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Edward Helmore at The Guardian:

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin has disclosed that Donald Trump repeatedly mused out loud about executing people at several meetings while she worked for him during his presidency.

Griffin’s claim, which she made in a podcast recording with Mediaite released on Friday, is likely to add to concerns that a return for Trump to the Oval Office could be characterized primarily by political retribution. The former communications director for the Trump administration told the outlet she had been at a meeting at which he “straight up said a staffer who leaked … should be executed”, referring to an anonymously sourced report that the former president had gone into a secure bunker at the White House at the height of the racial justice protests prompted by a Minneapolis police officer’s murder of George Floyd. “There were others where we talked about executing people,” Griffin said. In response to Griffin’s comments, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek: “As President Trump has said, the best revenge is the success and prosperity of all Americans.”

Under the constitution, a president has no direct power to enforce capital punishment. But the president does have the power to appoint attorneys general who oversee key decisions concerning federal capital punishment. Rumors around Trump’s interest in summary executions have been making the rounds for years. As he geared up to run for a second presidency in November, Trump reportedly asked three people: “What do you think of firing squads?” And he has repeatedly backed expanding the use of the federal death penalty. According to Rolling Stone, Trump has also mused about bringing back hanging and the guillotine – all while televising their use – because it “would help put the fear of God into violent criminals”. A Trump spokesperson said at the time to Rolling Stone that “either these people are fabricating lies out of thin air” or the outlet is “allowing themselves to be duped by these morons”.

[...] Griffin left the White House in December 2020, weeks after Trump lost the election to Joe Biden but refused to accept the legitimacy of the result. She is now a commentator for CNN and co-host of the ABC talkshow The View.

Appearing on Mediaite’s Press Club podcast this past Friday, guest Alyssa Farah Griffin revealed that Donald Trump had an authoritarian habit about musing executing leakers.

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From the 06.14.2024 edition of Mediaite's Press Club:

Lou Dobbs Debunks “Own Lies About Smartmatic”

I just love it when someone like Lou Dobbs proves himself wrong! 😂

According to Josh Feldman on Mediaite:

“In a stunning segment on Friday, Dobbs aired what amounted to a fact-check of the false and misleading claims he himself made.

“Dobbs started the segment by saying, ‘There are lots of opinions about the integrity of the election, the irregularities of mail-in voting, of election voting machines and voting software. One of the companies is Smartmatic, and we reached out to one of the leading authorities on open source software for elections, Eddie Perez, for his insight and views.’ [....]

‘Perez — the Global Director of Technology Development & Open Standards for the Open Source Election Technology Institute — blunty said, ‘I have not seen any evidence that Smartmatic’s software was used to delete, change, alter anything related to vote tabulation.’

“’Smartmatic says its software was never used outside of L.A. County in 2020. Do you know whether or not that’s true?’ was one of the questions.

“’That is my understanding,’ Perez said.

“He also made it clear that Smartmatic and Dominion are completely separate companies, and even more tellingly, he pushed back on the idea that there is a direct connection between Smartmatic and George Soros.

“Perez debunked one of the more incendiary claims about votes supposedly being tabulated in foreign countries.

“’In the United States the ballots that are cast in the United States are tabulated in the united States.’”