former chief of staff to speaker paul ryan and one of the authors of the afore mentioned report, lost, not stolen. the affirmative case that trump lost and biden won the 2020 presidential election. abidal la fayed, opinion writer. thank you for being here. i ve got to ask you this sort of baseline question. it s a two-part question. what does it mean that in the year of our lord, 2022, you have to write a detailed report explaining that a person who lost by like 8 million votes actually lost, how bad does that mean that it s gotten inside the republican party? and why do you think that the people who are maga at this stage would listen to the ryan wing of the party, the paul ryan wing of the party is what they basically erased. well, one of the things i think you have to look at on this is that this report was looking at every bit of evidence we could find in six specific
this stuff. and this is coming on the heels of the president having mentioned mr. clark. then there s the evidence, text messages from that afore mentions congressman to trump s chef of staff saying, 11 days till january 6th. you should call jeff. again, incriminaing because that day, the 6th we ve heard was so out of control and unpredictable was on the minds of so many individuals working inside the government to override your votes and steal this election from you, the american people. then they did get in touch with clark. trump was intent on making him head of the doj he could steal the election. you ve seen barr stand up the trump, so it wasn t something that could be a slam dunk actionable coup, but it was donald trump pushing to the very end to try to get that coup help on the inside. then there s these official call logs.
against us. and number two, disinformation war, lifting up their dukes to stage violent protests in the united states for masks and vaccines and other excuses. they can attack us in the united states using cybertools. they already have in the past. that list of 16 areas that biden gave them is their target list. you remember when russians allegedly, not the government, russians shut down the colonial gas pipeline, just a few months ago. that s just afore taste of what could happen. would it, should it, trigger article 5? well, nato has said as recently as this week, the head of nato, mr. stoltenberg has said that it would. the attack on one using cyberwar techniques would be an attack on