Trump aide asked DoJ to investigate bizarre ‘Italygate’ claim votes were changed by satellite

Conspiracy theory says people in Italy used military satellites to make US voting machines switch votes for Biden

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Donald Trump’s final White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, pressured the acting attorney general to help push the lie of electoral fraud in Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden – even asking him to investigate a conspiracy theory which said people in Italy used military satellites to make US voting machines switch votes for Biden.

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