2020 voter fraud cases are still making their way through the courts
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In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, John Henry Weston talks about the Supreme Court challenges to the 2020 election result, the China Communist Party has imposed harsh new lockdowns on tens of millions of its citizens, and the party is claiming that the new spread of COVID is coming from American and European Catholic priests.
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Given the constant mantra of the mainstream media, you'd be forgiven if you believe that
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all the court challenges to the November election are done and gone.
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In fact, there are 30 of them still outstanding, and we're going to speak today with a law
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professor who has read most of the 81 cases that challenged the 2020 election result.
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Meanwhile, the China Communist Party has imposed harsh new lockdowns on tens of millions of
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China's citizens, and the party is claiming that the new spread of COVID is coming from
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the Son of the Cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.
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LifeCite's Martin Burger reports that former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine
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of Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, has warned that the United States government under President
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Joe Biden, and I quote, with its concentrated political, media, and economic power, is at
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the forefront of the most subtly brutal campaign in the last 100 years to de-Christianize Western
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Cardinal Müller recounted before explaining that in his opinion, and I quote,
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individual and social ethics take precedence over politics.
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The line is crossed where faith and morality are offset against political calculations.
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He continued, I cannot support a pro-abortion politician because he builds social housing,
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and because of the relative good, I would have to accept the absolute evil, end quote.
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You'll also read at LifeCite News, and you really have to check out, the story by Michael
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Haynes, which reports that China's Communist Party, the officials in it, are actually blaming
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Supposedly, these lockdowns are necessitated by an apparent resurgence of COVID-19 cases near
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A local priest described the move as being like the times of Emperor Nero.
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A reported uptick in the positive cases of COVID-19 in Hebei province near Beijing has resulted
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in the area being put under very stringent lockdown.
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As of January 6th, more than 22 million people have now been ordered to remain at home.
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The province's capital also placed its 11 million inhabitants in isolation, with travel in and
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Posts on social media platforms, Miwi and Weibo, began spreading accusations against Catholics
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causing the recent cases, as if they were causing them.
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The rumors also claimed that a number of European and American priests came to participate in
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the religious ceremonies without taking any preventative measures, bringing the virus with
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And these were then reported by Chinese officials as well.
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Meanwhile, Duncan Schroeder of Newsbusters reports that last week CNN's Chris Como and
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commentator Don Lemon spoke about the need to deprogram Americans on the right.
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You know, Chris, the right doesn't like it when you say people need to be deprogrammed.
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We're talking about the QAnon people and the conspiracy theorist people.
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You know, I feel like I'm missing something here because I know what QAnon is and I know
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I am not as worried about the duped as I am about the diabolical.
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The Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, these other true extremist groups that have membership, that
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have, you know, these mantras and mottos and these mechanisms for change that is violent.
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There is true domestic terror capability and Trump unleashed the Kraken.
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Well, but also it doesn't just go away because a lot of the people who enabled them are still
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There are still people of power who, even beyond politics, there are people in the media
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who still enable them, who still capitalize on the conspiracy theories to get them going,
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to continue to get them to watch their programs.
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I mean, look at what's happening with conservative media.
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The tectonic shift that's happening there because people need to go and get, you know, pure conspiracy
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This channel isn't giving me enough pure conspiracy theories.
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And then they're going to continue to go to the next one.
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And so I think it's just a, it's a vicious cycle.
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And before we get to our guest, check out LifeSite's David McClune's report on the new
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has produced a listing of most, if not all, of the court challenges to the election.
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This list is totally referenced with links to the court filings themselves.
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This database tracks 81 court cases pertaining to the 2020 election.
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The Trump campaign is the plaintiff in 45 cases.
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In only nine of them, did judges allow the Trump campaign to present the evidence needed
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to argue the case fully, according to this database.
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In more than a dozen cases, judges ruled against Trump either due to technicalities or while
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siding in favor of ballots that lacked legally mandated information.
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Another 35 cases were brought by Republicans, individual voters, and non-profits.
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Finally, plaintiffs were able to argue all evidence in only 14% of all tracked cases.
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I spoke yesterday with an American uniquely suited to dealing with the facts on the election
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He's a law professor at New Mexico State University.
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He's also a seasoned trial attorney where he tried over 120 cases to a jury and dozens more
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His experience ranges from municipal defense in civil litigation to prosecution of first
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degree murder and other high profile felony cases.
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When the university president sent out a message to the university condemning the violence at
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the Capitol and dismissing those concerned about election fraud, Professor David Clements
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spoke out publicly, even though as a not yet tenured professor, he puts his own job at risk.
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He told me he's read most of the cases with regard to election fraud.
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Professor David Clements, thank you for joining us in the program.
