Trump Asked For Probe Into Whether China-Made Thermostats Hacked Election

[Nevilledog]

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Then-President Donald Trump asked Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to investigate a truly wild conspiracy theory in his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, according to ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl’s upcoming book, “Betrayal.”

On ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Karl shared an excerpt of his book reporting that Jeffrey Clark, the acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Division who schemed to help Trump use the DOJ to steal the election, presented to the then-president a new conspiracy theory alleging Chinese hacking of U.S. voting systems.

Clark believed that “wireless thermostats made in China” for Google by a manufacturer called Nest Labs “might have been used to manipulate voting machines in Georgia,” Karl wrote in his book.

Trump was “intrigued” by the bonkers allegation, according to Karl, and he directed Ratcliffe to look into it.

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[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Now that is just plain bonkers

I have never seen one do that.

[LeftInTX]

18. The rightwing is very anti-smart thermostats that are connected to power companies

I was at a city council meeting in 2017. Some tea party guy started spouting off about smart meters and liberty...

These same people are also very anti-fluoride.

I'm like...what do these people do with their free time to come up with all these conspiracy theories. They're still anti-fluoride and San Antonio didn't have fluoride until 2002 because of these goons. The dental school made a big push for fluoride and there was a big campaign and we finally came out of the dark ages and voted for fluoride in 2002, but the John Birch Society lives on.

[GoCubsGo]

2. That's bad enough, but how many of his cult followers are going to start spreading this shit?

Crazy and stupid.

[gratuitous]

3. HAH! The microwave ovens have totally thrown Poor Donny off the track

It was a close one there when Kellyanne voiced her suspicions about microwave ovens, but the microwaves have successfully thrown these latter-day Sherlock Holmes off the scent, and now they're chasing the thermostats. Mission accomplished, microwave ovens.

[Loge23]

4. Whew, close one!

He almost got us!
(It was the LED bulbs :jester

[Trueblue1968]

5. i can't believe HOW STUPID Trump is. My Cat ANNIE is smarter/

[ornotna]

6. It's those damn smoke detectors that you have to watch out for. n/t

[sarcasmo]

7. Can we nuke the hurricane? Chinese thermostats hacked the election.

Trump's brain is beyond crazy.

[Brainfodder]

8. Little baby orange man needs reupped on his meds ASAP?

Once the T word is used, I am not really reading anything further unless I see words like arrested, flight risk, or obituary?

Taking advantage of my ADHD is correct.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Sometimes I think Donald Trump is really Maxwell Smart

[MyOwnPeace]

14. OK - "would you believe............"

and "Tweets" going out on the shoe-phone!

[Ocelot II]

10. That's ridiculous. It wasn't the thermostats.

It was pacemakers and hearing aids. Have you ever noticed that many election judges are elderly? There's a reason for that; their Chinese-made pacemakers and hearing aids were programmed to link into the voting machines via Bluetooth. That's why the Deep State made sure there were plenty of elderly election judges at each voting place.

[onethatcares]

11. "Bluetooth"

notice it was totally antitheses to "Redtooth".

I rest my case.

[Javaman]

12. my poor dead uncle had massive PTSD from WWII

and thought Nazi's were coming out of the light sockets to kill him during night terrors.

what is the fucking orange assholes excuse?

[mzmolly]

13. Why hasn't he been committed?

[bucolic_frolic]

15. That's a very legitimate question to be posted everywhere

[mzmolly]

17. Instead he's creating

a mentally ill cult. It's surreal.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. No it was Wi-Fi enabled refrigerators

The one at the Whitehouse was sick and tired of TFG leaving the door open while raiding it. It went and contacted its brethren which in turn hacked the election in revenge.

Makes about as much sense as the the thermostats.

[Equomba]

19. I think I have the answer.

I just asked Alexa, "Alexa, did YOU hack the election?".

She responded, quite coyly, "I'm sorry, I don't have an answer".

MORE than suspicious, I'd say.