Police arrested a Virginia Democrat this week on felony charges of election and voter fraud.
Blacksburg Town Councilman Liam Watson, a 24-year-old Democrat operative, allegedly committed three counts of election fraud and one count of illegal voting in an election in August 2023, according to online court records. The Montgomery County grand jury “handed up” the charges on Tuesday, and Watson turned himself in to the Virginia State Police (VSP) on Wednesday, according to VSP Public Relations Director Corinne Geller.
“The United States Postal Inspection Service assisted the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation with this matter,” Geller said in an email. “The investigation remains ongoing.”
Watson allegedly “feloniously and intentionally” made false statements or entries last year on his Virginia voter registration application, on a statement of organization candidate committee, and on a declaration of candidacy form, according to indictments obtained by The Federalist. He also allegedly “feloniously and intentionally” voted in an election in which “he was not qualified to vote.”
All of the crimes were allegedly committed in Montgomery County, which contains the town of Blacksburg.
“Watson has served the citizens of Montgomery County in various roles for a number of years and was most recently elected in 2023 in a write in campaign by the citizens of Blacksburg for a seat on the Blacksburg Town Council,” his attorneys said in a statement to a local news outlet. “He is 24 years old, with a heart for public service, and has worked diligently for the citizens who elected him.”
Ian Lichacz, who works for the office of Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, told The Federalist the state police approached his office in March.
“In this case back in March VSP came to the AG’s office with evidence and asked for permission to investigate,” Lichacz said, “and the AG’s office approved it.”
The VSP then proceeded to investigate “an allegation of election fraud,” according to Geller.
Watson was released from jail on a personal recognizance bond for all of the charges, Geller said.
Watson has an extensive background in Democrat politics. He worked as press secretary for the Democratic Party of Virginia from June 2022 through December 2023, according to LinkedIn, and as a digital specialist for the Democratic Party of Georgia from May to June of 2022.
The Roanoke Times reported Watson has been employed for close to six months with Sapphire Strategies, which, according to the agency’s website, specializes in “comprehensive digital strategy to help progressive campaigns and causes.” The group has done work for Democrats like former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former Obama cabinet member Julián Castro, according to its website. Sapphire offers digital get-out-the-vote advertising to “persuade every last on-the-fence voter and turn out every last base Democrat.”
Watson also publicly criticized election security efforts by Republicans.
In an October post on X, Watson accused Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, and state Republicans of “taking actions to undermine voting rights.” The accusation was in response to a New York Times hit piece about grassroots election integrity groups “training poll watchers” and “recruiting election workers.”
In another post
last month supporting the efforts of Virginia Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine,
Watson touted the importance of “work[ing] to expand early voting access
in Montgomery County to ensure that everyone – regardless of zip code –
receives every opportunity to make their voice heard.” [SOURCE]
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Nick Searcy, producer and a star of the documentary film “The War on Truth” about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion, believes that much of what happened that day was a pre-planned operation.
“The War on Truth” is the sequel to the 2021 documentary film “Capitol Punishment.”
“It was absolutely pre-planned,” Searcy told The Western Journal in a recent interview regarding the incursion.
“The reason why, you know, people are still mystified. Why were the police on one side of the building trying to keep people out and on the other side, you are inviting people in? They wanted people inside the building because what was going on inside that building was exactly what the people who went to Washington on Jan. 6 wanted to happen.”
He noted that Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had stood up along with GOP House members during the counting of the Electoral College voter to challenge the integrity of the results in Arizona. Other senators and House lawmakers planned to do the same thing for other key swing states, like Pennsylvania.
“They were challenging the vote. They were trying to send it back to the states for ten days to verify the count,” Searcy said. “That was exactly what everybody that was there [protesting] wanted except for the Democrats in power.”
As soon as people were reported in the building, the process stopped, and when the lawmakers reconvened later in the day, the argument that prevailed was, “It’s too dangerous. We can’t continue with this process. We’ve got to go ahead and certify Joe Biden as our president right now,” Searcy contended.
He concluded, “So everything that was done that day did not benefit the Jan. 6 protesters or the Republican side at all. Everything that was done that day benefited the deep state, benefited Joe Biden and the people who wanted him to be president.”
“The War on Truth” director Chris Burgard agreed.
“I’m a movie director, so I was there that day, and what we were watching was a movie. You would see people walking in doors being escorted in by the Capitol Police, and then you’d see a fight over window just 20 yards away. It made no sense,” he told The Western Journal.
