During a recent gubernatorial debate, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, a Republican candidate, asserted that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had a hand in stealing the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump.
Warner, a 23-year U.S. Army veteran and the current Secretary of State of West Virginia, highlights his military and administrative background as a cornerstone of his gubernatorial campaign.
In a recent Metro News debate, Warner reiterated his prior claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election, explicitly pointing the finger at the CIA, stating, “The election was stolen, and it was stolen by the CIA.”
Warner cited Mike Morrell’s testimony, the former Deputy Director of the CIA, before Jim Jordan’s House Judiciary Committee. He emphasized Morrell’s statements regarding a discussion with Antony Blinken, a senior adviser for the Biden campaign who later became Secretary of State.
This conversation revolved around a report concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop and took place shortly before the release of a statement on Oct. 19, 2020, from 51 former intelligence officials. The statement implied that the narrative regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop was “influenced” by a Russian disinformation campaign.
“When Mike Morell testified under oath to Jim Jordan that, yes, he colluded with Antony Blinken to sell a lie to the American people two weeks before the election for the very purpose of throwing the presidential election. How does it not get stolen if the FBI covers it up and Mark Zuckerberg pays $400 million to put his thumb on the scale? That’s not fair,” Warner said.
Morell stated that he was “triggered” by his conversation with Blinken to organize the letter and the signatures in order to “help Vice President Biden” because he “wanted him to win the election.”
Q: Prior to @SecBlinken call, you did not have intent to write this statement?@MichaelJMorell: I did not.
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) April 21, 2023
Q: So his call triggered that intent?@MichaelJMorell: Yes. Absolutely.@Jim_Jordan: You wanted to help the Vice President why?@MichaelJMorell: Because I wanted him to… https://t.co/1JIoKAhAFV
The laptop included bank statements, incriminating emails, and photos of meetings and gifts from their Chinese Communist business partners.
Metro News reported:
Warner has sewn these claims together before, in particular while as a speaker for a “ReAwaken America” rally last August headlined by Flynn.
While on stage and in the spotlight, Warner said the CIA had used a “psychological operation” to affect the election. He also spoke of some of his fellow Americans as “enemies.”
“Fifty-one so-called intelligence experts sign a letter saying this has all the indicia of Russian disinformation. Note the quibbling here. Doesn’t say it is; they say it has the indicia of,” Warner said, his hand wavering to make the point.
“So they put the information out, and then Joe Biden uses it. Catch that: Joe Biden used that against Trump in that election just two weeks prior and said ‘Oh, that has been debunked by 51 intelligence experts.’ And there wasn’t time to overcome that. And now they start laughing about it. They brag about it. What they got away with.”
Warner cited his own military service — and Flynn’s — to say “We’re familiar with psychological operations. This is where I really get pissed. They lied to the American people.”
“It wasn’t until March of this year, more than two years after the 2020 election, that I had to start worrying about those domestic enemies. And that domestic enemy — we have met the enemy and they are us — it’s the CIA and the FBI,” Warner said to cheers.
Though 70% of the country thinks this, few Republican candidates have the courage to say it. A Republican who will not say this is not worthy of your vote.
— Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) December 11, 2023
candidate Mac Warner: ‘The election was stolen, and it was stolen by the CIA’ – WV MetroNews https://t.co/JjEOvTwvTe