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So tell us, one of the most striking things about your initial testimony, which of course
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went viral and got you on the Tucker show and all over the place, to my mind, one of
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the most intriguing parts was where you said that you had read most of the court cases which
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I think one of the most powerful arguments on the side of those who claim that there was
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no election fraud whatsoever, basically the media narrative that there's no evidence,
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no evidence, no evidence, is exactly that, that the court cases were rejected over and
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over and over again, dozens of times, including by Trump judges.
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So please tell us what you've got to say for that.
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What I raised in the video was that the two common objections that we saw in case after
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case after case was this doctrine of legal standing.
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And what your viewers need to understand about legal standing, it's effectively a legal fiction.
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That, for instance, when we had the state of Texas suing the state of Pennsylvania and went
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to the Supreme Court, it was dismissed on grounds for standing.
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And the argument that was being proposed by the Texas AG was pretty straightforward.
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By virtue of Pennsylvania not following its own laws, you diminished the vote here in Texas
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And so if you don't run your ship a certain way, then our voters suffer.
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And so for most people out there, the layperson, they would say, yeah, that makes sense.
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Well, the problem is, is in the land of the law, when you're talking about the types of
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complaints that were lodged here, they don't consider it a particularized injury.
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And if it's a generalized injury, they're not going to hear it.
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And so many of the cases that were filed, there's this confusion because your average
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everyday voter says, what do you mean there was no harm?
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And the law creates this mechanism to where they're not going to even get to the merits
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And so that's the primary issue that we saw in lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit.
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And what you have to keep in mind is that you have cases that were filed in Georgia.
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You have cases that were filed in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Texas, Nevada.
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Many of those cases originated in a state district court.
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President Trump does not get to appoint anyone to state district courts.
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And when you look at the figures for Trump appointees in federal district courts, they account for
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And so people have run with this narrative that somehow every one of these lawsuits have
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been filed in courtrooms with Trump appointees.
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Out of the 54 or 60 cases that I looked at, you only had a handful of judges.
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So they're looking at what the Supreme Court has said about standing, and they're following
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So the narrative that's been put out there is really easy to spell if you just look at the
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One of the things you said there is really remarkable.
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You've looked at over 60 or so cases that have gone on in this election.
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I think that's probably more than almost anyone else has looked at.
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So you've seen this, and yet you're convinced that there was indeed fraud.
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Well, you know, what I do as an attorney is I create proof analysis in all my cases.
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And so as someone who is just following the hearings that happened shortly after the results,
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I started creating a grid, and I started looking at the challenges.
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Anything that's been filed in a court of law is public record.
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And so I started familiarizing myself with the affidavits.
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In my video, I talked about having access to 574 pages of sworn documents that have proliferated
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In Michigan alone, for example, there are 234 pages of sworn affidavits just out of Wayne
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And so what you have to do as someone who is concerned with finding out what is true and
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And the reason why I'm comfortable with this is as a trial attorney, I've tried thousands
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or not thousands, but I prosecuted thousands of cases, and I've tried well over 100 cases
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What you do is let them make up their own minds.
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You let them be the judges of the facts, the judges of credibility.
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And so a lot of these witnesses were foreclosed from having a date in court, but we still had
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And what's important about these witnesses is that they filled out affidavits where they
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risk 10 to 15 years for committing perjury if they're caught lying.
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And what I found, just like in Wayne County, whether it was Fulton County, Antrim County,
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DeKalb County, Floyd County, Fayette County, all of these counties, I was able to look at
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these affidavits and also watch them during these public hearings.
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And that's born out of my experience as a trial attorney.
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I know good witnesses when they take the stand.
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I know witnesses that don't know what they're talking about.
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What I want to push back against is everyone says, well, how could there be a conspiracy of
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a bunch of judges making sure that Trump isn't elected to office?
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And I think you can raise that, but you also have to equally raise the prospect of why would
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tens of thousands of people that aren't in positions of power lie about what they saw
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And so basically what I tell people is you don't have to take my word for it.
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And either it's going to meet a certain burden of proof for you, the juror, or it's not.
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I think when you look at the preponderance of evidence standard, which is the standard used
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in civil courts, all you have to prove is that what is being asserted is more likely than not.
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It's been met sufficiently to at least have a trial on the merits.
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But based on my observation, you basically had a lot of political or judicial cowardice.
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Everyone was punting the ball in a different direction because they didn't want to suffer
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the political blowback by rendering a decision that could potentially disenfranchise millions
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And so everyone was playing this game to ensure that they weren't the one that was going to
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A couple of things you said there that are very eyebrow raising.
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One of them, you said that they could stand to suffer 10 to 15 years in prison for lying
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And you also have to keep in mind that we live in a federalist system.
