Friday The 13th: ‘Orange Julius’ Caesar Still Not ‘Reinstated’ As President, Mike Lindell’s Epic FraudFest Fail

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Update to Mark Your Calendar For The Latest Apocalyptic Prediction, And Prepare To Have A Good Laugh (excerpt):

Mediaite reports, Mike Lindell Sets August Date for Bonkers Trump Reinstatement Theory: ‘Let’s Get These Communists Out!’ (secret decoder ring: by “Communists” he means Democrats):

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Continuing to tout the latest 2020 election conspiracy theory, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has set a date for Donald Trump’s alleged return to office this summer.

“The morning of August 13, it will be the talk of the world, going, ‘Hurry up! Let’s get this election pulled down,” he told Brannon Howse of Worldview Weekend Broadcast Network. “Let’s right the right. Let’s get these communists out, you know that have taken over.”

According to media watchdog Patriot Takes, which flagged the clip on Twitter, Lindell also claimed, “there will be many down-ticket senators that will have different election results.”

[Lindell] added that liberals like Rachel Maddow will admit that the election was stolen from the former president.

Oh, I’m certain that on Friday, August 13, Rachel Maddow and millions of Americans will be sharing a good laugh at your expense, you lunatic.

It is now after 4:00 p.m. ET on Friday the 13th, and no MAGA/Qanon domestic terrorists (Vanilla ISIS) have shown up at the Capitol. Joe Biden is still president and Kamala Harris is still Vice President. “Orange Julius Caesar” has not been been reinstated as president (this is not an actual thing). Why does anyone listen to this con man asshat?

As for Rachel Maddow, she previewed this asshat’s epic fail on “Friday Eve,” Thursday night.

Maddow’s report was premised on this report from Aaron Blake at the Washington Post. The spectacular implosion of Mike Lindell:

On Tuesday, my colleague Philip Bump wrote about the three-day symposium being put on by stolen-election fantasist and Trump ally Mike Lindell, with the apt headline, “The con is winding down.”

It might now be more apt to say the con has imploded spectacularly.

Lindell has pushed many false, baseless and crazy theories about voter fraud, but the symposium was billed as focusing on one in particular: “irrefutable” proof that hackers backed by China stole the election for Joe Biden. Lindell had the data, and he was going to show it to you over 72 hours. What’s more, his website promised to give $5 million to anybody who could “prove that Mike’s cyber data … is not valid.”

Well, someone has stepped forward to debunk the data — or at least the claims Lindell is making about it. And it’s none other than the cyberexpert Lindell himself hired. Doh!

Josh Merritt, also known as “Spider” or “Spyder” and who was hired by Lindell for his “red team,” told the Washington Times on Wednesday at the symposium that, effectively, Lindell has sold his adherents a bill of goods. Lindell claimed that intercepted network data obtained by other hackers, also known as “packet captures,” could be unencrypted to reveal evidence of vote-switching by the Chinese-backed hackers.

But Merritt has now said that’s just not true.

“So our team said we’re not going to say that this is legitimate if we don’t have confidence in the information,” Merritt said. And it apparently turns out it was not legitimate.

Merritt did still claim that the data provide evidence of manipulated votes, but he made clear it’s not really all it’s cracked up to be.

“We were handed a turd,” he said. “And I had to take that turd and turn it into a diamond. And that’s what I think we did.”

Perhaps an equally damning revelation Wednesday came in something else Merritt said. He confirmed the source of the cyber-data as Dennis Montgomery. It has been suspected that Montgomery was the source, given graphics similar to the ones Lindell has used have appeared on Montgomery’s website, but Merritt confirmed it.

Why is that important? Because Montgomery has, to put it kindly, a spotty history with this kind of thing.

The New York Times reported in 2011 that the U.S. government was trying to keep secret the details of an arrangement in which Montgomery promised to provide technology to catch terrorists. Montgomery claimed he could decode secret al-Qaeda messages embedded in Al Jazeera broadcasts. He received more than $20 million in government contracts.

But his own former lawyer indicated the government was clamming up because the technology was bogus and wanted to avoid embarrassment. He also called him a “con man.” French officials reviewed Montgomery’s work after being wrapped up in the consequences of it — the Bush administration actually grounded certain international flights because of it in 2003 — and came to a similar conclusion. Current and former intelligence officials told PBS in 2014 that it was one of the most elaborate and dangerous hoaxes in U.S. history.

