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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Mike Lindell and disgraced CEO Patrick Byrne pushed Trump to use intelligence data to back fake election claims - Yahoo! Voices

A group of pro-Trump conspiracy theorists sent Republican senators a memorandum advocating the use of top-secret communications intercepts to bolster former president Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud in the days leading up to the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol.

The memorandum, which was first revealed by the Washington Post, opens with the baseless claim that “substantial evidence” which had been obtained by former Pentagon and US Intelligence Community analysts suggested “foreign involvement” in the racial justice protests which spread across the US in 2020, describing them as a “violent colour revolution”.

It further alleged that the “foreign involvement” also extended to “altering the vote counts” in what it called “the 2020 election fraud” and suggested Mr Trump order “search inquiries” against signals intelligence data collected by the National Security Agency — the US equivalent of CGHQ — to “identify hard evidence of foreign involvement”.

Such evidence, it said, would use a classified Defence Department legal finding to “support next steps to defend the Constitution in a manner superior” to the more than 60 failed lawsuits filed to stop or reverse election certifications by pro-Trump lawyers such as Sidney Powell and Rudolph Giuliani, referring to those doomed efforts as “current civilian-only judicial remedies”.

No credible evidence exists that Mr Trump’s 2020 loss to President Joe Biden was the result of fraud, and Mr Trump’s own top cybersecurity...



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