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TexasTowelie

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Tue Jun 14, 2022, 07:41 PM Jun 2022

She Helped Create the Big Lie. Records Suggest She Turned It Into a Big Grift.

Over the last two presidential election cycles, True the Vote has raised millions in donations with claims that it discovered tide-turning voter fraud. It’s promised to release its evidence. It never has.

Instead, the Texas-based nonprofit organization has engaged in a series of questionable transactions that sent more than $1 million combined to its founder, a longtime board member romantically linked to the founder and the group’s general counsel, an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.

A former PTA mom-turned-Tea Party activist, True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht has played a pivotal role in helping drive the voter fraud movement from the political fringes to a central pillar in the Republican Party’s ideology. Casting herself as a God-fearing, small-town Texan, she’s spread the voter-fraud gospel by commanding airtime on cable television, space on the pages of Breitbart News and even theater seats, as a new feature film dramatizing her organization’s exploits, “2000 Mules,” plays in cinemas across the country.

Along the way, she’s gained key allies across the conservative movement. Former President Donald Trump, who shouts her out by name during rallies and held a private screening for the film at his Mar-a-Lago resort, exploited the group’s declarations to proclaim that he won the popular vote in 2016. Provocateur Dinesh D’Souza partnered with Engelbrecht on the film. And she’s represented by the legal heavyweight James Bopp Jr., who helped dismantle abortion rights, crafted many of the arguments in the Citizens United case that revolutionized campaign finance law and was part of the legal team that prevailed in Bush v. Gore.

A review of thousands of pages of documents from state filings, tax returns and court records, however, paints the picture of an organization that enriches Engelbrecht and partner Gregg Phillips rather than actually rooting out any fraud. According to the documents, True the Vote has given questionable loans to Engelbrecht and has a history of awarding contracts to companies run by Engelbrecht and Phillips. Within days of receiving $2.5 million from a donor to stop the certification of the 2020 election, True the Vote distributed much of the money to a company owned by Phillips, Bopp’s law firm and Engelbrecht directly for a campaign that quickly fizzled out.

Read more: https://revealnews.org/article/true-the-vote-big-lie-election-fraud/

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She Helped Create the Big Lie. Records Suggest She Turned It Into a Big Grift. (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2022 OP
Juanita Jean has had dealings this scam group and its founder LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #1

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. Juanita Jean has had dealings this scam group and its founder
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 06:35 PM
Jun 2022

Juanita Jean has had to deal with the tea party idiot who founded this group https://juanitajean.com/true-the-vote/

This will not be the first time, or even the third or eighth time, you have read about Cathy Engelbrecht here at the beauty salon. She’s been on our radar for ten years when she was speaking in church basements and VFW halls in the Houston area, pushing the idea that it’s too damn easy to vote. She would get the attendees name and addresses, mostly very old people, and send them requests for money. She didn’t like my questions and quickly named me “that woman” and told people I was a reporter as she rolled her eyes.

She had difficulty giving me any examples of the horror of illegal voting that she claimed was killing America. I could give her a couple of examples that happened right in her neighborhood, but they were both Republicans. She quickly informed me that she wasn’t talking about just two people, she was talking about hundreds, thousands. She just didn’t know any of them.

And then the third example hit. The Republican man she was personally supporting for county commissioner voted in two states for three elections and I had his signature to prove it. I wrote about it in the newspaper and he was defeated soundly.

I once described her as an attractive woman with a dollar sign on her forehead. She always had her hand out. She was far more concerned with raising money than illegal voting.

And now the Washington Post says she’s being sued for taking $2 million from a donor and producing the same thing I saw her produce – diddle squat.
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