On New Year’s Eve, a previous adviser of former President Donald Trump provided a batch of documents to the Jan. 6 Committee. Among the documents Bernard “Bernie” Kerik provided is a detailed “strategic communications plan” reportedly created by Rudy Giuliani’s legal defense team.
The plan, first reported on by Politico, includes a list of conservative social media influencers to tap to push Trump’s false claims of widespread election fraud and ultimately overturn the results. The list is broken down into “big names” like Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, and the Daily Wire; “medium” (Ron Watkins and Brandon Straka are in this category); “small”; and “micro.”
It includes a list of 10 right-wing TikTokers and admonishes, “WE have to use TIKTOK!! Content goes VIRAL here like no other platform!!!!! And there are MILLIONS of Trump supporters! It would be amazing if POTUS would use the platform actually—he’d have the biggest account EVER.”
The plan is described as, “Nationwide communications outreach campaign to educate the public on the fraud numbers, and inspire citizens to call upon legislators and Members of Congress to disregard the fraudulent vote count and certify the duly-elected President Trump.”
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