'Never Trump' Lincoln Project appears to have helped spread Iranian disinformation
DNI Ratcliffe: We have "already seen spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest, and damage President Trump."
By Joseph Curl
Updated: October 23, 2020 - 12:01am
The Lincoln Project, a group of former Republicans who openly oppose President Trump, shared a message on social media that originated with an Iranian disinformation campaign seeking to influence the 2020 presidential election.
"The Proud Boys are attempting to scare voters away from the polls," read a tweet from the group. "This is punishable by up to a year in jail and a blatant attempt to prevent people from voting. Let's find them and make them famous." The tweet has since been deleted.
The post, which was retweeted more than 12,000 times, turned out to contain erroneous information.
"The intimidation the tweet describes did not actually come from The Proud Boys, a group that many in the mainstream media have said President Trump supports," disrrn.com reported. "Rather, Iranian operatives sent emails to Democratic voters in several states, and claimed to be part of the Proud Boys, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The messages claimed that the group is 'in possession of all your information' and says that the recipient 'will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you.'"
The Proud Boys are allegedly a white supremacist organization, but they deny that allegation, saying they formed to oppose the far-left Antifa, which Attorney General William Barr alleged has "instigated and carried out" acts of "domestic terrorism."
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