"Between posts declaring former President Barack Obama a traitor and inaccurate claims Walmart is shutting down in California, the president reshared a screengrab of an X post to his 11.6 million followers on Truth Social alleging that Italian officials at [defense contractor] Leonardo SpA used military satellites to help hack U.S. voting machines, flipping votes from Trump to Biden using CIA-developed tools like Hammer and Scorecard."
"China reportedly coordinated the whole operation, the post claimed, while the CIA oversaw it and the FBI covered it up. (Screengrab via Truth Social) This particularly elaborate conspiracy theory, dubbed Italygate, is not new and was, in fact, mainlined from QAnon channels to staffers in the first Trump administration during the months between the 2020 election and former President Joe Biden's inauguration, while Trump was pushing claims the election was rigged."
"According to Karl, it was Virginia businesswoman Michele Ballarin, who presented herself as a wealthy intelligence insider, that first pushed the claims Italian military satellites had remotely altered U.S. voting machines. Ballarin, who also used the names Michele Roosevelt Edwards and Michele Lyn Golden but also went by the princess made contact with the National Security Council's then-cybersecurity director Josh Steinman through intermediaries."
President Donald Trump reshared a screengrab alleging that Italian defense contractor Leonardo SpA used military satellites to hack U.S. voting machines and flip votes from Trump to Biden using CIA-developed tools like Hammer and Scorecard. The claim asserted that China coordinated the operation, the CIA oversaw it, and the FBI covered it up. The conspiracy, dubbed Italygate, circulated in QAnon channels and reached administration staffers in the months between the 2020 election and Joe Biden's inauguration while claims of a rigged election persisted. Virginia businesswoman Michele Ballarin, who used names including Michele Roosevelt Edwards and Michele Lyn Golden and presented herself as an intelligence insider, promoted the claims and contacted the National Security Council's then-cybersecurity director Josh Steinman through intermediaries.
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