Watchdog weareoversight: Texas Secretary of State Agreed to Meet 'Election Conspiracy Theorist' and Former Trump Ally Patrick Byrne, Text Messages Reveal
and Eric Trump, the one-term president’s son. Byrne went on to claim that state Sen. Angela Paxton, the attorney general’s wife, had passed on Scott’s contact information because she believed Byrne had information Scott ought to know.
At one point in that 45-minute video, Byrne claims that a “Marxist-Leninist regime change plot” was taking place in the U.S. He falsely claims that vaccinated people over 60 years old died of COVID-19 at higher rates than the unvaccinated. Citing a “rigged election,” he casts doubt on results in Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. “It’s quite likely I get arrested or killed,” he adds, apparently meaning that he would be killed for revealing the supposed secrets.
A voicemail to a phone number associated with Byrne and an email sent to his nonprofit group, The America Project, went unreturned. Matt Angle, founder of the Lone Star Project advocacy group, has been a vocal critic of Scott since his appointment last year.
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