Loomer Unleashed - May 19, 2023


Maricopa County Director of Elections Refuses To Condemn Discrimination Against Trump Voters

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CDIR conference ethics violation
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Laura Loomer
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Adrian Fontes Mark Zuckerberg Donald Trump Carrie Lake David Pecker George Soros Ray Ballinger Way Adrienne Fonsett Carrie Layton Steve Rogers David Badger Hunter Biden Jamie Raskin J.B. Raskin Bill Gates Melissa Furious Getter Obama
Arizona’s Secretary of State Confronted For Calling Trump Supporters FASCISTS CBS’s Chief Political Correspondent Confronted About His Anti-Trump Bias

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In this episode, we talk to Maricopa County Director of Elections and Director of Rebuilding, Laura Lumer, about attending David Badger's conference and why she thinks it's appropriate for her to attend. We also talk to Arizona Secretary of State, Adrienne Fonsett, about whether it's OK to call Trump supporters "fascists."

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00:00:07.000 Hi, my name is Laura Lumer, and I understand that you are a member of the County Director of Elections and also the Director for Rebuilding.
00:00:20.000 I want to understand why you think it's appropriate to be attending David Badger's conference hosted by CDIR. Are you aware of the fact that CDIR received $69.5 million in funding from Mark Zuckerberg?
00:00:35.000 You're not?
00:00:37.000 You're not familiar?
00:00:38.000 No.
00:00:39.000 Okay, well, do you know that David Becker is a radical leftist activist and that he used to work for Pew Charitable Trust, which is tied to George Soros?
00:00:48.000 You do know that?
00:00:49.000 No, I do not.
00:00:50.000 You do not.
00:00:50.000 So, given the fact that you are involved in active litigation with Cary Lake right now, do you think that it's appropriate for you to be a kind of a partisan conference?
00:01:00.000 Do you think that it's a partisan panel?
00:01:06.000 This is not a bipartisan conference.
00:01:14.000 It's not my opinion.
00:01:16.000 It's actually about mandatory.
00:01:17.000 I'm not one person.
00:01:21.000 The Republicans who were there are people like Bill Gates, your colleague, in Maricopa County, who is also anti-Republican.
00:01:28.000 Okay, so these are what we call RINOs.
00:01:30.000 He's also involved in a lawsuit right now that's been filed by Carrie Layton.
00:01:34.000 So, you're supposed to be nonpartisan.
00:01:36.000 And Carrie Lake, there's been rumors that she might even run for Senate.
00:01:39.000 So when she's a candidate on the ballot this next election season in 2024, how are you going to be trusted as a nonpartisan election official when you're attending such a partisan event?
00:01:50.000 But it's not bipartisan.
00:01:57.000 I know, but you are actually committing an ethics violation right now because you're involved in active litigation.
00:02:02.000 I can show it to you.
00:02:03.000 I appreciate it on that.
00:02:04.000 I know, but you should be interested, because you're an election official.
00:02:08.000 And I'm originally from Arizona.
00:02:09.000 Look, it says, listed as defendants in Lake's lawsuit, Maricopa County Director, Stephen, County Recorder Stephen Riker, Maricopa County Director of Elections and Elections Services, and we're going to go to Ray Ballinger Way, Melissa.
00:02:31.000 And you're showing incredible disrespect right now to the voters of Arizona by texting while I'm talking to you.
00:02:36.000 And I'm originally, I was born and raised in Arizona, okay?
00:02:41.000 I was born in Tucson, Arizona.
00:02:43.000 And I live in...
00:02:44.000 Yeah, it's a beautiful place.
00:02:45.000 It's beautiful.
00:02:46.000 I live in Florida now.
00:02:47.000 You know, I just, I think that this is important, and it's relevant.
00:02:50.000 It's relevant to the millions of people who live in Arizona who feel that they're already working on our mind.
00:02:58.000 And I understand you also have a close relationship with Adrian Fontes, who once appointed you to a position.
00:03:05.000 Adrian Fontes is the Secretary of State of Arizona.
00:03:07.000 He called Trump supporters not a fascist.
00:03:10.000 Do you think it's appropriate to refer to Republican voters as a fascist?
00:03:30.000 I don't have a place to condemn or disavow anybody.
00:03:38.000 They're at their place to do it.
00:03:41.000 But do you think it's appropriate as an election to vocalize it?
00:03:44.000 As Adrienne Fonsett, who's supposed to be the Secretary of State of our elections in Arizona, do you think that it's an appropriate statement for somebody who's supposed to be non-partisan to call Trump supporters basis?
00:03:56.000 Oh, we did ask him.
00:03:57.000 We asked him.
00:03:59.000 We asked him.
00:04:01.000 But I do want your opinion.
00:04:04.000 I want your opinion as to whether that is your own opinion.
00:04:07.000 Do you think that it is appropriate to call Trump supporters fascists?
00:04:12.000 They haven't made that statement.