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So based on a kind of a common law perspective of how perjury works, if you lie under oath
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and an affidavit is a sworn statement that basically says that I'm competent, I'm of sound
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mind, I'm over a certain age, everything that I'm saying here is the truth.
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And if you find out that I'm lying, I'm going to be subject to all the penalties of perjury.
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And those penalties carry sufficient or not sufficient, but potentially large sentences.
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So you can go to prison for lying on these affidavits.
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And you also mentioned that there was tens of thousands.
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Are there tens of thousands of these sworn affidavits or what we're referring to there
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If you look at Wayne County, the Ellis Trump team was able to procure 234 sworn affidavits
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And so what you have here are hundreds and hundreds of affidavits coming from each of
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And so on average, within the five to seven states with dueling electors, in each of those
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counties, like Maricopa County, hundreds of affidavits.
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In Georgia, I think there might be more than any place because that's the place with the
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video where election officials sent people home under this false narrative that there
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was a major water leak in, I think, the state farm building.
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So there were a bunch of people there that filled out affidavits.
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And when you tally them up, yes, they are in the thousands.
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Now, there were tons of really good lawyers working for the Trump team.
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When they're preparing for their cases, wouldn't they have known these procedural hurdles that
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Wouldn't they have known the kind of standing that they would need to get?
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I think this is the reason why you have to assert your claims is because they had no
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Everyone acts like on November 5th, they should have just had perfectly completed lawsuits
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Well, no one knew what occurred was going to occur.
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And while they were trying to assemble the lawsuits and acquire the evidence that demonstrates
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it, of course, I mean, you have to keep in mind the fraud was perpetrated on or about
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And then you have to have your lawsuits heard, filed.
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And you also have to understand that there were certain dates that they had to kind of beat
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For instance, in certain states by November 20th, just 15 days after the election, the
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Secretary of State, in many cases, has to certify the results.
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A couple of weeks after that, the state legislatures have to certify the results.
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And so there was this clock that was ticking at all times to get this information out there.
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And most of the politicians and judges were able to work against the clock and effectively
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Well, there's not much we can do now because the Secretary of State certified the results.
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And it was only the persistent anger of the voters that allowed folks to keep these lawsuits
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So a lot of the doors that were shut were kind of baked into these timelines that you
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So I don't think it was, I don't think there was a poor lawsuit that was filed.
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The Ellis-Trump team were filing lawsuits basically saying that, look, your states deviated from your
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You've got the Secretary of State modifying how we're doing the rules with respect to mail-in
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That's unconstitutional because the only people that can change the rules is your legislature.
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So they filed lawsuits saying this is unconstitutional.
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You had other lawsuits followed by Sidney Powell, who talked about the Dominion machines and voting
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And so in some ways, I just think that the media narrative, you know, mind you, from day
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one, as soon as the media certified the results of the election, they said there was no fraud.
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They said that these were the most secure elections in history.
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Someone that comes out and says that right out the gate?
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Or are you going to let people have the opportunity to process these lawsuits?
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The Sidney Powell phenomenon, I guess you'd call it, was very disconcerting for a lot of
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people because she talked about releasing the Kraken.
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And there seemed to be initially a lot of hope that something was going to happen.
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And then it seemed to putter out and go nowhere.
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I think that either Sidney Powell is the attorney that we all believed her to be for 30 plus
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She was considered one of the best of the best.
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She cultivated her reputation where she did not make claims unless she could back them up.
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And either she is that person or you have to come to the conclusion that she's
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If you do a Google search of her name, she's been disparaged in unbelievable ways.
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So the question that you're really asking someone like myself is, has she earned the
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And I would say, yes, she's a competent attorney.
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I believe that she has established more than enough evidence.
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And the evidence that I've reviewed in her case is reliable.
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It would meet any standard in a court of law if we didn't have cowards acting as the
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So Sidney Powell, you know, when you look at some of the cases in her history as a prosecutor,
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And she, the reason why she's having problems is that she's taking on the deep state.
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And so opposition to her trying to get to the truth has been galvanized and they're trying
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They're not letting us see her evidence because they're scared of what it will reveal.
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If we saw the evidence that I've seen that she's put out there, you would lose faith in
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Or do you see this election fraud perpetuating itself?
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Well, if we don't stand up and get angry, but that anger has got to be purposed towards
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So I'm not saying don't vote because by voting, you can keep your eyes on what's going on at
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So we need people to vote to keep an eye and fight for every little bit of integrity that's
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But what I tell folks is don't rely on a judge to save your republic.
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And if you have a great amount of distrust for those politicians, you should look into recall
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Get rid of these people that did not fulfill their oaths of office to protect and defend
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Then we have a chance because we're not putting our hope in one person saving us.