Burgard, like Searcy, argued it “was designed and worked brilliantly to stop any of the investigation of the contested votes, ballots in the swing states.”
He pointed to the assessments of two experts appearing in the documentary, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Gen. (Ret.) Michael Flynn and retired military intelligence Col. (Ret.) Carol Stewart.
They “tell you in the movie, this is an operation. This is pre-scripted. You’re watching a movie,” Burgard said.
"The War on Truth" documentary film director Chis Burgard tells @WestJournalism some events that happened on Jan. 6 were scripted. pic.twitter.com/USxItMRDtK
— Randy DeSoto (@RandyDeSoto) July 24, 2024
Another person appearing in the “The War on Truth” said, “Every military guy, I know, every three-letter [federal agency] guy I know that was at Jan. 6 — we all saw the same things happening. We all knew that this was an operation.”
The documentary includes footage of a red signal flare going up over the Jan. 6 protest at 2:43 p.m.
Then soon thereafter someone pops a yellow smoke grenade, and “1 minute later Ray Epps and others push a Trump sign into police,” as footage shows.
Epps was an Arizona resident, who some accused of being an FBI informant because he was caught on camera urging people to “go in the Capitol.” Epps and the FBI denied he was working for them. He was later charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and given probation.
A red smoke grenade then goes off, and Epps, escorted by eight others, leaves the front lines of protest, moving away from the Capitol, according to the film.
Independent journalist Steve Baker, appearing in the documentary, recounted that a Special Forces individual told him that the red flare was an “avalanche” signal meaning time to “get out.”
“That was planned and coordinated,” Baker said.
“The War on Truth” also includes an exchange GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky had with Attorney General Merrick Garland during a congressional hearing in September 2023, during which the AG would neither confirm nor deny the FBI had assets among the Jan. 6 protesters.
"The American public isn't buying it."
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For three years the federal government has waged a war on truth. Now the truth fights back.
Who really died on J6 and why is the Federal Government lying about it to this day?
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Similarly, in January 2022, Cruz questioned then-FBI Assistant Executive Director Jill Sanborn during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the role the bureau may have played in the Capitol incursion.
“How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6?” Cruz asked.
“Sir, I’m sure you can appreciate that I can’t go into the specifics of sources and methods,” Sanborn answered.
Cruz then asked a broader question: “Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of Jan. 6? Yes or no?”
“Sir, I can’t answer that,” Sanborn replied.
CRUZ: "Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of January 6th?"
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 11, 2022
"I can't answer that." pic.twitter.com/UgD9mQVLkP
“The War on Truth” cited an ex-official in a September 2023 New York Post story headlined, “FBI lost count of how many paid informants were at Capitol on Jan. 6, and later performed audit to figure out exact number.”
Learn more and watch “The War on Truth” here.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal. [SOURCE]
Former President Donald Trump praised a female Secret Service agent at a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday who shielded him with her body during the assassination attempt that nearly killed him at a rally earlier this month.
The Secret Service has faced intense criticism since the event for leaving Trump exposed to gunfire from a nearby rooftop, and also for using female agents who were smaller than Trump and who, critics said, struggled to respond.
The use of female agents has been ascribed to “diversity, equity, inclusion” (DEI) policies, which are a major target of criticism by the Trump campaign and the conservative movement. But Trump defended an agent who ran to his side.
In an ad-libbed portion of his speech, he expressed his appreciation:
Every one of them — there wasn’t one that was slow. A woman who was on my right, she was shielding me. Beautiful person — she was shielding me, everything she could.. And she got criticized by the fake news because she wasn’t tall enough. Well, you know, she wasn’t tall enough. Because I’m tall, and she wasn’t tall enough. And she was criticized — she was so brave, she was shielding me with everything, she wanted to take a bullet, because the bullets were flying. And every one of those guys.
After weeks of refusing to resign, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on July 23 after a tough round of testimony about the event in Congress. [SOURCE]
This is the best thing i've seen today!! pic.twitter.com/ZPuFLpdhne
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— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) July 27, 2024
🚨 This is literally just the OVERFLOW CROWD of people that couldn’t get in to the Minnesota Trump Rally tonight
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 28, 2024
This is INSANE.
No Republican Presidential candidate has won MN in decades.
THAT CHANGES IN 2024! 🔥
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Spot the difference… pic.twitter.com/QZxQVes2iK
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