Ex-Colonel Shares Crazy Theory On Poll Rigging With Trump Gang

A few days after President Biden’s inauguration put to rest the most chaotic transition in US history, a former Army colonel with a background in information warfare appeared on a Christian conservative podcast and offered a detailed account of his months-long effort to challenge the validity of the 2020 vote count, Alan Feuer reported for the New York Times.

Photo Insert: Phil Waldron (right) described how a cabal of bad actors, including Chinese Communist officials, international shell companies, and the financier George Soros, had quietly conspired to hack into US voting machines in a “globalist/socialist” plot to steal the election.

In a pleasant Texas drawl, the former officer, Phil Waldron, told the hosts a story that was almost inconceivable: How a cabal of bad actors, including Chinese Communist officials, international shell companies, and the financier George Soros, had quietly conspired to hack into US voting machines in a “globalist/socialist” plot to steal the election.

In normal times, a tale like that — full of wild and baseless claims — might have been dismissed as the overheated rantings of a conspiracy theorist. But the post-election period was not normal, providing all sorts of fringe players an opportunity to find an audience in the White House.

Waldron stands as a case study. Working in conjunction with allies of President Donald Trump, like Rudolph Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, a member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus — and in tandem with others like Michael Flynn, Mr. Trump’s first national security adviser, and a retired lieutenant general — Waldron managed to get a hearing for elements of his story in the very center of power in Washington.

And Waldron’s yarn has been propagated by Trump himself and his confederates and media shills.

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