Stop the Steal!

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The dems created BLM and Antifa, and used social media to stage protests across the country leading up to the election. At least 574 of those protests involved acts of violence. Actual numbers are at least 10,600 protests, since the usual suspects, such as Baltimore, District of Columbia, and New orleans, either did not report, or under reported their numbers.

More than 10,000 arrests and 25 deaths were recorded. Property damage exceeded $1 billion.

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Lawyers from Parker Daniels Kibort in Minnesota and Lewin and Lewin in Washington filed a motion Thursday notifying federal judges that Lindell and his company owe millions of dollars in legal fees.

Andrew Parker, one of Lindell’s attorneys, said his client stopped paying invoices on time this year and in recent months has only part of those invoices, according to court filings.

Parker Daniels Kibort went as far as to say that if they continued to represent Lindell and his company it could threaten “the ongoing business of the firm,” citing millions of dollars’ worth of additional discovery work.

Contra
Lindell told Forbes he had not paid his lawyers in a few months and didn’t blame them for retreating as “they have families and responsibilities.” Lindell called them “courageous lawyers” who knew they’d be attacked for taking his case. He said the lawyers approached him and said they couldn't go on without getting paid. Lindell also reiterated that despite losing his lawyers he will “never” settle and will “fight until the end to secure these elections.”

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THE DECISION:

Defamation
Moss awarded: $16,998,000
Freeman awarded: $16,171,000

Emotional distress
Moss awarded: $20 million
Freeman awarded: $20 million

Punitive damages
Total: $75 million

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Publisher of ‘2,000 Mules’ election conspiracy theory film issues apology

Salem Media distributed “2,000 Mules,” which claimed Democrats conspired to steal the 2020 election. Now the company has apologized and will halt any future distribution of the film.
The conservative media company behind the book and film “2,000 Mules,” which alleged a widespread conspiracy by Democrats to steal the 2020 election and was embraced by former president Donald Trump, has issued an apology and said it would halt distribution of the film and remove both the film and book from its platforms.

In a statement posted to their website, Salem Media Group, Inc. apologized specifically to Mark Andrews, a voter from Georgia falsely depicted illegally voting in “2,000 Mules.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation cleared Andrews of wrongdoing, and found he was legally dropping off ballots for members of his family. Andrews filed a defamation lawsuit against Salem, as well as the team behind the movie: right wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza, and the group True the Vote.

Though “2,000 Mules” has been widely debunked by law enforcement officials and the media, including NPR, the film and book developed a widespread following among supporters of the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

According to Andrews’ lawsuit, the allegations in “2,000 Mules” led to violent threats against him and his family. “They worry that again they will be baselessly accused of election crimes, and that believers in the ‘mules’ theory may recognize and seek reprisal against them, and that they may face physical harm,” the lawsuit alleged.

According to a court filing in a related case, Salem settled the lawsuit brought by Andrews for an undisclosed "significant" amount. In the statement on its website, Salem wrote, “It was never our intent that the publication of the ‘2000 Mules’ film and book would harm Mr. Andrews. We apologize for the hurt the inclusion of Mr. Andrews' image in the movie, book, and promotional materials have caused Mr. Andrews and his family.”

Salem said that it “relied on representations made to us by Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote.”
D’Souza and True the Vote did not immediately respond to NPR’s request for comment.

Andrews’ lawsuit was brought with the help of the nonprofit group Protect Democracy, which also worked on defamation litigation brought by Georgia election workers against the former New York Mayor and Trump ally Rudy Giuliani.

A lawyer for Protect Democracy declined to comment on Salem’s statement due to the ongoing case. It is unclear what impact Salem’s apology will have on the lawsuit, which is currently in the discovery phase. Separately, Salem is also suing its insurer for allegedly failing to cover the costs stemming from Andrews’ lawsuit.
This was not the first rift among the makers and distributor of “2,000 Mules.”

When D’Souza published the book version of the film and made allegations of illegal “ballot trafficking” against specific nonprofit groups, True the Vote issued a statement saying that the group ”had no participation in this book, and has no knowledge of its contents." True the Vote added, "This includes any allegations of activities of any specific organizations made in the book. We made no such allegations."

That version of the book was abruptly recalled after already reaching store shelves and replaced with a version that omitted multiple significant allegations.

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Three Trump operatives charged in Wisconsin for 2020 election gambit
Kenneth Chesebro, Jim Troupis and Mike Roman were all charged with forgery for their efforts to assemble fake elector certificates.
Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of Donald Trump’s scheme to subvert the 2020 election, has been charged with felony forgery in Wisconsin, court records show.
Chesebro, who developed a strategy to send false slates of presidential electors — and to use them to stoke a conflict on Jan. 6, 2021 aimed at blocking Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory — was charged alongside Jim Troupis, a 2020 Trump campaign lawyer, and Mike Roman, a former Trump campaign operative.
Chesebro and Roman were previously identified as alleged Trump co-conspirators in Georgia and Arizona. For Troupis, it’s the first time facing criminal charges connected to the alleged scheme. All three face the same single count of forgery, which stems from their role soliciting and delivering false sets of elector certificates to Congress in December 2020.