IIt has been described as an “explosive report” on the “foreign ties” of election technology company Dominion Voting Systems that Donald Trump’s legal team sent to state lawmakers to give them an overview of alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election. But despite the Trump team’s apparent eagerness to address the report and its claims in December 2020, it appears no one wants the right to write it three months later.
Katherine Friess, the volunteer for the Trump legal team whose name appears on the front page of the report, entitled “Dominion Voting Systems Overview 12/2/20”, and in metadata embedded in the document, says she has nothing to do with it had not. Friess and Bernie Kerik, a former New York police chief under former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a volunteer with the Trump legal team, say the report was passed by a former White House staffer to the former Trump trade adviser sent to the legal team. Peter Navarro. The former senior Trump official declined several opportunities to comment on the record for this story.
The difficulty of identifying an author for a report that Trump’s team was once happy to brag about underscores the extent to which the looming threat of lawsuits by Dominion Voting Systems has dropped veterans over the 2020 presidential election attempt to stop. Advocates for Dominion have filed $ 1.3 billion lawsuits against Trump’s personal lawyer Giuliani, pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and pillow magnate Mike Lindell for their alleged slander of the software for the company’s votes, with reports that on pad was.
Senior Trump campaign officials, including former president and head of the legal team, Giuliani, have been publicly broadcast since the conspiracy theories about the rule were unleashed, from non-existent ties with Venezuela to expire ‘deleted’ votes. But Friess and Kerik’s claims that an assistant to the Trump administration shared the report with the campaign’s legal team suggest that the White House was even more involved in trying to raise questions about Dominion’s products.
The Dominion report first appeared in public in early December in an article on the Gateway Pundit, a conspiracy site for Trump. The story claims that the Trump campaign used the document to inform state lawmakers about their allegations of voter fraud. The report describes itself as an ‘overview’ of Dominion Voting Systems ” history, drivers, voice manipulation capability and design ‘and’ foreign ties ‘, and reiterates a number of claims that have since been discredited, including Dominion’s ties with’ several state-run Venezuelan software and telecommunications companies ”and that the company’s products use software from another election technology company, Smartmatic.
Friess’ name appears on the front page and metadata embedded in a PDF uploaded to Archive.org, to which The Gateway Pundit linked. In an email to The Daily Beast, Friess insisted she had nothing to do with the report and did not know how her name appeared on the document.
‘I had nothing to do with the research, writing or production of the Dominion report. I have no idea how my name appeared on a front page for it, who did it, or why, “Friess told The Daily Beast, claiming that the report was ‘distributed’ by a member of Navarro’s team. is.
Kerik, who was pardoned by Trump for a number of crimes and later helped the Trump legal team in his crusade to destroy President Joe Biden’s victory, said Friess was not involved in the production of the Dominion report. ‘It was actually sent by the mayor’s legal team by [a person with] Peter Navarro’s office [on] 11/29 however I’m not sure [Peter] saw it before we received it. ”
Kerik continues: ‘I believe Navarro did not see it, and I do not believe he wrote it. However, it was sent to me and the legal team via a then assistant in the White House who worked for Peter. ‘
During a call on Monday, Kerik read The Daily Beast’s e-mail that the ‘then assistant in the White House’ sent on November 29, but he did not want to name who sent it. The Daily Beast has since confirmed that the transmitter was indeed an official who worked in the Trump White House.
Kerik is working with Giuliani on the Trump legal team to gather affidavits about irregularities in the 2020 election and “liaise with people who want to discuss the matter with the president or mayor,” he said. Kerik added that Friess’ had never met with Giuliani or the president before coming in and volunteering to help with the justice system. I was the one who introduced her to the mayor. I was with her in the White House for the first time [Trump], and it was a meeting with Giuliani and [others]. ”
Navarro, a trusted Trump loyalist, also wrote three documents, collectively ‘The Navarro Report’ (‘The Immaculate Deception’, ‘The Art of the Steal’ and ‘Yes, President Trump Won’), wrongly claiming that the voter fraud is wrong. and irregularities that toppled Trump’s election to Biden.
Friess recently made headlines when her name surfaced as part of a visit by a forensic team linked by Giuliani, who traveled to Antrim County, Michigan in November to copy voter data in connection with a local lawsuit against provincial officials. The Record Eagle reports that Friess ‘bragged’ about the fact that she recently went out to dinner with Trump and Rudy Giuliani at local officials, but Friess says she never had a dinner with Trump and ‘definitely’ never claimed that she had it. did not.
Friess says she joined the Trump legal team as a volunteer attorney to ensure the integrity of the election, as did hundreds of other volunteer attorneys across the country. ‘
According to Kerik, “she” assisted in the preparation of legal documents, interviews and affidavits; and coordinated travel, legislative hearings and meetings, as prescribed by the mayor or myself. ”