The Steal That Never Happened (w/ Mark Bowden & Matthew Teague)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We are just days away from the one year anniversary of Jan. 6th, that now infamous dark day in the history of the US where our own people attack the US Capitol in order to stop the certification of Joe Biden as the next President. Leading up to that day, a vast amount of wild and ridiculous conspiracies about how the election was stolen and rigged, were spreading quickly without an ounce of evidence to support them. "Stop the Steal" had become the new catchphrase of Trump's supporters, serving as a spring board and call to action by those who had been convinced it was true. How far did it go? Where did those supporters take action? We all witnessed Jan. 6th on our televisions, but what most of us didn't see was what happened on the local level, state by state, county by county. Authors of the book, The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It -- Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague, join us to discuss the lead up to Jan. 6th as well as some of the wildest claims and conspiracies that millions of people still believe to this day.
GUESTS:
- Mark Bowden (@MarkBowdenwrite), Journalist, author of The Finish, Black Hawk Down, Worm, Greatest Game ever Played
- Matthew Teague (@MatthewTeague), Nieman Fellow 2019; exec. producer of feature film Our Friend
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- Buy The Steal by Bowden/Teague - Here.
- Yahoo News story debunking urinal/election fraud conspiracy - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | Election morning, 2020, a urinal in an upstairs bathroom at Lanna's State |
| 0:07.0 | Farm Arena is backed up and starts to overflow, causing water to seep through |
| 0:12.2 | crevices in the floor, creating a brief pore down below where election workers |
| 0:17.7 | have just begun to set up to count the ballots for President of the United States. |
| 0:22.1 | The election workers suspend their work for a while, as the maintenance staff is |
| 0:27.2 | called to plug the urinal and stop up the mess. A routine mishap quickly |
| 0:31.7 | fixed. But it soon becomes the fodder for a grand conspiracy theory. When late |
| 0:37.2 | that night, ballots are put away in containers and then under orders from |
| 0:40.9 | Georgia's Secretary of State pulled back out and counted. Surely this was no |
| 0:45.5 | accident. Some Trump supporters argue, surely that flood early in the |
| 0:49.5 | morning was manufactured by Democrats to provide cover for Biden |
| 0:53.6 | partisans to stuff those containers with fake ballots, depriving Donald Trump of |
| 0:58.8 | his rightful victory. It was all complete nonsense that, along with other |
| 1:03.0 | bogus claims of fraud and theft about the 2020 election, is expertly debunked by |
| 1:08.4 | authors Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague in their new book called The Steel. As we |
| 1:13.4 | prepare to recall the horrific events one year ago this week on January 6th, |
| 1:17.5 | we'll talk to Bowden and Teague about the lies that led up to that day on this |
| 1:22.0 | episode of Skull Duggery. I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the |
| 1:30.6 | office of President of the United States. I will to the best of my building. |
| 1:34.8 | Reserve, protect and defend. Constitution of the United States. So help me God. |
| 1:40.5 | So help me God. So help me God. So help me God. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm Michael Isgoff, Chief Investigator correspondent for Yahoo News. I'm Dan |
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