welcome to prime weekend. i m nicole wallace and let s get right to the week s top stories. threats and intimidation leading to doxxing and s.w.a.t.ing apparently. not enough to satiate donald trump and his maga accolytes. of course that was for concealing hush money payments to a porn star and it was meant to hide that information from the american voter ahead of the 2016. now trump allies are propertying their revenge and their retaliation against the people who have had the audacity to hold the ex- president accountable. of course all this happens at the expense of the rule of law. basic decency and our very democracy. new york times out today with quote, within hours of a jury finding trump guilty last week, the anger congealed into calls for action. since then prominent gop leaders and out of government have demanded that elected republicans use every available instrument of power against democrats. including targeted investigations and prosecutions. here s how trump
military satellites used to switch votes or server farms in germany. these were all things that were pursued at the highest levels. meadows himself you see in emails and documents released by the department of justice asking top doj officials to investigate. i also learned that this crazy italian gate, italy-gate conspiracy was january 2nd. meadows had chris miller meet with the lieutenant general who was in charge of the defense intelligence agency and the chief of staff of the pentagon. an emergency saturday meeting to talk about getting to the bottom of this italy conspiracy. nuts, but it s at the highest levels of government. so this was again, these were the kinds of things that you could again, there s long continuity, like fluoride is being used by the communists to brain wash americans into sun
these qanon things, but what s significant here, is that trump actually asked the top intelligence official in the u.s. government. the director of national intelligence, don ratcliffe to look into this. and look into other conspiracy theories. and as chief of staff, mark meadows, if it wasn t looking at wireless thermostats made in china, controlling machines in georgia. it was, it tally in military satellites use to switch votes through the dominion machines. or, server farms in germany. these were all things that were pursued at the highest levels. meadows himself, you see any emails and documents that have been released, now, by the department of justice, asking top doj officials to investigate. i also learned that this crazy italian, italy gate conspiracy, was january 2nd. this same day as the raffensperger call. meadows had the acting defense secretary, chris miller, meet with the lieutenant general who
releases promoting the italy gate conspiracy. what the post discovered about both of those organizations is they are both run by michelle roosevelt edwards, who was formally known as michelle ballarin but changed her name last year. you ll remember u.s. aerospace partners. that is the company that bought wow air or at least bought that little model, went to a hotel to proclaim that they ll be flying again. apparently that company and its founder have a side business in promoting crazy pants election conspiracy theories. and good to know about her. and if it only went as far as her and her facebook friends, okay. but how did the fake mansion bow-tie lady s letter about the italian satellite stealing the election from trump or whatever, how did that make it into the
white house? according to reporting from both the washington post and talking points memo, it may have been this woman, who you see doing multiple right-wing radio show interviews here. she runs a conspiracy website who s url is i kid you not italydidit.com. that s her web address, italy did it. she claims to have gone to a christmas eve party at mar-a-lago last year after the election whereupon she had the opportunity to tell donald trump personally and directly about the italy gate conspiracy. and the italy gate conspiracy from the lady who pretends to live in that big mansion who says she s going to revive wow air. yeah. and at one level this is, like, the definition of ridiculous and stupid. at some point, frankly, if you re feeling empathetic, it implicates personal concerns or stability concerns about some of the people involved. scams are one thing, sure.