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Nevilledog

(51,006 posts)
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 03:55 PM Oct 2021

Rudy Guiliani says he got election fraud 'evidence' from Facebook





https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-guiliani-says-he-got-election-fraud-evidence-from-facebook-2021-10?amp


Rudy Giuliani admitted under oath that his "evidence" of voter fraud in the 2020 election came partly from social media and that he did not interview or fact-check his sources, reports say.

Donald Trump's former personal lawyer made the comments in a deposition on August 14 in relation to a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Dominion Voting Systems employee, Eric Coomer, first published by The Colorado Sun.

Coomer is suing the Trump campaign and others for promoting baseless conspiracy theories that he helped "rig" the election for Joe Biden.

In the deposition, Giuliani admitted that he got some of his information about Coomer's alleged role in the election fraud from his social media posts but couldn't be sure if it was Facebook or another platform.

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Rudy Guiliani says he got election fraud 'evidence' from Facebook (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2021 OP
Facebook - the source of all true knowledge. dalton99a Oct 2021 #1
"It must be true. I read it on the internet." Wow. Beartracks Oct 2021 #2
Meh...he DID put the terrorism response center IN THE TWIN TOWERS... Volaris Oct 2021 #5
I formed the basis of my epistemology EYESORE 9001 Oct 2021 #3
In this case it probably was not Facebook Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #4
Rudy Giuliani was always bad IbogaProject Oct 2021 #6
Here is the SNL clip with Rudy IbogaProject Oct 2021 #7
And he's a lawyer, sworn to ensure that all evidence and such that he deals with in a Court of SWBTATTReg Oct 2021 #8

Beartracks

(12,797 posts)
2. "It must be true. I read it on the internet." Wow.
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 04:21 PM
Oct 2021

I mean, if some unverifiable source ALSO claims " This is what THEY don't want you to know"... Well, what more proof do you need?



Was he always this crazy and incompetent and we just didn't notice in the shock of 9/11?

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Volaris

(10,266 posts)
5. Meh...he DID put the terrorism response center IN THE TWIN TOWERS...
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 04:45 PM
Oct 2021

You do whatever you want with that little nugget, and get back to me lol!

EYESORE 9001

(25,908 posts)
3. I formed the basis of my epistemology
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 04:22 PM
Oct 2021

from esoteric knowledge conveyed on the back of cereal boxes. Hey, it makes as much sense as CT on social media platforms, right?

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. In this case it probably was not Facebook
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 04:23 PM
Oct 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/magazine/eric-coomer-dominion-election.html

Coomer was accustomed to working long days during the postelection certification process, but the stress that November was building quickly. Donald Trump was demanding recounts. The president’s allies in the Stop the Steal movement had spent months stoking fears of election fraud. And then on Sunday, Nov. 8, Sidney Powell, a lawyer representing the Trump campaign, appeared on Fox News and claimed, without evidence, that Dominion had an algorithm that switched votes from Trump to Biden.

The video Coomer watched in his hotel room represented a new development in Dominion’s troubles. It was that day’s episode of “The Conservative Daily Podcast,” a program previously unknown to Coomer, which had been posted to YouTube. “We’re going to expose someone inside of Dominion Voting Systems, specifically related to antifa, and related to someone that is so far left, and is controlling elections and his fingerprints are in every state,” said the show’s co-host, a man using the pseudonym Joe Otto. Otto — who would eventually reveal himself to be Joe Oltmann, a Colorado entrepreneur — claimed that he had found a smoking gun that proved fraud at Dominion: “We 100 percent know that the election was rigged.”

About 11 minutes in, Coomer heard Oltmann say his name. “The conversation will be about a man named Eric Coomer,” Oltmann said, spelling it out: “C-O-O-M-E-R.” Next Coomer was staring at a photo of himself up on the screen in what Oltmann called “his little outfit,” a bike uniform Coomer wore in 2016 for a six-day endurance mountain-biking race. Coomer was looking at his own half-smirk, half-smile, the face of a middle-aged man with a sparse goatee, staring into the glare in sunglasses. What other photos did Oltmann have? What other artifacts of his life, of his family — and how hard was this man looking for all of it?

Oltmann claimed that, earlier that year, he had infiltrated what he said was an antifa phone call and overheard someone — someone he claimed had been identified as Eric at Dominion — assure his supposed fellow antifa members that Trump would lose. “He responds — and I’m paraphrasing this, right? — ‘Don’t worry about the election, Trump is not going to win. I made effing sure of that,’” Oltmann said. He told his listeners that he thought little of who this Eric at Dominion might be until after the election, when a friend sent him a Facebook post about election troubles that mentioned Eric Coomer’s name. Suddenly, Oltmann said, his interest was reawakened. He started looking into Coomer, he said, and “the more information I got, the scarier it got.”


Spoiler alert ... it doesn't get scary at all unless you're a paranoid Cult45 member.

IbogaProject

(2,787 posts)
6. Rudy Giuliani was always bad
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 05:18 PM
Oct 2021

Rudy Giuliani was always bad, at least since he ascended to being Mayor. The NYPD got real violent and wasted huge amounts of money arresting pot smokers and stopping and frisking kids and young adults. He also instituted the custom of having the police discouraging and avoiding filing reports of crime, in order to make NYC look safer than it was by gaming the compstat system. That is still going on through today.

He also participated in a bit after his second election on Saturday Night live in December '97 with one rebroadcast June '98 with an appearance on the Joe Pesci show bit, where it ended with rudy beating down an actor playing Mayor Marion Berry. I gave up on big network TV altogether after that across the board. Corporate TV isn't ever telling the truth or helping the working class.

SWBTATTReg

(22,065 posts)
8. And he's a lawyer, sworn to ensure that all evidence and such that he deals with in a Court of
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 05:56 PM
Oct 2021

Law is the truth, after all, all attorneys are sworn to uphold the truth, not use manufactured lies, etc. No wonder he's losing his licenses, and any respect by others.

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