about being defamed.