How did false claims of election fraud make their way to the center of American politics? FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the plot to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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FRONTLINE and ProPublica uncover how a small group of people helped to create some of the core narratives of fraud that President Donald Trump and many others would go on to champion after the election — and how the legacy of their effort is impacting democracy and shaping elections to come.
“Plot to Overturn the Election†is a FRONTLINE production with Midnight Films, LLC in partnership with ProPublica. The correspondent is A.C. Thompson. The producer, writer and director is Samuel Black. The executive producer for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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I am a Republican but, looking back, I have to admire Al Gore. He had a much more valid claim than Trump to being the real winner but he did not want to divide the country and he accepted George W. Bush as president
DJT the Best President of all time
Trump started claiming the election would be rigged if he didn't win by August of 20 20! He was counting on his preferred" poorly educated" base.
This is such bullshit …. PBS …. Uuggh … figures.
I really like the production value of Frontline documentaries, but I find them to be incredibly biased. They only use "" insiders "" they never give both sides of the story and essentially that's corruption.
No wonder Dominion sued! Glad they won the suit.
I don't understand this country is born on lie violation taking, slavery kidnapping. American wasn't built on civil . Why act like American so civilized..stop
I briefly flirted with the Green Party, seeking an alternative to the democrats. I experienced all the same things in the greens as the republicans are now doing – they had us monitor the local elections and claimed the Dominion machines were suspect . When I did that though and just saw people going about their duties during the election I realized that it was just conspiracies and the greens were just trying to use us, not grow a legitimate new party.
God help us all
Does this journalist think hes Batman? Why tf is he talking and narrating in that voice like that bahhahahaha
They don’t even realize how ridiculous they sound this is so scary all the lies that many believe
Funny how millions of voters suddenly disappeared from 2024 compared to 2020. If Trump is so dangerous and democracy really mattered that much, it would have had a larger turnout than 2020. 😂😂😂
This just came up in my YT feed. The election was stolen and it was done within the Dominion voting system. I reviewed the vote data myself and figured out the algorithm used.
My background is former NSA with a TS/SCI clearence, later 30 years in cyber security, retired now. I was able to get a hold of the vote data for the entire country. I vote in AZ. Many were looking at AZ and other contested states. I decided to look at other states to see if I could find anything. I picked NY.
Going through the vote uploads from the districts throught the course of election night I noticed an anomoly that stuck out to me like a sore thumb. It appeared that there was a consistency in the vote distribution between Biden/Trump with each district upload. So I worked out some math. What I found out was with each district upload votes were divided between Biden and Trump in a manner in which Biden maintained a percentage lead. It became obvious to me that this was done systematically within the Dominion system because for many consecutive district uploads the votes were divided by a ratio precise to the 9th decimal.
For example there was 12 consecutive vote uploads from 12 districts and no matter the number of votes from the district the votes were divided to give Biden 59.264894731% of the votes. This happened consistently throughout the night until most districts completed their vote uploads and Biden have enough votes to call Biden winning NY.
What was also evident was at the very end they had distributed so many votes to Biden that they walked back over 600,000 votes for Biden.
I have the data and I documented my analysis, math and methodology. I will share it with anyone.
Hispanics knew this wasn’t going to change nothing here till it effected wht people too so glad ya have finally picked the right side haha ⤠anti MAGA are just showing the world the passion they have for patriotism lllol
A.C. = Total Tool.
A disgraceful period in the history of the United States of America.
Did anyone watch the video documentary where Criminal , white supremacist Roger Stone told trump to just say you won. Trump is now tryingbto declare himself dictator, while disappearing brown ppl!!!! The republican party, maga, has become nothing but a racist natzi group!!
"Paid coons on stage…Paid coons on stage, everybody!"
How many times can we say 'dominion?'. Try 'hyoerbole.' Or 'superfluous.'
At least the Confederates did it the legal way
2020 WAS stolen.. its not a myth.. it happend… 80 million votes… and i personally recived THREE mail in ballots to an address i have lived at for over 7 years only ONE had my name on it i dont break laws so tore them up and trashed them but CLEARLY 20 million other ppl do not feel the same … NO FKN WAYYY it was a " FAIR " election
Can’t stand this narrator. Can’t watch anything he does in his corny whispery voice. Not interested in his specific POV
2020 WAS STOLEN J6 was a setup (COVID was a crime against humanity) deep state Leftist SCUM are tresonists
😂 Trump is your president again. bye bye PBS
6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. –HOLY BIBLE
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, —HOLY BIBLE
9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; –HOLY BIBLE
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; —HOLY BIBLE
This is how they got their hands on the tabulators for 2024
I never realized how many uneducated people there are in the US. It’s actually quite astonishing and scary at the same time..😳😬
This one is not aging too well.
At least there are people who stand by the truth just, They tried to overturn the election. But God is greater than human being, no matter what, His will must be done.
Leftist propaganda. The reason you lost you money.
Never seen Flynn and Pat the berg ever get on stage and say they were wrong. It’s so retarded to believe that sore loser Trump.
The only stolen election ws in 2024. Im amazed how gullible snow â„ are 😂😂😅. Go get a hobby, he set it up from the beginning saying elections were compromised, in case he lost…but he won. so he quieted. Repeat he loses n the seeds alrdy bn planted. They hv done a psychological game on people with obvious pliable brains..😆 Its amusing 2 see the depth of belief and now n old 🊠guy is destroying our country . Weak minds nd to follow at least chose one thats not a perv. con artist, greedy, no morals, criminal. Whens that comet due? 😅😂
Why would a Democrat need to host this documentary? Ill listen to a Republican but not a wispering Democrat
Out of all of this I just want to know why you are whispering.? Are you hiding something?
Dude I hope you go to jail for this mess !
Violence in the streets? You didn't happen to see the Antifa, BLM, or more recent, LA riots?
This is why Trump wants to cut PBS he can’t take facts
Gross
23:55…Its pathetic seeing African Americans cheering in Georgia when they are still despised and reviled especially in the DEEP SOUTH 😢
America is in decline and most of you fools don't understand it started with the NEGATIVE ECONOMICS INTELLECTUAL war mongering Ronald Reagan.History will prove me right that this is a prolonged cancerous meltdown
Chris Jericho wife was there
Biden is to me what JFK was to my grandfather