More recently, Montgomery got then-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to pay him $100,000 in money from the sheriff’s office to pursue a theory involving a federal government conspiracy against Arpaio. Arpaio later acknowledged the theory was baseless.

Lindell’s presentation has also frustrated his fellow voter fraud true-believers, according to the Washington Times and other reports, in large part because he has failed to make good on his promise to share the data with them.

J. Kirk Wiebe, a former National Security Agency analyst who has pushed claims of voter fraud, became alienated by Lindell not producing the goods — it turned out because he didn’t actually have them, the Washington Times reports:

He said the scrolling text was likely meant to resemble what the packet captures would look like in the data set but were not actual packet captures, which are vital to prove the claims.
Several cyber experts at the symposium became frustrated late into the first day with not being provided with packet captures.

Mr. Merritt and Mr. Wiebe said the missing packet captures could be a result of either the format the data was sent in or they were withheld by the source of the information, Dennis L. Montgomery.
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But the data Mr. Montgomery sent contains no packet captures and cannot be used to validate Mr. Lindell’s marquee theory, which he planned to unveil at the symposium, said the two experts [Wiebe and Merritt].

Adding insult to injury, those two experts would seem to be in line for a hefty payday — $5 million! — for revealing that Lindell’s data isn’t valid. But Merritt said the offer is no longer on the table.

Update: Lindell’s lawyer has now said that the $5 million offer, which still appears on Lindell’s website, has not been rescinded.

But this fraudster con man is not paying them either.

Even more troubling are the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrectionists from Arizona who attended Mike Lindell’s FraudFest.

https://twitter.com/Lbplamondon/status/1425856119847538693

From Fox Dakota News Now:

Jim Lamon is also attending the event. He’s running for U.S. Senate in Arizona. As one of nine electors for the U.S. Presidential election in his state, he was concerned about the tabulation and reporting process.

“I just feel like it’s my duty to see what I can learn what I can understand to make sure that everything possible is done to ensure this nation and particularly in Arizona, that it was free, fair, and transparent elections,” said Lamon.

He says there is no expectation from the symposium, but that he’s here to learn.

“See if there’s something there that we should all take a look at from across our nation,” said Lamon. “If it was all free and fair then hey I’ll be the first one to stand and salute so let’s move on.”

Lindell was just debunked by his own “experts.” Are you ready to say “let’s move on” now? Or are you fully committed to Trump’s Big Lie?

Note: I previously explained that Friday the 13th is no longer the big day, “Q” has moved the goal posts. Next Seditious Insurrection: Goal Posts Moved, See You In September:

But wait! As with all things QAnon, when one conspiracy theory does not come true, it is all part of Q’s plan, dontcha know? There is always a new Q conspiracy theory to take its place. Q is always moving the goal posts.

Another Trump ally has a new date for the next glorious seditious insurrection by MAGA/QAnon cult members to reinstate “Orange Julius Caesar” as their “Dear Leader.”

Matt Braynard, the former data chief for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, has announced a protest next month at the nation’s Capitol — to rail on behalf of so-called “political prisoners” charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection. (I believe you meant “treasonous traitors”). ‘We’re Going Back To The Capitol’: Ex Trump Campaign Official Announces ‘Huge’ Protest:

“We’re going back to the Capitol, right where it started. And it’s going to be huge,” Matt Braynard told former White House strategist Steve Bannon as he announced the rally on Bannon’s podcast last week.

The protest, “Justice for J6,”  has been set for Sept. 18 at the Capitol. It’s being orchestrated by the group Look Ahead America, headed by Braynard.

So September 18 now.





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3 thoughts on “Friday The 13th: ‘Orange Julius’ Caesar Still Not ‘Reinstated’ As President, Mike Lindell’s Epic FraudFest Fail”

  1. UPDATE: Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department “fully activates department ahead of planned ‘Justice for J6’ protest on Sept. 18”, https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/mpd-fully-activated-planned-september-18-protest-justice-for-j6/65-7c5330f0-d22c-42a0-82f4-9f3daaff2b1e

    In a flash notice sent to all officers and members of the department Thursday, Metropolitan Police activated the entire force and postponed vacation days, in anticipation of a Sept. 18 protest organized by supporters of Jan. 6 defendants.

    The rally, known as “Justice for J6,” is planned for the Union Square area of the Capitol grounds, the section of the west front encompassing the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial and Capitol reflecting pool.

    The full activation alert, sent as Thursday’s Capitol Hill bomb threat investigation continued, assigned specific notice to MPD civil disturbance units trained for First Amendment demonstrations. The department-wide notification has not been previously reported.

