New reporting from
the New York Times indicates
that there's evidence for
something we already knew.
The Trump campaign already knew
that the claims of election fraud
were complete and utter nonsense
even as the campaign's lawyers.
People like Sidney Powell and
Giuliani were doing press
conferences repeating the lies
of widespread voter fraud.
Now this is in regard to the
ongoing defamation lawsuit that was
filed by Dominion voting systems.
Court papers, which were initially
filed last week, as a motion in
the defamation lawsuit brought
against the campaign.
And others by former Dominion
employee, Eric Coomer,
contain evidence that officials in
the Trump campaign were aware early
on that many of the claims against
the companies were baseless.
So there was an internal memo that
was ordered by director of
communication for
the Trump campaign.
And this memo looked into the
claims of widespread voter fraud.
What was contained in the memo.
Well, the Dominion did not use
voting technology
from the software companies,
Smartmatic in the 2020 election.
That Dominion had no direct ties to
Venezuela or Soros.
And that there was no evidence
that the Dominion's leadership had
connections to left-wing Antifa
activists, as Sidney Powell and
Others had claimed.
Now despite the existence of this
memo early on after the general
election, there was that unhinged
press conference featuring Powell
and Rudy Giuliani.
I want to give you a reminder of
that right now.
>> The Dominion voting systems,
the Smartmatic technology software.
And the software that goes in other
computerized voting systems here
as well, not just Dominion
were created in Venezuela at
the direction of Hugo Chavez to
make sure he never lost an election
after one constitutional referendum
came out the way he did not
want it to come out.
We have one very strong witness who
has explained how it all works.
He was with Hugo Chavez while
the he was being briefed on how it
worked, he was with Hugo Chavez
when he saw it operate to make sure
the election came out his way.
That was the express purpose for
creating the software.
>> I mean, just completely
unhinged.
Now at that point the memo
already existed.
According to the lawsuit, the
documents also suggests that the
campaign sat on its findings about
Dominion even as Sidney Powell and
other lawyers attack the company in
the conservative media.
And ultimately filed four federal
lawsuits accusing it of
a vast conspiracy to rig
the election against Donald Trump.
So I've got more details including
the likelihood of the memo actually
getting to people like Giuliani and
Sidney Powell.
But before we get to that, Cenk?
>> So the memo was already written
when she said those things.
>> Yep.
>> So they had a top Trump campaign
person, tell them these are all
nonsense, total utterly not true.
And but and by the way, guys,
like the reason Ana said in
the beginning things we already
knew, but this just confirms it.
Because anyone with two brain cells
knows that Hugo Chavez who died
seven years ago, didn't rig
that election, the 2020 elections.
If he died seven years ago,
how would he even know that
Trump was going to be President?
I mean, this is just so
beyond absurd.
But the minute the right wing says
something we want of
having a debate about it.
And then by the way,
40% of the country believes that.
I mean, let's say that okay,
there's a 25% of Republicans that
haven't are not currently
in an asylum,
call it 30% of the country, okay?
30% of the country sees that goes
obviously Venezuela Hugo Chavez,
Dominion systems, etc.
Now there's a memo that says even
they knew, they knew for sure, and
they chose to lie to you.
My guess is right wingers will
either never see that video because
they don't watch regular news.
They watch Conservative News,
where they get fed nonstop lies.
Or they'll see it and since they're
in a cult, they'll have cognitive
dissonance and they'll go no.
It must not be true.
It's fake news.
Anything that doesn't make me feel
good is fake news.
So even though we basically have
a smoking gun here, it won't work.
30% of the country has lost
their minds, they won't believe it.
>> Well, there's a concerted effort
and there's a reason why there's
a concerted effort by conservatives
to make education unattainable.
There's a reason why during
the 2016 Trump campaign,
there was a concerted effort to
make it as though being an educated
American was somehow a bad thing.
It made you it'll lead us to
make you a bad person.
They prey on the ignorance of
people in this country.
And when I say ignorant,
I don't mean it as an insult.
You think most Americans get
a comprehensive lesson on Venezuela
in school?
>> No, nobody.
>> No, do you think that
the majority of people who fell for
these election fraud lies even know
who Hugo Chavez is?
So we might know that Hugo Chavez
has been dead for a while, but
the people who are more inclined to
believe the lies coming from people
like Sidney Powell and
Rudy Giuliani don't know.
And I'm not saying that it's their
fault that they don't know.
