Per Seth Abramson's deep research, Joe Oltmann figures prominently in the lead-up to the January 6 storming of the Capitol, primarily as the author and promulgator of the Dominion Voting Systems conspiracy AKA The Big Lie.
"The Big Lie" ricocheted through willing conservative media outlets and made its way to the Trump campaign as the basis for its claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Eric Coomer vs Defendants Joseph Oltmann, Michelle Malkin, James “Jim” Hoft, Eric Metaxas, OAN, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, Rudolph Giuliani, and the Trump Campaign
"Joe Oltmann has built a sprawling political network in Colorado marked by false 2020 election claims and suggestions that opponents be hanged.
NYTimes, June 22, 2022.
Seth Abramson is an American professor, attorney, author, and political columnist. During the Trump administration, Seth was a regular contributor to CNN and the BBC.
In January 2021, Seth founded Proof, a 14-section media outlet on Substack that became the top-ranked Culture substack within its first 120 days of operation and is now ranked in the Top 15 of the Politics section.
In a continuing series, Seth Abramson dissected Jan 6 from the perspective that Donald Trump led a vast seditious conspiracy to violently overturn the 2020 election.
Per Abramson's deep research, Joe Oltmann figures prominently in the lead-up to the January 6 storming of the Capitol, primarily as the author and promulgator of the Dominion Voting Systems conspiracy. Abramson also provides direct evidence of Oltmann's presence at the Trump Willard Hotel war-room, with Rudy Giuliani and other indicated conspiracists.
Seth Abramson offer documented research on Joe Oltmann's January 6 role, in a series of investigative articles published in Proof.
Proof, copyright. Seth Abramson, June 6, 2021 (Synopsis, see PDF below for full content)
"As this publication has exclusively and exhaustively detailed, on the eve of the January 6 insurrection Team Trump convened a 23-person war council at Trump International Hotel in D.C. to plot out—as attendees have since confessed—what would happen the following day. It is now clear that a second, contemporaneous pre-insurrection war council was held at a nearby Washington hotel and that it may well have been linked, through either phone or video conferencing, to the first.
This previously unreported news could significantly swell the size of Donald Trump’s pre-insurrection planning team, even as it remains possible (indeed, a possibility that has been extensively investigated here at Proof) that any remote conferencing that occurred the night before the January 6 insurrection also included the White House.
On May 5, 2021, in a little-heard interview with self-described “birther” Peter Boyles, John Eastman confesses to Boyles that in the days prior to and including the attack on the Capitol, he, Giuliani, and unnamed others “had a war room at the Willard Hotel [in Washington] kind of coordinating all of the communications.…[it was in] a suite of offices.” Significant in this, of course, is not only Eastman’s description of the space as a “war room,” but his contention that Giuliani used the room in the days prior to the insurrection. Why does this matter? Because it raises new questions about another pre-insurrection war room: the one at Trump International."
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Proof . copyright Seth Abramson June 13, 2021 (Synopsis, see PDF below for full content)
"Thanks to an incredibly sharp Proof reader, Proof can now identify a fifth member of Donald Trump’s January 6 “war room” inside the Willard InterContinental Hotel DC. Proof can now add to these prior reports that there is overwhelming evidence of a fifth entrant to Trump’s “communications” center—as it has been described by Eastman—specifically far-right conspiracy theorist Joe Oltmann (pictured atop this article).
An April 20, 2021 interview of Oltmann by far-right conspiracy theorist, attorney, and New Mexico State University professor David Clement—caught by the eagle eye of a Proof reader—led to the discovery and confirmation of Oltmann’s presence in Trump’s war room in the Willard Hotel, but also, as importantly, a series of critical and even harrowing revelations about what Team Trump was doing during the insurrection.
Revelations From the The Oltmann-Clement Interview: (1) Oltmann is a fake antifa activist; (2) Before January 6, Oltmann was in contact with influential figures in Washington; (3) Oltmann was a Stop the Steal associate who joined a Stop the Steal event in DC.; (4) On Insurrection Day, Joe Oltmann was deep inside Donald Trump’s inner circle; (5) By midday on Insurrection Day, Oltmann’s access had ascended to a new level; (6) In the evening of January 6, Oltmann returned to the Willard and Rudy Giuliani; (7) The security breach Giuliani orchestrated got much worse as January 6 wore on. "
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Proof. copyright Seth Abramson, June 17, 2021 (Synopsis, see PDF below for full content)
"From Eric Trump to the State Department, paramilitaries to pro-Trump rappers, Trump lawyers to Stop the Steal, this portrait of the ties of an invitee to an Insurrection Week "war room" is telling.
On March 13, 2020, a man named Joe Otto took to his podcast, Conservative Daily, to call COVID-19 a “fake story” and assure his listeners that the “real pandemic” was the “mental midget-ness” of a society that—he said—celebrates the idea that “everyone is a victim.”
