Ref: A request to halt the transfer of power to Donald Trump due to
electoral manipulation and gerrymandering in key states
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Dear friends,
Morning greetings.
Herewith forward information about halting the transfer of the presidency
to Donald Trump, received from Dr. Paul Kimmel,
a distinguished social-psychologist, magnificent former teacher and
reliable source that I trust will interest you.
Best regards
Azril

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Friends,

Here are the players and their organizations with many of the dots
connected.  Only missing Rand and the Hoover Institute.

Paul

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-report-prompts-call-
for-democrats-to-halt-transfer_us_5833faa1e4b0d28e552154be

New Report Prompts Call for Democrats to Halt Transfer of Power to Trump
Before Dec. 13 Deadline

The Strategic Institute for Intersectional Policy (SIIP)
<http://strategycampsite.org/> has called for an immediate halt to all
efforts related to the transfer of power between the Obama Administration
and the Trump Campaign. This call came after a recent analysis revealed
that there is strong evidence to suggest that Donald Trump and the members
of his campaign intentionally engaged in voter suppression tactics in an
attempt to alter the results of the 2016 Presidential Election. Further,
the strategic deployment of voter suppression tactics was designed, refined
and implemented over the course of a number of years by a network of
organizations and individuals attempting to secure power for the alt-right.

This alt-right network has pushed the envelope of political legality since
Watergate and the Reagan Administration. It is comprised of white
nationalists that have worked strategically to infiltrate local and state
governments, members of the Republican party, alt-right media strategists;
conservative policy think tanks and generous donors.

All their activity, though, can be traced back to the efforts of five
people: *Bert Rein, Richard Wiley, the Koch Brothers, and Robert Mercer. *

*Bert Rein* and *Richard Wiley* have been key political players since the
Nixon Administration. Rein
<https://www.washingtonian.com/2013/06/25/meet-the-lawyer-involved-in-both-of-this-weeks-big-race-based-supreme-court-cases/>
was a member of the Key Issues Committee during the 1968 Nixon campaign and
served as the Assistant Deputy Secretary of State under his administration.
Wiley
<https://www.dcbar.org/bar-resources/publications/washington-lawyer/articles/september-2012-legends-in-the-law.cfm>
also held a position in the Nixon campaign and would go on to become the
administration’s Chairman of the FCC. In the 1980’s, Wiley and Rein teamed
up with another former colleague from the Nixon Era, Fred Fielding.
Fielding was the Associate Counsel to Nixon and was the deputy to John
Dean, who served time for his part in the Watergate Scandal. Dean was
convicted and served time for his part in Watergate. Together they formed
the firm Wiley, Rein and Fielding. After parting from Wiley and Rein,
Fielding would go on to represent Blackwater Worldwide. Wiley Rein
<http://www.wileyrein.com/> remains an important part of the conservative
landscape.

Wiley and Rein also became prominent figures in the Reagan Administration.
Rein worked as part of Reagan’s presidential transition team and Wiley
teamed up with conservative billionaire *Robert Mercer* to form *the
Heritage Foundation*. The Heritage Foundation
<http://www.heritage.org/about> describes itself as a conservative
think-tank “whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public
policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government,
individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national
defense.” The Heritage Foundation was a dominant figure
<http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2004/06/reagan-and-heritage-a-unique-partnership>
in directing President Reagan’s transition team as well as in formulating
the Administration’s policy.

Ed Meese, John Bolton, Paul Manafort and Jeff Sessions are all key figures
in the Trump campaign that originally made a name for themselves, whether
for the good or the bad, during the Reagan Administration.

Ed Meese <http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/m/edwin-meese>, an early
critic of Trump who recently joined
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/meese-trump-transition-228694> the
transition team and was also part of the Reagan transition team with Bert
Rein, joined the Heritage Foundation in 1988 as the organizations first
Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow. Meese was, and is, an important liaison
for the evangelical community, chaired the Just Say No program, and is
staunchly anti-immigrant. Counseled Reagan during the Iran-Contra
<http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?irancontraaffair_key_figures=irancontraaffair_edwin_meese&timeline=irancontraaffair>
affair and would eventually have to resign his position in the
Administration as a result of the Wedtech
<http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/29/books/the-looting-of-wedtech.html?pagewanted=all>
scandal.