00:04:15.000 I know that you're a registered Democrat, but if there was a Republican who was a Secretary of State who called the Democrats a bachelor, the Democrats a bachelor,
00:04:31.000 would you think that that's acceptable?
00:04:35.000 So you're not going to disavow Adrian Fontes's thing.
00:04:41.000 He's your boss.
00:04:41.000 He's the Secretary of State of Arizona.
00:04:43.000 He's your boss.
00:04:44.000 He's the Secretary of State of Arizona.
00:04:46.000 I didn't realize that.
00:04:47.000 He oversees the elections in Arizona.
00:04:49.000 You didn't realize that he was your boss as the Secretary of State?
00:04:52.000 You're an election official in America's county.
00:04:54.000 Do you believe the Secretary of State is the boss?
00:04:55.000 The Secretary of State oversees all elections.
00:04:59.000 So, you don't have contact with the Secretary of State's office?
00:05:01.000 Right.
00:05:06.000 And how do you think Republicans in the state of Arizona or anywhere are supposed to feel when their Democrat Secretary of State, who, by the way, was a lawyer for the cartels, you know that he used to represent the cartels under the Obama administration in Operation Fast and Furious,
00:05:22.000 did you know that?
00:05:24.000 Yeah.
00:05:24.000 Adrian Fontes is the lawyer for the cartels.
00:05:26.000 So does he call the cartels fascists or does he only call Republican Trump supporters fascists?
00:05:32.000 Is that a question for me?
00:05:33.000 Because I wouldn't know.
00:05:33.000 Okay.
00:05:34.000 You're asking me and I'm so kind on some other statement that I have.
00:05:39.000 But just to be clear, you said that you weren't aware that this conference was funded by Mark Zuckerberg, that CEIR received $69.5 million from Mark Zuckerberg.
00:05:47.000 Are you aware of the fact that Mark Zuckerberg had daily meetings leading up to the 2020 election with the FBI on how to suppress information regarding the Hunter Biden?
00:05:56.000 You are now.
00:05:57.000 Okay, because you're stating it.
00:05:58.000 Because I'm stating it, but you've never heard of this before.
00:06:00.000 I don't accept your opinion.
00:06:01.000 Oh, it's not an opinion.
00:06:02.000 It's a fact, though.
00:06:03.000 I'm journalist.
00:06:04.000 It's a fact.
00:06:05.000 Okay.
00:06:06.000 So knowing that this conference is funded by one of the Democrat Party's largest founders, Mark Zuckerberg, and also George Soros, who...
00:06:25.000 Are you going to attend any more of David Becker's conferences as an elected official?
00:06:38.000 How is it bipartisan or how is it not hyper-partisan when J.B. Raskin, who was the impeachment manager for Donald Trump, was the keynote speaker at lunch yesterday?
00:06:49.000 You know that he just called for charges of seditious conspiracy against Donald Trump.
00:06:52.000 Does that sound very non-partisan to you?
00:06:54.000 I got it.
00:06:55.000 You don't know.
00:06:56.000 He doesn't know anything.
00:06:58.000 But this is a fact.
00:07:00.000 So if somebody, let's deal in heck with that, let's deal in heck with that.
00:07:06.000 But if you attended a conference with Jamie Raskin, you just called for charges of seditious conspiracy to be brought against President Donald Trump.
00:07:17.000 So given the fact that Trump's going to be on the ballot in 2024, how are voters supposed to?
00:07:22.000 Trust that you, as the Maricopa County Director of Elections and Early Voting, are going to count their ballots fairly.
00:07:31.000 Thank you very much.
00:07:32.000 Can you answer the question?
00:07:33.000 Are you going to be fair to Trump supporters?
00:07:36.000 Are you going to be fair to Trump supporters?
00:07:39.000 I don't have an answer to your opinion.
00:07:41.000 Are you going to fairly and accurately count the ballots of Trump supporters?
00:07:48.000 I'm going to be fair to Trump supporters all the way.
00:07:52.000 Okay, and are you going to condemn attacks on Trump supporters in the state of Arizona by Secretary of State, Adrian Fontas, who called them fascists?
00:08:01.000 No, I don't have any opinion to state that...
00:08:04.000 It's not an opinion.
00:08:05.000 He literally called them MAGA-fascists.
00:08:08.000 It's in David Specker book.
00:08:09.000 You can.
00:08:09.000 I don't have time for it, so I appreciate it.
00:08:11.000 But you should.
00:08:12.000 You're an election official.
00:08:13.000 Once again, as you indicated, contact Secretary Fontas and allow him to be able to...
00:08:19.000 Secretary Fontas... 0.87
00:08:22.000 Thinks that Trump supporters are fascists. 0.95
00:08:24.000 Okay.
00:08:24.000 Thank you.
00:08:26.000 Here.
00:08:27.000 I just want to show you so that you realize that this is not just a community.
00:08:49.000 I understand, but you have to give him the price.
00:09:04.000 It's not an opinion, it's a fact.
00:09:05.000 He said it.
00:09:06.000 He called them MAGA-fascists.
00:09:08.000 Have a safe flight back to Arizona.
00:09:10.000 I hope your litigation with Carrie Lake exposes the fact that you did in fact rig the election.
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