President Trump released a lengthy written statement on June 13, 2022. You can download a PDF here: Statement By President Donald J. Trump. The statement is detailed and includes many footnotes. The language was deliberately chosen as was the timing.
In this podcast, I’m reading through the statement with no commentary. If you prefer to read it yourself, you can download the PDF. If you would like to listen to someone read it while you do other things, then I’m making this available.
I’d love to hear in the comments what stands out to you. A number of items jumped out at me which I’ll write a bit about in the comments.
“Seventeen months after” resonates with Q/Anon stuff (Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet).
Trump has a talent for getting right down to the fundamental issues.
He is going after narratives, largely by asking questions. Thirty of them. One of his Antrim County questions was about how the total number of votes went up by over 2,000 votes between the first unofficial election results and the second, and then went back down in the third set–but not to the same number as at first.
It seems they double-reported results from a couple of precincts after attempting to correct the “software glitch”, and then they had to release another correction.
Along the way, three ballots went missing. One of them was the decisive vote in the ballot question that the Antrim County election fraud lawsuit was about. All three ballots are still officially missing. The judge dismissed the lawsuit because an “audit” had already been done–but it was only of the presidential race and did not count the relevant votes. You’d think a respected circuit court judge who is himself an elected official would understand that.
Also, the crucial missing ballot was already missing by that point.
Trump spent one page out of twelve on Antrim County. Election security expert Dr. Alex Halderman took 54 pages to report on the numerous Antrim County 2020 election errors, some of which were never corrected. He was easily able to hack into a copy of Antrim’s EMS computer and into the election data on it without any passwords at all. The Michigan Secretary of State uses his report as evidence that there was no election fraud:
https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/sos/30lawens/Antrim.pdf
Dr. Halderman has a report on Georgia election security that Judge Amy Totenberg ordered sealed in October 2020 to avoid revealing a vulnerability.
A CNN editor’s response to Trump’s statement:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/politics/donald-trump-statement-january-6-committee/index.html
Here’s the editor’s only response to number 20–Trump’s list of woes being experienced by the American people now under the Biden administration:
“This sentence is 53 words long. Yup.”