*John Bolton* and Ed Meese worked together
<https://www.thenation.com/article/irancontra-20-years-later-and-what-it-means/>
directly on what would come to be known as the Iran-Contra scandal. Then a
“controversial UN ambassador,” Bolton has gone on to serve in a number of
federal positions including Assistant Attorney General under Ronald Reagan.
Bolton was a protégé of Jesse Helms
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1995/05/what-you-need-know-about-jesse-helms>,
actively calls for military interference in Iran, supports the War on
Drugs, is anti-UN, and was an active promoter of the false WMD narrative
for Iraq and similar accusations made about Cuba. He was the Vice President
of the American Enterprise Institute <https://www.aei.org/>, the
organization founded by Bert Rein with funding from Charles and David Koch
and that is responsible for the gutting of the Voting Right Act in 2013 and
has been chosen to serve as the Secretary of State should Trump be allowed
to assume the presidency.

*Paul Manafort*, Trump’s former campaign manager, is another alumni of the
Reagan Administration. Manafort is a campaign strategist that designs
campaigns both nationally and internationally. In the US, he has worked on
the Ford, Reagan and Bush campaigns. Internationally, he has been linked to
the campaigns of Ferdinand Marcos
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952>
of the Philippines, Jonas Savimbi
<http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/african-history-biographies/jonas-savimbi>
of the Angolan rebel group UNITA, admitted to writing the strategy for
the Karachi
Affair
<http://tribune.com.pk/story/586058/former-republican-campaigner-admits-role-in-frances-karachi-affair/>
and served as an advisor on the campaign of pro-Russian Ukrainian
presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11692593/Vladimir-Putin-saved-my-life-says-ousted-Ukrainian-president-Viktor-Yanukovych.html>.
Manafort worked closely with the Heritage Foundation and the American
Enterprise Institute to support
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/paul_manafort_isn_t_a_gop_retread_he_s_made_a_career_of_reinventing_tyrants.html>
Savimbi and met Trump through his partnership at Black, Manafort, Stone and
Kelley - where Trump was a client
<http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-paul-manafort-trump-0612-20160612-story.html>.
Manafort also has an apartment in Trump Tower. He became Trump’s lead
strategist in March 2016 after the departure of Americans for Prosperity’s
(Koch) Corey Lewandowski. He is credited with helping Trump destroy decades
of potentially damaging documents and emails and is currently under FBI
investigation
<http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-making-inquiry-ex-trump-campaign-manager-s-foreign-ties-n675881>
for his ties to foreign nations.

*Newt Gingrich* is also prominent figure from the Reagan Era with close
ties to the Trump campaign. On the short list to be one of Trump’s running
mates, the former Congressman from Georgia’s 6th District designed Reagan’s
“Open Society” platform for Reagan’s 1984 Presidential Campaign. He would
go on to write 1994’s Contract with America
<http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2052.html> and praise
<http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/10/28/newt-gingrich-trumps-historic-contract-with-american-voter.html>
Trump’s 2016 Contract with the American Voter
<https://www.donaldjtrump.com/contract/>, which was noticeably similar.
During his time in Congress, Gingrich practiced and refined his strategies
to remove his Democratic colleagues from office. He was able to
successfully unseat the Democratic Speaker of the House, Jim Wright. He led
the Republicans to the first house majority since before the Civil Rights
era. Gingrich became Speaker of the House, led two government shut downs,
initiated the efforts to impeach Bill Clinton and was named 1995 Time
Magazine’s Man of the Year. He unsuccessfully launched a presidential
campaign in 2012, but has continued to influence federal elections through
the Trump campaign.

