[Vision2020] The New Yorker, 8-2-21: Jane Mayer "The Big Money Behind the Big Lie"

[Ted Moffett]

The first paragraph of this article is copied in below... Truth stranger
than fiction?
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-big-money-behind-the-big-lie

*Donald Trump's attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and
powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs*

by Jane Mayer
August 2, 2021

It was tempting to dismiss the show unfolding inside the Dream City Church
in Phoenix, Arizona, as an unintended comedy. One night in June, a few
hundred people gathered for the première of “The Deep Rig,” a film financed
by the multimillionaire founder of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/14/a-tycoons-deep-state-conspiracy-dive>,
who is a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump
<https://www.newyorker.com/tag/donald-trump>. Styled as a documentary, the
movie asserts that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen by supporters
of Joe Biden <https://www.newyorker.com/tag/joe-biden>, including by Antifa
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/trump-antifa-movement-portland>
members
who chatted about their sinister plot on a conference call. The evening’s
program featured live appearances by Byrne and a local QAnon
<https://www.newyorker.com/tag/qanon> conspiracist, BabyQ, who claimed to
be receiving messages from his future self. They were joined by the film’s
director, who had previously made an exposé contending that the real
perpetrators of 9/11 were space aliens.
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