thing called italy-gate. mark meadows sent an e-mail to the acting attorney general at the time asking him to look into this theory that there was some italian contractor who was using satellites to change vote tallies on machines voting machines in the united states. on a december 27th call with the new acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, trump pushed him to, quote, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. it raises questions about corruption or fraud, just saying they re investigating it or looking into it. that allows republican congressmen to go out there and do the rest of the work and put the pressure on the states to start their own audits, and again, gives him room to operate between then and january 6th.
according to the reporting we have, trump touted his administration s work to expand the use of paper ballots and support security on it on vote tallies. president trump was so encouraged by federal efforts to protect election systems that he suggested the fbi and the department of homeland security hold a press conference to take credit for their work. bragging about the security of election systems. all the way back in february of 2020. president trump knew the election was going to be secure. he knew so well that he wanted the fbi and homeland security to go out and tell everyone how secure america s elections were. put a press release out. talk the public, take credit for in advance. and then something unthinkable happened. a global pandemic.
according to the reporting we have, trump touted his administration s work to expand the use of paper ballots and support security on it on vote tallies. president trump was so encouraged by federal efforts to protect election systems that he suggested the fbi and the department of homeland security hold a press conference to take credit for their work. bragging about the security of election systems. all the way back in february of 2020. president trump knew the election was going to be secure. he knew so well that he wanted the fbi and homeland security to go out and tell everyone how secure america s elections were. put a press release out. talk the public, take credit for in advance. and then something unthinkable happened. a global pandemic. within weeks that meeting, covid-19 was spreading and it was spreading rapidly across the united states.