• OT: Really: is anyone surprised by this?

    From Alan@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 17 18:11:26 2022
    "Trump White House aide was secret author of report used to push ‘big lie’

    Report on Dominion voting machines produced after 2020 election was not
    the work of volunteer in Trump’s post-election legal team"

    <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/16/trump-white-house-aide-secret-author-dominion-report>

    "The previously unreported involvement of the Trump White House aide in
    the preparation of the Dominion report raises the extraordinary
    situation of at least one administration official being among the
    original sources of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

    The publicly available version of the Dominion report, which first
    surfaced in early December 2020 on the conservative outlet the Gateway
    Pundit, names on the cover and in metadata as its author Katherine
    Friess, a volunteer on the Trump post-election legal team.

    But the Dominion report was in fact produced by the senior Trump White
    House policy aide Joanna Miller, according to the original version of
    the document reviewed by the Guardian and a source familiar with the
    matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

    The original version of the Dominion report named Miller - who worked
    for the senior Trump adviser Peter Navarro – as the author on the cover
    page, until her name was abruptly replaced with that of Friess before
    the document was to be released publicly, the source said."

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