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Twitter files unmask censorship Election integrity volunteers 'afraid' to attend recount after Michigan AG threatens prosecution collaboration with feds, earlier effort to hamper Trump account
Many of the volunteers, seeking to "scrutinize" Michigan's election process in the aftermath of two controversial ballot proposals, melted away after Democratic AG warned of law enforcement response to possible "criminal acts." EDITOR’S NOTE—This section is reserved as an editorial and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.
There’s a guy on Rumble who’s spouting some serious allegations that we are living in a US Military Occupancy. Derek Johnson, a military veteran says that the military occupancy is defined in the Law of War Manual. He says it is also paralleled with the Military Justice Act of 2016. “We are a nation of laws and orders and we have a Constitution that runs this country,” said Johnson in a Ruble video. “We don’t have honesty. We don’t have integrity. We haven’t had accountability. We haven’t had responsibility in many, many, many years. We’ve had a lot of people for their own agendas and own narratives. That’s being ousted.” Johnson says Joe Biden is not currently president and has never been president. He says the military is in control and is fighting battles such as child trafficking, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and money laundering. He states that a continuation of government had to be in place for the people to see— such as a visual president. “Donald Trump was a military plug that was planted to be the Commander in Chief for the military occupancy,” said Johnson who cited the 1,236-page Law of War Manual. “When you get to about page seven, come holler at your boy because it’s boring and it’s tough to read and you’re going to need someone like me to break it down for you from the military side of things.” Is all of this just nonsense? Is it just someone who met with Donald Trump recently and wants attention? You be the judge: Video
By Aaron Kliegman An apparent threat by Michigan's Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel to arrest and prosecute local activists promoting election integrity and anti-voter fraud efforts caused many of them to steer clear of a contentious monitoring effort out of fear of being targeted by the government, according to a Michigan attorney deeply involved in the situation. Across Michigan on Wednesday, dozens of counties and hundreds of precincts began a recount for two controversial ballot proposals that were approved by voters on Nov. 8. The first measure in question is Proposal 2, which establishes early voting, expands access to absentee voting and preempts Republican efforts to enact more stringent voter ID rules. The other measure is Proposal 3, which enshrines abortion rights in the state's constitution. The recount was triggered by the efforts of Election Integrity Force (EIF), a group that says it seeks "transparent and trusted" elections. The effort is unlikely to reverse the proposals, which were approved by comfortable margins. Still, volunteer election challengers affiliated with EIF showed up to observe the recount, requesting access to look for errors or irregularities on ballots and ballot boxes. Daniel Hartman, an
attorney in Michigan who's been working with EIF and closely monitoring the recount effort, said the recount is meant to "scrutinize" Michigan's election process more so than to overturn the proposals.
the incident to law enforcement. Despite the incident, county elections director Jennifer Crews maintained the recount "went really well" overall.
Former president was being “visibility filtered” well before being banned.
By John Solomon
Twitter executives engaged in extensive collaboration with federal There were reports of law enforcement as they disturbances in other are- escalated censorship ac"There was a great turnas such as Wayne County, tivities on the platform out on Wednesday," he told Just the News. "This where a challenger and an during the 2020 election, election supervisor argued including an earlier effort was a group of unpaid to hamper Donald volunteers who appeared over the recount proceTrump’s social media from all walks of life and dure. The challenger maintained a calm tone visibility prior to banning peacefully assembled but threatened to take le- his account. with short notice to pargal action. ticipate in the recount The explosive new reveprocess. They got involved because it was the These incidents were re- lations were made public ported to Nessel's office, by independent journalist right thing to do." which proceeded to issue Matt Taibbi on Friday night, facilitated by TwitEIF released a statement a statement on Wednester‘s new owner, Elon Wednesday night claim- day night. Musk. ing the first day of the "Recent reports of threatrecount revealed ening behavior and inter- The files make clear that "evidence of ballot box ference at locations where the FBI flagged specific tampering" without providing evidence. The recounts are taking place content for censorship cause unnecessary disand that Twitter execugroup's executive director, Sandy Kiesel, echoed turbances and may even tives met not only with those allegations in a vid- rise to the level of crimi- the bureau, but also with teams from Homeland eo message on Thursday. nal acts," said Nessel. "My department is moni- Security and the Director toring the situation closely of National Intelligence While most recounts and will not hesitate to act as the war against were smooth, volunteer should circumstances “misinformation” escachallengers filed police demand a response from lated it in the final weeks reports in multiple prelaw enforcement." of the 2020 presidential cincts when their efforts election. seeking access to the ballots were rebuffed, claim- Supporters of the recount seemed to read the state- Earlier Friday, Taibbi also ing election workers released files detailing the were violating the law by ment as a threat. momentous decision to denying their requests. "The attorney general boot Trump from the without any grounds isplatform after the Jan. 6, In Jackson County, for sued a press release that 2021 Capitol riot, while example, challengers he was still America’s observing the Proposal 3 she's investigating the people participating in the 45th president. recount asked to inspect recount for harassing and election equipment and interfering with election Later in the evening, the to see the entire ballot, not just the proposal sec- workers," said Hartman. journalist released internal communications contion, according to the MLive news site, which He described how signifi- firming Twitter execucantly less people showed tives also engaged in earnoted they were denied because the recount only up to support the recount lier effort to hamper on Thursday, noting sar- Trump’s visibility and covers the proposal castically the drop-off engagement on the platvotes. One challenger wasn't because people form in the final days of claimed the election "suddenly lost interest." the presidential election. workers rebuffing them (Continued on page 23) “Trump was being was illegal and reported ‘visibility filtered’ as late as a week before the election,” Taibbi wrote, attaching contemporaneous internal communications that validated the claim. “Here, senior execs didn’t appear to have a particular violation, but still worked fast to make sure a fairly anodyne
Trump tweet couldn’t be ‘replied to, shared, or liked.’” Once completed with the action, a Twitter executive marveled about how quickly the platform was able to censor America’s sitting president, the communications show. "Very well done on speed folks, what this is all designed for and a huge positive for the platform," one employee wrote. In another effort targeting Trump before his suspension, Twitter employees discussed putting a “mail -in voting is safe” warning label on a Trump tweet about a postal screwup in Ohio, before realizing “the events took place,” which meant the tweet was “factually accurate,” Taibbi wrote. Many efforts were given to monitor Republican claims of election meddling, even when former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made a joke about filing fake ballots from his deceased relatives. “The group declares Huck’s an ‘edge case,” and though one notes, ‘we don’t make exceptions for jokes or satire,’ they ultimately decide to leave him be, because ‘we’ve poked enough bears,’” Taibbi narrated. Some censorship efforts targeting specific American Republicans came at the behest of the FBI, the files indicated. “Here, the FBI sends reports about a pair of tweets, the second of which involves a former Tippecanoe County, Indiana Councilor and Republican named @JohnBasham claiming ‘Between 2% and 25% of Ballots by Mail are Being Rejected for Errors.,’” Taibbi noted. Such contact with federal law enforcement became routine in the final weeks of the election, with executives talking about weekly meetings with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and even the office of the top intelligence executive in government. One internal (Continued on page 23)