Finally, *Jeff Sessions* rounds out Trump’s team of Reagan Administration
veterans. Sessions is the Senator for Alabama, the same state that launched
the Shelby County vs Holder case that resulted in the gutting of the Voting
Rights Act in 2013, and has been ranked
<http://www.teapartyexpress.org/7964/jeff-sessions-to-continue-conservative-fiscal-fight>
as the US’s fifth most conservative senator. Sessions was originally
nominated by the Reagan administration to serve on the United States
District Court of Alabama; however, his nomination was not confirmed.
Reagan then submitted his nomination for United States Attorney of Southern
Alabama. Sessions was confirmed and held this position for twelve years. He
earned the title of “amnesty’s worst enemy”
<http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384665/amnestys-worst-enemy-eliana-johnson>
by rejecting virtually every path to citizenship that has come across his
desk. He has fought to restrict
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/11/09/sen-jeff-sessions-is-known-for-fighting-immigration-now-he-could-lead-trumps-pentagon/>
legal as well as illegal immigration as well. Sessions
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/18/10-things-to-know-about-sen-jeff-sessions-donald-trumps-pick-for-attorney-general/>
is a climate change skeptic, anti-marijuana, anti LGBTQ rights, and voted
against the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act. He has advised Trump on all
his major policy platforms thus far and has been chosen to serve under his
as the Attorney General should he be allowed to occupy the White House.

In addition to these strategists, two organizations associated with the
Trump campaign would also emerge an assert their positions as far right
political powerhouses. As described, the *Heritage Foundation* formed
by *Robert
Mercer, Ed Meese and Richard Wiley *functioned to influence policy from
within the political system. *Robert Mercer, Charles Koch and David Koch*
would also combine forces to form a grassroots education and advocacy group
that could apply political pressure from the outside called Citizens United
<http://www.citizensunited.org/>. Citizens United would also produce
another strategist for the Trump Campaign – *David Bossie*.

The far-right continued testing the boundaries of political behavior
through the 1990s as the election of Democrat Bill Clinton put the
Republicans on the defensive. Attack campaigns increased in prevalence and
pundits that engaged in political attacks also increased their value in
both the public eye and within the Republican party. Legal attacks against
Democrats such as the Clintons also because a widely-used tactic to advance
the right-wing agenda. Among those that gained prominence for their methods
of attack were *Kellyanne Fitzpatrick (Conway), George T. Conway III, Matt
Drudge and Andrew Breitbart*.

*KellyAnne Conway*, formerly KellyAnne Fitzpatrick, began her political
career working in polling for the GOP’s Wirthlin Group. She gained a name
for herself as a far-right television pundit along with other right wing
colleagues such as Anne Coulter and Laura Ingraham. While engaged in this
work, she caught the eye of *George T. Conway III*. Conway was a lawyer
that had been involved in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case against
Bill Clinton. He was also part of the efforts to impeach him. It is said
that the same month that George Conway fed *Matt Drudge* the information
that allowed him to break the Monica Lewinski Story, he saw Fitzpatrick on
the cover of a magazine and asked a mutual friend to set them up. They met
a year later, married in 2001 and had four children.

Kellyanne went on to start her own polling group, The Polling Company
Inc./Woman Trend and boasts a list of clients that includes the NRA,
Freedomworks, Americans for Prosperity, The Heritage Foundation, Newt
Gingrich and Mike Pence. Kellyanne Conway also served as the spokesperson
for *Robert Mercer*. In the 1990’s, though, Kellyanne was part of a nework
of political organizations, people, pundits and news outlets that
specialized in attacking the Clintons.

