{"id":1760501,"date":"2022-12-03T06:06:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760501"},"modified":"2022-12-03T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T14:03:45","slug":"deposition-reveals-fbi-plot-to-influence-the-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deposition-reveals-fbi-plot-to-influence-the-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Deposition Reveals FBI Plot to Influence the 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeposition-reveals-fbi-plot-to-influence-the-2020-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760501&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f3733ae8-12d5-4caf-a6cc-f854e7c5b354-1110x740-1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The 2020 election remains one of the most contentious in history, and the more we learn about how deep the government\u2019s interference went, the more disturbing things get.<\/p>\n<p>According to Eric Schmitt, the current attorney general of Missouri and its newly-elected senator, the FBI was having weekly meetings with social media companies prior to election day in 2020 to collude on suppressing information. That was revealed in the deposition of <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bonchie\/2022\/11\/16\/fbi-and-white-house-slapped-down-by-judge-in-major-censorship-case-n659832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elvis Chan<\/a>, the FBI\u2019s liaison in the scheme.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: In our deposition of FBI agent Elvis Chan on Tuesday, we found that the FBI plays a big role in working with social media companies to censor speech \u2013 from weekly meetings with social media companies ahead of the 2020 election to asks for account takedowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eric_Schmitt\/status\/1598733187135393793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deposition-reveals-fbi-plot-to-influence-the-2020-election\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Those meetings were initially quarterly, then monthly, then weekly heading into the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eric_Schmitt\/status\/1598733450738995201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eric_Schmitt\/status\/1598733450738995201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On many occasions, the platforms took down the accounts flagged by the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eric_Schmitt\/status\/1598734052764196864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eric_Schmitt\/status\/1598734052764196864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Schmitt, the FBI was colluding with social media companies, giving them specific direction on what content to suppress. That means specific URLs and accounts. The social media companies, all led by leftwing hacks at that point, were apparently more than happy to play along.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I\u2019m not sure that the minutia of the situation is what\u2019s most important here, and Republicans should avoid letting the FBI out on some technicality. The only thing that actually matters here is that the federal government does not have a role in policing \u201cdisinformation\u201d domestically. For my money, they don\u2019t have that mandate in regard to international actors either.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the FBI was running a complex scheme, colluding with social media companies to target specific accounts and news stories, with seemingly all of the moves made being politically beneficial to Democrats. In doing so, they shut down a verifiably true story about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop that could have swung the entire election. The suppression of information regarding COVID-19 just so happened to help Democrats as well. What a coincidence, right?<\/p>\n<p>This is dangerous, anti-American stuff. The government should not be sticking its nose into the proliferation of free speech, online or elsewhere. In the case of Hunter Biden, a major American news outlet, The New York Post, was banned and censored for reporting factual information.<\/p>\n<p>And if the FBI is willing to admit this stuff in a sworn deposition, imagine what they aren\u2019t admitting to that took place. Just how deep did the deep-state plot to deny Donald Trump a second term actually go? That\u2019s a question we may never receive an answer to, but Schmitt\u2019s lawsuit is a good start to pulling back the veil on what went on and may still be going on.<\/p>\n<p>Further, with Republicans having retaken the House of Representatives, the time for them to press these issues is now. With Democrats holding the power at the DOJ, there won\u2019t be any criminal charges coming, but it\u2019s still important to expose exactly what the FBI was doing. Hopefully, that will offer enough of a deterrent so this doesn\u2019t happen in 2024, though I\u2019m not going to hold my breath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Trending on Redstate Video<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 election remains one of the most contentious in history, and the more we learn about how deep the government\u2019s interference went, the more disturbing things get. 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