Joe Otto—real name Joe Oltmann—has now spent the last year identifying himself as the victim of everyone from local Colorado politicians to “antifa journalists”, from mask mandates to the author of Proof, who Oltmann (communicating under his real name) has accused of lying about him in this Proof article, thereafter threatening to “sue [me]…out of existence.”
Sidebar: A Personal Note
When Proof gave Oltmann a chance to offer corrections, he said it was a “lie” to call Rudy Giuliani’s suite of offices at the Willard Hotel in DC a “war room”, though it was described as such by Oltmann associate and Trump lawyer John Eastman, who appears alongside Oltmann in the war room photo."
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Proof. copyright Seth Abramson, Feb 22, 2022 (Synopsis, see PDF below for full content)
"Just days ago, on an episode of Conservative Daily Podcast titled “GOPers Covering Up Election Fraud”, insurrectionist Colorado militiaman Joe Oltmann—whose presence in Donald Trump’s Insurrection Eve “command center” at the Willard Hotel in Washington was extensively covered by Proof here and here—lit into his one-time insurrectionist compatriot Patrick Byrne over a statement Byrne made about him.
In the relevant podcast segment, which begins with sixteen minutes remaining in the hour-plus recording linked to above—the very moment that Oltmann receives, live on-air, a message from someone alerting him to Byrne’s February 3 videotaped statement, which accuses Oltmann of regularly discussing a coming Second Civil War in private—Oltmann goes on a long rant about Byrne that has significant repercussions for the future of the United States.
And yet, this is only one of several transformative pieces of evidence that Proof reveals in the article below, as it turns out Oltmann’s response to Byrne is a falling domino that has caused others to topple—launching a new front in the January 6 investigation."
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by Seth Abramson, Published in Proof
Copyright Axios by John Frank October 15, 2021
"A far-right activist who hosted a podcast went public with a fantastical claim just weeks ahead of the 2020 election.
Driving the news: Colorado’s Joe Oltmann says he listened to a phone call hosted by left-wing "antifa" activists in September 2020. On the call, Oltmann purports that security director Eric Coomer of Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems said he could fix the vote to guarantee President Trump's re-election defeat.
The claim — denied by Coomer and backed by no evidence — ricocheted through willing conservative media outlets and made its way to the Trump campaign as the basis for its claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Why it matters: The origins of "The "Big Lie" — and the role of the obscure Colorado activist — became apparent in thousands of pages of documents and two days of hearings that concluded Thursday in Denver District Court. The Trump campaign, its former attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, Oltmann and other conservative allies asked a judge to dismiss the defamation lawsuit filed by Coomer. Security was high at the legal hearings with officers posted inside and outside the courtroom.
What's more: The court filings also make clear the Trump campaign determined the allegations against Dominion and other claims of vote-rigging were false — even before Trump, his lawyers and supporters used them to undermine the victory of Joe Biden.
The other side: Oltmann's attorney argued in court that it didn't matter if Coomer was on the call, but whether it was made with a reckless disregard for the truth. An attorney for Giuliani claimed the former New York mayor was just repeating what was in the news from Oltmann and spread by conservative Colorado commentator Michelle Malkin.
The intrigue: Trump's allies are attempting to use a 2019 Colorado law authored by Democrats to toss the case early in the legal proceedings. The anti-SLAPP law is designed to protect free speech and ward off lawsuits from corporations and others meant to silence critics.
What's next: The legal teams will make additional arguments in briefs in the next 60 days, the Colorado Sun reports, before the judge makes her ruling on the request to dismiss the case."
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copyright, New York Times Magazine, August 21. 2021 Updated June 15, 2023 (Synopsis)
Eric Coomer had an election-security job at Dominion Voting Systems. He also had posted anti-Trump messages on Facebook. What happened next ruined his life.
It was already late on Nov. 9 when Eric Coomer, then the director of product strategy and security for Dominion Voting Systems, left his temporary office on Daley Plaza in Chicago and headed back to the hotel where he’d been staying for the previous few weeks. Both the plaza and the hotel had the eerie post-apocalyptic feel of urban life during the pandemic, compounding the sense of disorientation and apprehension he felt as he made his way up to his room.
Earlier that evening, a colleague sent him a link to a video of Coomer speaking at a conference with a menacing comment below it. “Hi Eric! We know what you did,” the commenter wrote. That link eventually led Coomer to a second video, which he watched in his hotel room. What he saw, he quickly realized, was something that was likely to wreck his life, hurt his employer and possibly erode trust in the electoral process.
Over the past decade, Coomer, 51, has helped make Dominion one of the largest providers of voting machines and software in the United States. He was a gifted programmer, known to be serious about his work but informal about almost everything else — prone to profanities, with a sense of humor that could have blunt force. Coomer, who traveled around the world for competitive endurance bike races, would have blended in on the campus of Google, just one in a crowd of nonconformist tech types. In the more corporate business of elections, he stood out for the full-sleeve tattoos on his arms (one of Francis Bacon’s “Screaming Popes,” some Picasso bulls) and the half-inch holes in his ears where he once wore what are known as plugs.