One of the most prominent members of this network was *Matt Drudge*,
creator of the Drudge Report. The Drudge Report gained notoriety in 1996
when it broke the news that Jack Kemp was chosen to be Bob Dole’s running
mate in the presidential election. In addition to breaking this story and
the Lewinski scandal, he is also credited with breaking a number of widely
publicized, disparaging stories against leading Democrats. Drudge has
consistently served as an important link between political insiders and
their alt-right constituency. In the 1990’s, though, that he took on a
protégé that would eventually join this network with his own alt-right
media network - *Andrew Breitbart. *

Breitbart worked as an editor for Drudge until he left amicably to
start *Breitbart
News Network* with *Larry Solov* in 2007. Breitbart.com
<http://breitbart.com> had just began making its presence known when
Breitbart himself died of a massive heart attack in 2012. He would be
replaced at the network by Trump’s current Chief Strategist, *Stephen
Bannon*.

In the 1990s, Bannon was running a boutique investment bank that
specialized in media production. Bannon and Co. would eventually be sold
but Bannon would remain focused on the media. He moved to Hollywood and
began producing films such as *Occupy Unmasked*, *The Undefeated *(a film
about Sarah Palin), and a documentary about Ronald Reagan entitled *In the
Face of Evil. *It was during the making of this film that he met Andrew
Brietbart.

The two developed a strong working relationship and Bannon became a member
of the board at Breitbart in 2007. When he became the executive chair,
Bannon reshaped Breitbart and turned it to a media home and safe space for
members of the alt-right. In 2016, the website Breitbart.com
<http://breitbart.com> declared itself “the platform for the alt-right” and
in August of that same year, Bannon brought that platform to the race for
the White House when he became the chief executive for the Donald Trump
campaign.

The alt-right political network, though, had been preparing for the 2016
election since long before Bannon joined the team. The Heritage Foundation,
the American Enterprise Institute and Citizen’s United all continued to
gather influence in the political field. Charles and David Koch’s
organization Citizens for a Sound Economy split into two groups in 2004.
One group, the Americans for Prosperity, would become the protest and media
arm of the alt-right’s political movement. The other arm, Freedomworks,
would serve as the ground team for state and local elections and a
political lifeline for the Tea Party.

In 2005, the *Koch Brothers* teamed up again with *Bert Rein* and American
Enterprise Institute’s Ed Blum
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/us/edward-blum-and-the-project-on-fair-representation-head-to-the-supreme-court-to-fight-race-based-laws.html>
to found the Project on Fair Representation
<https://www.projectonfairrepresentation.org/>. The mission of this
organization is to “is to facilitate pro bono legal representation to
political subdivisions and individuals that wish to challenge government
distinctions and preferences made on the basis of race and ethnicity.”
Their primary target was the Voting Rights Act of 1965
<https://www.justice.gov/crt/history-federal-voting-rights-laws>.
Specifically, the Project on Fair Representation sought to remove the
provision that required certain jurisdictions to gain approval of the
federal government before making changes in their voting policies. The
removal of this restriction would allow states to make adjustments to their
voting policies that directly benefitted the Republican party and the
alt-right agenda.

In 2011, the Charles and David Koch founded Freedom Partners
<http://freedompartners.org/> in order to funnel grant money into activist
organizations and ground level political actions. In 2013, the alt-right
network was successful in their efforts to gut the Voting Rights Act when
they won the case of *Shelby County vs Holden (2013). *In related practical
efforts, *Citizens United* and *Americans for Prosperity* were taken to
court for accusations of voter suppression efforts in states such as
Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Michigan. Using
characteristically aggressive tactics, including the strategic suppression
of minority voters, the alt-right network was able to make dramatic waves
in the 2010 and 2014 elections - and the Republican party was able to take
control of Congress.

The Alt-right’s checklist to take control of the federal government without
the use of military force was as follows:

- Infiltrate Congress – Achieved 2010

- Eliminate Funding Restrictions – Achieved 2010

- Take Control of the RNC – Achieved in 2011

- Kill Voting Protections – Achieved in 2013

- Take Control of Congress – Achieved in 2014

- Take Control of the Supreme Court – Achieved if 1) Obama administration
doesn’t successfully counter efforts to delay appointment and 2) if the
Republican candidate secures the Presidency

- Take Control of the Presidency – Goal:2016

By 2016, all that was left for the alt-right to achieve a full takeover of
the government of the United States - without firing one shot - was gaining
control of the Presidency.