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We're putting our hope in the person to the left of us, the person to the right of us,
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the people that we could talk to at the dinner table, our co-workers.
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And we need to get to a critical mass point of 30 to 35 percent of the population that
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Been good stewards of the authority that we've delegated to you as the citizen, and we're
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And that's where I'm encouraged because more people are waking up.
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Well, you have done this speaking out at great peril to yourself.
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This all started because you were responding to your own university president who put out
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a statement very much in favor of President Biden and against Trump supporters.
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What ramifications, if any, have you faced or are you facing?
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I can tell you that it didn't really start with my letter or my video response on the 10th of January.
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I've been a silent observer as someone who's a faculty senator, as someone who has taught classes,
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And I reached my breaking point because honestly, I was heart sick on what I was hearing from
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students, faculty members, and just there's a bully culture from a minority of faculty members
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that they are the most vocal, and they go out of their way to politicize everything.
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And so I had the gall to step up and ask for civility back in November.
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And when I did that, there were a few faculty members that went out of their way to just
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try to destroy my name, and they still continue to do that.
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So right now, in my email, there are emails to faculty with titles like this,
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David Clements lies on national TV, David Clements terrorism and social media lies.
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And every day, I'm getting basically an eyeful of these bullies at work.
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And just to underscore the point, John, one of the particular professors that has been most vocal
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going after me, he's the co-chair of our faculty grievance board.
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So the person that we go to when we have grievances as a faculty is one of the people that's leading
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In fact, I've had some faculty members that rushed to my defense and committed the grievous
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And this co-chair went out of his way to make fun of them for having typos.
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This is the person we go to when we are agreed.
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And then I have another faculty member that I had to quote this because it's so disgusting
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that not only equated Trump voters to white nationalists, white supremacists, and racists,
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he said this in one of his emails, we must see them as the enemies of decency that they are
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So when I talk about what I said in the video, I've only scratched the surface of just how
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nasty it is in academia, but that's where we're at.
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So the pushback has been nasty, but overwhelmingly positive for every nasty email or message that
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I get from what I call the Marxist group of faculty members.
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I've had thousands of emails and messages from people supporting me.
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Just from all of us here at LifeSite News, Professor Clements, I just wanted to say thank you.
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Thank you for your heroism, your gumption to stand up for the great nation of the United States,
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And I wanted to close off today noting that many of you are deprived of the greatest treasure on earth,
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Let's offer up some of that pain and suffering today for the repose of the soul of RS,
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that pro-life Polish Catholic man who was starved to death in the UK hospital,
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despite the efforts of the Polish government and his family to save his life.
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And for this concluding, let me start that over again.
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And for this concluding remark, thanks to B.A. McCaskey, who sent in a beautiful poem she was inspired to write
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after witnessing a Catholic kneeling outside the doors of a Catholic church, locked because of COVID, this Christmas.
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This Catholic was kneeling in the freezing cold on the steps of the church outside the closed doors.
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Are you still there, dear Jesus, our infant God and King?
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O Eucharistic Lord, give wisdom to your shepherds and open wide the door.
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Hi, this is John Henry Weston, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of LifeSite News.
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I'm coming to you today because we want to be sure that we are communicating clearly with you, our loyal followers.
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Things are really heating up, as I'm sure you can see Christians, conservative truth-tellers are being targeted, are being banned from social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram at an alarmingly fast rate.
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They are attempting to suppress any narrative that does not fit that of the mainstream media.
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We have been warning everyone who would listen and attempting to build up alternative platforms to continue to reach you.
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We have established ourselves on all sorts of platforms I'm going to explain in a minute, but the most important thing to do is come direct to LifeSiteNews.com because there we will always be.
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But we've also established ourselves on platforms like Parler and MeWe, and our videos can be found on Rumble as well.
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We would love to see each of you on those platforms too, as they are not censoring or suppressing the truth that we are sharing every single day.
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More than these alternative social media platforms, we highly encourage you to subscribe to our email newsletter.
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We have really built up a large list of loyal readers on our email marketing platform.
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And we have prepared several backup plans for, well, I want to say if, but it's really when, we are removed from our current platform as well.
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Additionally, I really encourage you, as I said before, to make it a regular habit to go directly to LifeSiteNews.com.
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While all of these different platforms are an excellent way to curate your news, going directly to our website means that you will never encounter any censorship
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We founded this organization with the mission to be the life, family, and culture source for men and women who seek to know the truth.
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We have established a track record of honest reports, and this will never stop.
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Even with censorship happening around the globe.
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Again, I'm encouraging you to join us on Parler, MeWe, Rumble, and on our email list.
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