    [C]apitol Police officers said they began to hear discussions within the department about the gathering in early August. The developments, and a renewed sense of trepidation, came shortly after the USCP removed the final section of fencing surrounding the Capitol on July 10.

    “Here we go again,” an officer said, describing mixed feelings of hearing the news.

    “‘Back the Blue,’ unless of course, you believe that the attack on the Capitol was a ‘non violent event’ where Capitol Police egged on protesters,” said Tom O’Connor, a retired 22-year veteran of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington, D.C. “The conspiracy theories and false narratives continue to grow and draw in many who in the past actually supported police. If you feel the attack on the U.S. Capitol was not an assault on police officers, you can’t with a clear conscience say you ‘Back the Blue.'”

    “Stop the madness,” O’Connor [said]. “If you broke through the police line, you were part of the problem. You should be charged, tried and if found guilty go to jail and not pass go.”

  2. UPDATE: Former crackhead – are we certain? – Mike Lindell has moved the goal posts again, because grifters gotta grift. The Huffington Post reports “Now Mike Lindell Predicts Trump’s Fantastical Reinstatement Before Year’s End”, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-lindell-trump-reinstatement-2022-alabama-rally_n_6122c878e4b0e5b5d8eb0b85

    MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has once again moved back his expected timetable for Donald Trump’s magical reinstatement to the presidency, this time divining that the historic and utterly fantastical event will occur sometime before 2021 ends.

    “When you steal an election, you don’t just steal an election and we’re going to sit here and go, ‘OK, let’s wait for 2020 — or let’s wait for 2024,’” Lindell told rallygoers in Alabama this weekend. “I’ll tell you what, it’s Trump 2021!”

    He repeated: “That’s what it is, 2021! If we don’t solve 2020, there is no 2022 and 2024.”

  3. The Arizona Mirror reports, “GOP legislators spread debunked claims at Lindell’s ‘Cyber Symposium’”, https://www.azmirror.com/2021/08/12/gop-legislators-spread-debunked-claims-at-lindells-cyber-symposium/

    Three Arizona Republican lawmakers spread spurious allegations and long-debunked claims about the 2020 election on Thursday at a “Cyber Symposium” organized by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

    “We are here to encourage you, to let you know, that we will get to the truth and that you can do it in your states,” Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, told the gathered crowd, which included lawmakers from various other states and prospective candidates about the Arizona Senate’s on-going ballot review of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results.

    Rogers took the stage alongside Sen. Sonny Borrelli and Rep. Mark Finchem at Lindell’s much-ballyhooed “Cyber Symposium” event in South Dakota. The event has been billed as a 72-hour live broadcast in which Lindell and his experts would present “proof” in the form of data he had obtained that China had hacked the United State’s presidential election in favor of President Joe Biden.

    However, one of the cybersecurity experts that Lindell hired told the Washington Times that Lindell failed to provide the data he had long promised to deliver. The expert, Josh Merritt, said the data that Lindell did provide cannot prove China hacked the election.

    “We were handed a turd,” he said.

    At a session Thursday morning, the three Arizona legislators gave the audience advice based on their experiences in Arizona — though much of that advice was centered on claims that have been disproven.

    Finchem, a Republican from Oro Valley, has been one of the major players in the “#StopTheSteal” movement in Arizona and has spread baseless fraud claims since the November election.

    [Wendy] Rogers told the crowd that the “audit” was investigating a QAnon-fueled conspiracy theory that the election outcome was changed because counterfeit ballots were printed in massive numbers and “injected” into the system — so the Senate’s election review team checked to see if the ballots were filled out by machines or humans, as well as examining the folds in the ballots.

    There has been no evidence of fake ballots and the unproven technology the “audit” used is that of an inventor and treasure hunter who is most well known for one of the “worst inventions of all time.”

    Rogers also said that “auditors” did background checks and vetted volunteers, but “didn’t ask, didn’t want to know” about party affiliation, directly contradicting earlier statements by Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan who said his election review team would vet volunteers for bias.

    [A]fter the panel was over, Rogers and Finchem joined lawmakers from other states to announce that they’d be forming an “election integrity caucus” to address issues of voter fraud and to pursue election audits.

    Other attendees had ties to Arizona politics and to the Senate’s “audit.”

    Gubernatorial candidate and former Fox 10 anchor Kari Lake and U.S. Senate candidate Jim Lamon — Republicans who have said they believe Trump rightfully won the election — were in the audience.

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