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by USNN2020December 3, 2020February 26, 2025

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) highlighted alleged election irregularities in Georgia’s Fulton County in recent days, saying that a county election employee wiped a server clean. Loudermilk told Newsmax that a judge over the weekend “basically impounded certain voting machines” to make sure that data wasn’t wiped. But Loudermilk noted that “Fulton County effectively wiped its data because an IT technician which appears to be a county employee used the wrong server for the recount after Dominion told him not to use that server.” He appeared to be referring to a server crash during the second recount in Georgia. A spokesperson for Fulton County told The Epoch Times that a “newly purchased Dominion mobile server crashed” on Sunday, referring to a Dominion Voting Systems machine. “Technicians from Dominion have been dispatched to resolve the issue,” the spokesperson said. The crash delayed the recount in Fulton County, which had processed 88 percent of the ballots that were cast at the time of the crash. “And just in case there was a problem they backed up the data but they backed it up on the same server that crashed. Now we’re looking at do we even have the data on the Fulton County servers. We don’t know,” Loudermilk added. Fulton County, which leans heavily Democratic, includes the state capitol and largest city, Atlanta. Loudermilk represents Georgia’s 11th Congressional District, including some of Atlanta’s northern suburbs. Fulton County has not yet responded to a request for comment regarding Loudermilk’s claims. Secretary of State spokesman Gabriel Sterling said that claims that the server was wiped clean are not accurate. “It has nothing to do with servers being wiped. Nobody directed that. That’s just a lie. It’s made up out of whole cloth. And it is the kind of stuff we are having to deal with,” Sterling said on Monday. Sterling said that Fulton County did a poor job in informing the public, leading to what he termed as “rampant speculation.” He also said Fulton County only had one technician on hand. “Every other county has managed to pull this off pretty well. Fulton County on this one particular thing didn’t get it right,” Sterling said. In a press conference on Tuesday, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the crash happened because a county employee “backed up the election project on the server itself instead of on an external backup.” “Because of that decision, they lost the ability to upload hundreds of thousands of scanned ballots,” he added. Fulton County told The Epoch Times that the Dominion server was “operated in accordance with the Secretary of State’s published guidelines.” The county added that it expects the recount to be completed by the Dec. 3 deadline. Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.

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GOP Congressman: IT Technician ‘Effectively Wiped’ Election Data From Servers in Fulton County

by USNN2020December 3, 2020February 26, 2025

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by USNN2020December 3, 2020January 12, 2021

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Trump Calls for ‘Full Forensic Audit’ of Mail-In Ballots

by USNN2020December 2, 2020January 12, 2021

Commentary Attorney General William Barr signaled on Tuesday that he has washed his hands of the president. He told the media that the Department of Justice has found no evidence of fraud that would change the election results in favor of Donald Trump. U.S. officials I spoke with do not understand Barr’s motivation for speaking to a press corps typically hostile to him as well as Trump. “There’s no evidence that the DOJ spoke with any of the numerous witnesses with first-hand knowledge of election fraud,” said one senior official. “And many people reached out directly to the FBI and got no response back.” The effect of Barr’s statement is to derail the Trump campaign’s efforts to reverse the vote in battleground states contested by the president’s legal team. It is difficult to imagine state legislatures or courts taking up the campaign’s cause when the headlines show that Trump’s own attorney general says nothing is wrong. By distancing himself from the president’s political fortunes, Barr gave his bona fides as an honest broker in order to resolve the issue that most matters to him—salvaging the reputation of the institution he’s led twice, the Justice Department. He revealed Tuesday that he’d appointed John Durham special counsel to continue his nearly two-year-long probe into the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s discredited investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign. According to Barr, the scope of the investigation he asked the U.S. attorney from Connecticut to lead in May 2019 has “narrowed considerably.” At first, it seemed sprawling. The two men reportedly traveled to Italy and contacted officials in the United Kingdom and Australia to gather information on foreign nationals allegedly involved in Crossfire Hurricane. In August, Durham interviewed former CIA director John Brennan for eight hours. In September, the prosecutor reportedly sought information on the FBI’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation. Republican officials reasoned that it was precisely because the investigation was so large and thorough that it was taking Durham so much time to deliver indictments. Reports claimed that he kept finding new evidence, was following more leads. On Tuesday, Barr said Durham’s work now “really is focused on the activities of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation within the FBI.” Perhaps Barr believes that limiting the investigation’s scope will convince a Biden White House that it does not threaten his administration. After all, a thorough investigation would have to look at Biden’s pick for National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. What did the former Hillary Clinton campaign advisor know about the FBI’s role in the anti-Trump operation when he was briefing the press on “collusion” and tweeting out stories sourced to Clinton contractor and FBI source Christopher Steele? What did John Kerry, Biden’s choice for climate envoy, do with Steele’s Trump-Russia reports when they were passed to him as secretary of state? And why did then-Vice President Biden direct the FBI to look at Trump’s national security advisor Michael Flynn for violating the Logan Act? There’s nothing to stop Biden from dismissing Durham. Trump reportedly considered firing Robert Mueller at least twice. But the president’s legal team defended the probity of the coup targeting their client. “I would never have anything to do with any attempts to attack Bob Mueller’s integrity,” said the former spokesman for the White House’s legal team, Mark Corallo. In other words, the aides hired to defend Trump were less concerned with the stability of the U.S. government than the prospect that their reputations would be trashed in the press. A Biden administration will be lauded by the media for disarming a weapon dangerous to “democracy” if—when—Durham is fired, and any charges made are withdrawn. But the only Americans likely to be shocked by a cover-up of that magnitude are Trump voters. And they are no longer capable of being shocked by the corruption of the Democratic Party and its media partners after watching, for example, the press bury news of the Biden family’s financial ties to a Chinese regime responsible for a pandemic that left hundreds of thousands of Americans dead and tens of millions unemployed. It’s not clear why Durham can make a case now that he wasn’t able to make in a year and a half. He was rumored to be concerned that bringing charges or releasing a report too close to the election would look like a political hit job, and the investigation, conducted by a career prosecutor proud of his reputation as a “straight-shooter,” had to be above reproach. Only self-regard blinded him to the irony—his discretion left the rule of law liable to the outcome of a political contest. The subject of his investigation—corruption at the highest levels of government—was all the evidence he needed that its integrity would depend entirely on a Trump victory. Failing to bring charges, or even filing a report, for interfering in the 2016 election, was an invitation to interfere in the 2020 race. If no one was held accountable for what they did four years ago, there was little risk this time out. And now Barr speaks out to downplay the Trump campaign’s claims of election fraud when it is precisely because of the actions and decisions taken by the institution he cherishes that half of America has lost its faith in the justice system as well as the electoral process. On such things much smaller than war hang the fate of nations. Lee Smith is the author of the recently published book, “The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President.”

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Barr Fails to Salvage DOJ’s Reputation With Statements on Election Fraud

by USNN2020December 2, 2020January 12, 2021

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Trump Team to File Lawsuit: 40,000 People Voted Twice in Nevada

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DOJ Not Done Investigating Election Fraud, Spokesperson Says

by USNN2020December 2, 2020March 1, 2025

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Powell: Dominion Server Removed From Fulton County While Lawyers Sought Restraining Order

by USNN2020December 1, 2020January 12, 2021

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Barr Reveals He Appointed Durham as Special Counsel

by USNN2020December 1, 2020June 29, 2024

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