Day 8 of Coomer v. Lindell is underway in federal courtroom in Colorado. Eric Coomer, the previous Director of Product Technique and Safety is suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for defamation, amongst different issues, following the 2020 Presidential Election. The muse of the declare is an alleged cellphone name that was infiltrated by Joe Oltmann of the Untamed podcast wherein he alleges “Eric from Dominion” mentioned that “Trump received’t win. I made f’ing positive of it” in September 2020.
Following the 2020 election, after Dominion made headlines on account of a vote-flipping “human error, technical glitch,” Oltmann regarded into Dominion Voting and found Eric Coomer, whom he believed was “Eric from Dominion.” In the course of the trial, no proof was introduced that “Eric from Dominion” was on the decision, nevertheless, an affidavit emerged from one other case in Colorado state courtroom the place an Antifa name was held and most of the matters mentioned aligned with Oltmann’s contemporaneous notes.
You may learn earlier reporting on the trial right here, right here, right here, and right here.
Right now’s testimony was a video deposition of Dennis Montgomery, the elusive man behind the controversial and questionable Hammer & Scorecard claims that permeated the stolen election claims in late 2020/early 2021. Montgomery is reportedly the individual answerable for growing the software program.
Whereas no bodily proof was introduced to again up the claims, the sworn deposition was very regarding.
All testimony is summarized from detailed notes taken by Badlands Media reporter Ashe Epp who’s current within the courtroom.
That is completely based mostly on the testimony of Montgomery with no different assertions or implications apart from that these claims needs to be additional investigated given the claims made underneath oath.
The deposition video started with Coomer’s legal professional asking about Montgomery’s work at Intrepid Applied sciences, an organization he co-founded in 1998, and his work on election hacking software program for intrusion into overseas elections. When requested if Scorecard was designed to bypass a firewall, Montgomery mentioned that it was ‘one in every of many names for it’ and that Scorecard did what wanted to be carried out leaving no footprint, ‘prefer it by no means occurred.’
When requested about states that have been impacted by Scorecard in 2020, Montgomery mentioned the entire swing states have been, and extra, that Scorecard was in “each state.”
When requested how he knew that, Montgomery mentioned it was from the info however that he couldn’t focus on the sources and strategies by which he obtained the info. Montgomery acknowledged that he might need informed Lindell the election was hacked however doesn’t recall if he mentioned it was particularly by means of voting machines. Nevertheless, he did say that he informed Lindell that Dominion Voting machines have been hacked.
Montgomery testified that he was the one one that knew easy methods to use Scorecard as a result of he had CIA embedded in his constructing and met with them daily. Montgomery mentioned Scorecard was utilized in Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, and was first utilized in Brazil in 2004. When requested the way it was utilized in Brazil, Montgomery responded, “You’d must ask the CIA.”
When requested if it was used to maintain Hugo Chavez in energy in Venezuela, Montgomery mentioned sure, telling counsel that the CIA had informed him they used it and that he watched the hack occur. He claims it was staff of the U.S. authorities that did it.
Montgomery mentioned that Hammer & Scorecard are able to hacking 75% of election techniques in use right this moment, however that it had tried to hack all 3300 counties. Nevertheless, there’s a distinction between having the ability to entry them and manipulate them.
Lindell doesn’t have a duplicate of Scorecard, however Montgomery claimed he gave Lindell’s individuals all of Scorecard, particularly Conan Hayes and Jeff O’Donnell, however that Hayes might not have it as a result of they took his cellphone. Hayes was the person former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters entrusted with making a forensic picture of the Dominion system in her custody earlier than the Secretary of State’s workplace carried out a Trusted Construct, which might have erased election information that was to be statutorily preserved. O’Donnell was the programming skilled who wrote a number of reviews on his discoveries after analyzing these photos.
Montgomery mentioned that it wasn’t Dominion Voting Techniques machines particularly that rigged the election and that they’d do not know if it was, however that they need to have had a software program alert. He additionally testified that he might have informed Lindell it was Dominion that was answerable for rigging the election.
Whereas the testimony of Montgomery in his deposition is extraordinarily regarding and needs to be absolutely investigated, there are credibility issues that come up from earlier claims made, particularly relating to the August 2021 Cyber Symposium and the info that by no means was delivered as promised.
Plaintiffs name Dennis Montgomery.
Coomer Legal professional: While you have been at intrepid, you have been working on this election hacking software program?
Montgomery: Sure for overseas elections. Handled varied elements of laptop intrusions.
Coomer Legal professional: what’s a pc intrusion?…
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