Convention circuit of delusion gives forum for election lies

NEW RICHMOND, Wisconsin - For a few hours last weekend, thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters came together in a field under the blazing Wisconsin sun to live in an alternate reality where the former president was still in office — or would soon return.

Clad in red MAGA hats and holding “Trump 2021” signs, they cheered in approval as Mike Lindell, the My Pillow creator-turned-conspiracy peddler, introduced “our real president.” Then Trump appeared via Jumbotron to repeat the lie that has become his central talking point since losing to Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes: “The election was rigged.”

Lindell later promised the audience that Trump would soon be reinstated into the presidency, a prospect for which there is no legal or constitutional method.

Taken together, the gatherings have gelled into a convention circuit of delusion centered on the false premise that the election was stolen. Lindell and others use the events to deepen their bond with legions of followers who eschew the mainstream press and live within a conservative echo chamber of talk radio and social media. In these forums, “evidence” of fraud is never fact-checked, leaving many followers genuinely convinced that Biden shouldn’t be president.

Trump spent months girding himself against possible defeat, insisting he could only lose if there was massive fraud. It’s a lie he’s sure to repeat as he steps up his public schedule in the coming weeks.

I read the article that the AP says “debunks” the PCAP data that Lindell was presented by the NSA whisleblower and it is nonsense. Lindell didn’t capture the data himself he was presented the PCAPs by the NSA whistleblower who wants to avoid a prision sentance for releasing it. The NSA clearly has the resources to capture and reconstruct the international packet data since this is their job.

Mike showed the hex data dumps of the PCAPs that looked like tcpdump format for dramatic reasons but this is not how IT people view it. They use Wireshark or SolarWinds that decrypt it and, as Mike showed, graphically reconstruct the source and target locations from the packet domain masks. The payload data (what the packet is transferring over HTTP protocol) is SSL encrypted but the NSA also captures the key log data that contain the information needed to decrypt the HTTP payload. This information shows the specific “Get” and “Post” data that was passed to applications on the target Dominion machine.

The API (application programmer’s interface) messages used to communicate with the Dominion machines are published as part of the user manual and correspond to the requests to use the “ranked choice voting” algorithm in the software to adjust the fractional vote totals between the presidential candidates and subtract votes from Trump.

In case anyone thinks that this data was “manufactured” the packets can be encrypted with SHA-512 algorithms and compared to the same packets captured on non NSA machines by any IT staff on any other router on the net at the same time to verify that they have not been altered.

Lindell has invited real CISSP certified professional to challenge the data that he was provided and will answer any questions at his symposium in July. The evidence has definitely not been “debunked”.

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