In efforts to alter the course of the 2016 Presidential Election, the
alt-right experimented with a number of candidates. The two most notable of
these being Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. While the two candidates were
competitors in the Republican presidential primaries, they were both being
funded and directed by key players from the alt-right.

*Ted Cruz’s* dominant SuperPAC was Keep the Promise 1. This SuperPAC was
funded by *Robert Mercer* and headed by *KellyAnne Conway*. Donald Trump’s
campaign was a project of *Charles Koch* and *David Koch*.

Trumps original core
<https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign_key_staff_and_advisors,_2016>
group of handlers for the campaign included *Roger Stone* (of Black,
Manafort, Stone and Kelly), *Corey Lewandowski* (of Americans for
Prosperity), and *Alan Cobb *(a government affairs executive for Koch).
Early supporters of Trump also included *Jeff Sessions, Stephen Bannon,*
and *Rudy Giuliani. *It was Jeff Sessions that submitted Trumps name as the
GOP presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention. In March of
2016, *Paul Manafort* formally joined the campaign. And after Ted Cruz was
pulled out of the campaign, all resources shifted to Trump.

The Keep the Promise 1 SuperPAC was rebranded as *Defeat Crooked Hillary*
by Citizen’s United’s *David Bossie*. *Kellyanne Conway* was moved from the
Cruz campaign to the Trump campaign. The media campaign in support of Trump
and attacking Clinton was re-launched by *Stephen Bannon* and *Jared
Kushner*, Trump’s son in law and the director of Project Alamo
<http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Trump-s-digital-ad-exec-based-in-San-Antonio-10616777.php>
and the campaign acquired the open support of *Reince Priebus* and *Mike
Pence*.

With full funding, a strategic team that spans from Nixon to Conway, a
fully functioning alt-right media network, the social and tactical support
of the Tea Party and the reluctant backing of the Republican party, the
alt-right engaged in a full-scale attack for control of the White House.
This attack included timely interference from the FBI director James Comey
and Wikileaks, potential interference from Russian intelligence
organizations, and widespread efforts to suppress the votes of target
Democrats and people of color in key locations. These locations included
states that Trump was able to turn from Red to Blue.

Without the suppression efforts that were reported in pivotal swing states,
it is unlikely that Trump would have been able to secure the votes needed
to win Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida and
Arizona. Without these votes, he and the alt-right would not have been able
to win the 2016 presidential election. Without suppressing people of
color’s Constitutional right to vote, the alt-right would not have been
able to execute their strategy to take full control of the federal
government.

In light of the information tying the Trump campaign to voting suppression
tactics nationally and specifically in key swing states, and with
consideration for the Safe Harbor deadline of December 13th - the Strategic
Institute of Intersectional Policy is calling for an immediate cessation to
all activities related to the transfer of power to the Republican Party.
This call includes firm requests for President Obama, Hillary Clinton,
Lorretta Lynch, and the Democratic members of Congress to exercise their
full authority to stop the transfer of power; investigate the states,
organizations and people involved in the strategic design and
implementation of voter suppression efforts, and postpone the electoral
college accordingly.

The Strategic Institute of Intersectional Policy is also calling for a
*Suppression
Extension* to be mobilized in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan,
Pennsylvania, Florida and Arizona. This extension would be granted to those
that were prevented from exercising their Constitutional right to vote as a
result of voter suppression efforts engaged in by the government and by
private organizations and individuals. These states would then be allowed
to add these votes to those already counted in the election. In this way,
the voices of all those that are Constitutionally granted the right to vote
are able to do so to choose the next president of the United States.

This effort needs your support. Please go to the Strategic Institute for
Intersectional Policy’s website for more information:
http://strategycampsite.org/strategy-to-stop-trump.html

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