West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner insisted once again on his claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election during a debate for West Virginia gubernatorial candidates last week, stating directly, “The election was stolen, and it was stolen by the CIA.”
Warner, a supporter of Donald Trump, provided two pieces of evidence to support his latest allegation.
Firstly, Warner cited Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Meta (formerly Facebook). Zuckerberg contributed $400 million towards grants to assist organizations in conducting the 2020 election during the COVID-19 pandemic. He perceives this financial support as unethical and claims it tipped the election’s scales.
Another piece of evidence that Warner offered is the testimony provided by Mike Morrell, former Deputy Director of the CIA. Warner notes that Morrell had acknowledged a conversation between Antony Blinken and the House Judiciary Committee. The conversation related to a controversial laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden. This occurred days before intelligence officials suggested it was Russian disinformation.
MSNBC lamented: “Yes, the man responsible for overseeing West Virginia’s system of elections argued, in apparent seriousness, that the Central Intelligence Agency secretly rigged the United States’ 2020 presidential election.”
The Secretary of State also marked the CIA and FBI, not Russia or Iran, as a major concern during his campaign. He said in a June campaign stop, “It’s our own CIA and FBI, that’s very hard for me to say, but that’s what they did in 2020—they lied to the American people.”