Cleta Mitchell Is Training Trump Loyalists to Monitor Polls

Oct 21, 2022 View Original Article
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"Mitchell remained at Foley & Lardner throughout Trump's first term, representing Steve Baon's nonprofit that later came under investigation for defrauding donors who gave money to build a border wall."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"That the government could spend years investigating him until they found wrongdoing convinced her that overreaching government regulation is one of the great scandals of our time."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"But on January 2, 2021, Mitchell got on a phone call with Trump in which the then-president exhorted Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 ballots, enough for Trump to prevail in the state over Biden."
Positive
8% Conservative
"But on January 2, 2021, Mitchell got on a phone call with Trump in which the then-president exhorted Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 ballots, enough for Trump to prevail in the state over Biden."
Positive
8% Conservative
"But on January 2, 2021, Mitchell got on a phone call with Trump in which the then-president exhorted Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 ballots, enough for Trump to prevail in the state over Biden."
Positive
8% Conservative
"On the day after Election Day 2020, Mitchell was in Montana, where she had been helping out a client, Senator Steve Daines, in his reelection race, when Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows asked her to get to Georgia as soon as she could."
Positive
22% Conservative
"On the day after Election Day 2020, Mitchell was in Montana, where she had been helping out a client, Senator Steve Daines, in his reelection race, when Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows asked her to get to Georgia as soon as she could."
Positive
22% Conservative
"On the day after Election Day 2020, Mitchell was in Montana, where she had been helping out a client, Senator Steve Daines, in his reelection race, when Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows asked her to get to Georgia as soon as she could."
Positive
22% Conservative
"Mitchell, 72, had spent two decades as one of the leading Republican members of the bar in Washington, D.C., from her perch at the white-shoe law firm Foley & Lardner, for which she represented everyone from Elizabeth Dole and Rick Santorum to Marco Rubio's super-PAC."
Positive
18% Conservative
"Mitchell, 72, had spent two decades as one of the leading Republican members of the bar in Washington, D.C., from her perch at the white-shoe law firm Foley & Lardner, for which she represented everyone from Elizabeth Dole and Rick Santorum to Marco Rubio's super-PAC."
Positive
18% Conservative
"Mitchell, 72, had spent two decades as one of the leading Republican members of the bar in Washington, D.C., from her perch at the white-shoe law firm Foley & Lardner, for which she represented everyone from Elizabeth Dole and Rick Santorum to Marco Rubio's super-PAC."
Positive
18% Conservative
"By the time she was 33, Time magazine described her as a promising woman Democrat alongside names like A Richards and Maxine Waters."
Positive
14% Conservative
"As the election got closer, Mitchell said, she got Trump's go-ahead to start an election-integrity working group."
Positive
10% Conservative
"On January 2, Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger got on a phone call with Trump, Meadows, and Mitchell, and the group pressed Raffensperger to, in Trump's words, find 11,780 votes."
Positive
8% Conservative
"On January 2, Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger got on a phone call with Trump, Meadows, and Mitchell, and the group pressed Raffensperger to, in Trump's words, find 11,780 votes."
Positive
8% Conservative
"On January 2, Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger got on a phone call with Trump, Meadows, and Mitchell, and the group pressed Raffensperger to, in Trump's words, find 11,780 votes."
Positive
8% Conservative
"They used that Zuckerberg money to exponentially drive up the turnout in Democratic areas in key states to overcome the Trump margin they knew he was going to get, she said."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Despite the focus of the political class on the many Republican candidates who refuse to accept that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, Mitchell has engaged in something more immediate: harnessing the energy of the angry Trumpian faithful to embed themselves in the guts of the nation's election machinery, believing the apparatus of poll workers and election observers and U.S. Postal Service employees is biased against conservatives."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Harry Reid has been offering free food and, according to other reports, some Democratic allies such as teachers unions are offering gift cards in return for a vote for Reid, Mitchell wrote in the letter, obtained and republished by the Las Vegas Sun, citing the specific Nevada statute that said it was a felony for a voter to be bribed for their vote and then attempting to raise $80,000 in contributions for Angle."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Harry Reid has been offering free food and, according to other reports, some Democratic allies such as teachers unions are offering gift cards in return for a vote for Reid, Mitchell wrote in the letter, obtained and republished by the Las Vegas Sun, citing the specific Nevada statute that said it was a felony for a voter to be bribed for their vote and then attempting to raise $80,000 in contributions for Angle."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Angle had said that man-made global warming was a fraud and that there were cities across America living under Sharia, and in the closing days of her race, Mitchell sent out a fundraising letter -- already an unusual practice for a lawyer -- in which she claimed that Reid was attempting to steal the election."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"After the 2020 election, Mitchell started the Election Integrity Network as part of the Conservative Partnership Institute, a think tank that serves as a sort of Trump administration-in-exile."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Jones said he was angry after the 2020 election and found as his salvation Mitchell, whom he introduced to the group on the call as Donald Trump's attorney in the Georgia recount."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"In 2010, Mitchell served as a campaign lawyer for Sharron Angle, a far-right Nevada lawmaker ruing against then-Senate majority leader Harry Reid."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Unfortunately, for her being Trump's lawyer, she was caught up in the cancel culture and actually lost her job in her law firm which she had been with for many years.Which isn't exactly right."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"But the day before, Trump dropped the lawsuit."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Cleta Mitchell is the coective tissue that runs from the begiing of Trump's efforts to criminally overturn the 2020 election results, through the setting up the terrible events of early January 2021 and continuing her election denial and constitutional-assault playbook through the present day, said Norm Eisen, who served as counsel for the House Judiciary Committee in the first Trump impeachment."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Mitchell remained at Foley & Lardner throughout Trump's first term, representing Steve Baon's nonprofit that later came under investigation for defrauding donors who gave money to build a border wall."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Trump lost the election while Republicans gained seats because he was uniquely unpopular, and many voters voted straight Republican except at the top of the ticket."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"But it wasn't that long ago that a number of Trump supporters, convinced there was something fraudulent in the November 2020 election, gathered together and used violent means to disrupt what should have been a pro forma process of counting electoral votes."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"The lawsuit argued that there were many more questionable votes than Biden's 11,779 vote margin, so there needed to be a redo election according to Georgia law."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Joe Biden won the presidency and the Democrats lost seats in the House and lost seats in state legislatures."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"The conservative media latched onto the idea that the IRS was biased against all sorts of conservative and tea-party groups, and a top leader of the agency was forced out in what was one of the bigger scandals of the Obama era."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"That Zuckerberg's philanthropic arms included a couple of people who had worked in the Obama administration, including David Plouffe, who wrote a book titled The Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump, make it all the more suspicious."
Positive
8% Conservative
"That Zuckerberg's philanthropic arms included a couple of people who had worked in the Obama administration, including David Plouffe, who wrote a book titled The Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump, make it all the more suspicious."
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8% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : Mitchell remained at Foley & Lardner throughout Trump's first term, representing Steve Bannon's nonprofit that later came under investigation for defrauding donors who gave money to build a border wall.
35% : That the government could spend years investigating him until they found wrongdoing convinced her that "overreaching government regulation is one of the great scandals of our time."

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