My point is that they are being
preyed on by these very individuals
who very likely knew the truth
about what was going on.
Now, why do I say very likely?
Well, as the New York Times
reports, it is unclear whether
Trump knew or saw the memo.
Giuliani said in a deposition that
he had not seen the memo
before he gave his presentation in
Washington, and
he questioned the motives of those
who had prepared it.
By the way, those who prepared it
were Trump campaign officials
>> [LAUGH] And senior ones.
>> Senior campaign officials okay,
including the Director of
Communications for the Trump
campaign >> But by the way, now
he's seen it because now they're
all denying it all fake news.
The guy who wrote it is deep state
even though he worked for Trump and
helped him deny the Biden victories
and helped him communicate his lies
and all that stuff.
But it doesn't matter everybody's
deep state just to
make it convenient.
But now you know that your guys
wrote the memo.
Are you going to change
your tune now?
Nope, I'm not going to change his
tune is going to go back out
tomorrow and say that the election
was rigged and it was stolen and
it was fraudulent and lose.
He's such a little crybaby.
I mean on top of everything else,
it turns out Republicans are
the weakest people in the country.
>> Certainly the most sensitive.
>> They look at this pathetic,
insecure, thin skinned Donald
Trump, obviously lying through
his teeth, and they go that's my
leader because I'm so weak.
He looks strong to me.
That's pathetic.
>> And remember, there was a point
after the 2020 election when
the lawyers representing the Trump
campaign decided to jump ship.
They're like, this is not good.
We're not doing this anymore,
we're gone.
At that point,
Trump had already distanced himself
from Sidney Powell,
because her statements were so
incredibly unhinged.
But once he had been abandoned by
other campaign lawyers, he started
considering bringing Sidney Powell
back up, like the likelihood of
Trump not knowing that the election
fraud accusations were just lies is
in my opinion unbelievable.
But what is abundantly clear is
that campaign officials, top level
campaign officials did in fact know
that it was complete and utter Bs.
And they sat on that memo and
didn't stop Sidney Powell or
Rudy Giuliani or
any of these other Trump goons from
going out there and
questioning our democratic process.
So the Trump campaign continue to
allow its agents the motion says to
advance debunk conspiracy
theories and defame Mr.
Coomer, apparently without
providing them with their own
research debunking those theories.
And by the way,
just to give you additional context
into this lawsuit, the release of
the documents was only the latest
legal trouble for Giuliani and
Powell, both of whom have been sued
directly by Dominion for
defamation.
Dominion has also brought
a defamation suit against
Mike Lindell,
the chief executive of MyPillow for
amplifying false election claims.
Last month a federal judge in
Washington ruled
that the case could continue moving
forward toward trial.
>> Okay, so I want you to
understand the chain of events
by the way.
So Trump is relying on
Sidney Powell and she said, well,
I'm going to release the crack and
Trump saying, we got massive dumps
of information and they're going to
be released then etc.
And then Dominion says, hey,
listen, you shrugs, you're going to
be in a lot of trouble,
financial trouble, because you're
obviously lying about us.
Then there's an internal memo that
says, we're lying about them.
So then Trump this is himself from
Sydney Powell.
Why?
Because he's afraid of getting sued
is the minute money is involved.
He said, no, Sydney Powell,
who is she?
I don't know who she is,
classic Trump, right?
Then the real lawyers leave
the building and understand how
unbelievable that is.
If you're representing
the President of the United States
on an election issue that is career
making case.
So the ones
that represented Bush and
Gore still brag about it are still
celebrated all across town for
all that stuff, Bush lawyer, that's
the Gore lawyer in 2000, right?
These guys bail on Trump anyway.
Why?
Because he's says to them,
why don't you just go in and lie?
Why don't just go and
tell them that I won.
They're like, yeah, but
we need evidence.
He's like, shut up.
I thought you were a lawyer.
Go in there and
goddamnit life for me.
And lawyers go even though
this would make my entire career, I
would get disbarred, I can't do it.
So they leave.
So then Trump's like, well who's
an idiot who's not a real lawyer.
They are like,
well Sidney Powell is great,
bring her back.
And that's how things went down.
So does Trump know that he
was lying?
Of course, of course,
he knows he was lying.
And so at least there is now
a memo, but it doesn't matter.
There's no amount of information or
evidence that would ever get 30% of
the country to change their
minds because they're in a cult.