Coomer was accustomed to working long days during the postelection certification process, but the stress that November was building quickly. Donald Trump was demanding recounts. The president’s allies in the Stop the Steal movement had spent months stoking fears of election fraud. And then on Sunday, Nov. 8, Sidney Powell, a lawyer representing the Trump campaign, appeared on Fox News and claimed, without evidence, that Dominion had an algorithm that switched votes from Trump to Biden.
The video Coomer watched in his hotel room represented a new development in Dominion’s troubles. It was that day’s episode of “The Conservative Daily Podcast,” a program previously unknown to Coomer, which had been posted to YouTube. “We’re going to expose someone inside of Dominion Voting Systems, specifically related to antifa, and related to someone that is so far left, and is controlling elections and his fingerprints are in every state,” said the show’s co-host, a man using the pseudonym Joe Otto. Otto — who would eventually reveal himself to be Joe Oltmann, a Colorado entrepreneur — claimed that he had found a smoking gun that proved fraud at Dominion: “We 100 percent know that the election was rigged.”
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CTR's Summary of Oltmann's Newsmaking Exploits as a Conspiracist and Militant
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Copyright. Colorado Times Recorder by Heidi Beedle. May 13, 2022 (Synopsis)
Denver District Court Judge Marie Moses has denied anti-SLAPP motions filed by defendants in the defamation case brought Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer.
Defendants Joseph Oltmann, along with his entities FEC United and Shuffling Madness Media, ultra-conservative pundit Michelle Malkin, James “Jim” Hoft of The Gateway Pundit, podcaster Eric Metaxas, One American News Network (OAN) and Chanel Rion, Sidney Powell and her organization Defending the Republic, Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, and the Trump Campaign sought to dismiss Coomer’s lawsuit, claiming SLAPP provisions. Defendants will be able to appeal Moses’s ruling, which noted, “This Court FINDS that Plaintiff will be able to present the following credible evidence to a jury which would be sufficient to meet the clear and convincing evidentiary standard in support of his claims of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy and request for injunctive relief.”
Moses said of Oltmann’s claims, “The entire story appears, on its face, to be manufactured around Coomer’s Facebook posts, and deliberately crafted in a way to make it impossible to be verified by anyone attempting to investigate the veracity of Oltmann’s outlandish claims of Coomer’s involvement in the Antifa conference call.”
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copyright, Cololorado Times Recorder, May 2, 2022 by Heidi Beedle (Synopsis)
"Joe Oltmann, who’s a top election conspiracist in Colorado and nationally, is now a two-time defamation suit defendant. Journalist Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, of the online news magazine LGBTQ Nation, filed a lawsuit against Oltmann in Denver District Court on Friday.
The blistering, 15-page complaint accuses Oltmann, who’s twice been an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year nominee, of defamation for claiming on the April 21 episode of his podcast, Conservative Daily, that, “[Ashton-Cirillo] is actually a secret Nazi operative; [Ashton-Cirillo]’s presence in Ukraine is not as an author or columnist on assignment, but instead, to allegedly benefit her Nazi overseers; that she intentionally searched out, found, and reported a ‘journalist’ named Gonzolo Lira, to purported Nazis in the Ukrainian government, for the purpose of having him killed, apparently through a beheading; and that her actions, intentionally carried out, satisfied the criminal elements under American law for committing the offense of being an accessory to murder.”
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copyright, The Washington Post by Rosalind S. Helderman, June 22, 2022
"Joe Oltmann has built a sprawling political network in Colorado marked by false 2020 election claims and suggestions that opponents be hanged.
From a corporate office park in the Denver suburbs, podcaster Joe Oltmann spins a daily vision of America’s dark and violent future.
“Pretty soon we’ll have gallows being built all over the country. We can take care of all these traitors to our nation,” he told listeners during an episode late last year.
“Stretch that rope,” he intoned during another, suggesting that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) be hanged, before going on to explain that it was just a joke.
The violent rhetoric has contributed to such a tense political climate that Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) — a frequent target of Oltmann’s denunciations — now travels with a security detail, a first for the office she said.
Oltmann, a businessman who gained a national profile on the far right after he claimed he had personal knowledge that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, is hardly a fringe figure. He now leads an influential and growing political movement in Colorado that is shaking up the state Republican Party."
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copyright, Colorado Times Recorder by Chase Woodruff, Feb 12, 2022 (Synopsis)
"A who’s who of leading figures in Colorado’s far-right election denial movement gathered in Castle Rock on Thursday night for a lengthy town hall meeting that featured a host of baseless conspiracy theories and at least one threat of political violence.
The “emergency” meeting, organized by right-wing activist and FEC United founder Joe Oltmann, came two days after the arrest of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters for obstructing investigators’ attempts to seize an iPad under a search warrant.
Peters arrived at Friday’s event, held at The Rock Church, to a standing ovation from the assembled crowd. She said she was still dressed in the same clothes she wore when she turned herself in to be booked on misdemeanor charges of obstructing a peace officer and obstructing government operations at the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office earlier on Thursday."
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Copyright Colorado Times Recorder by Erik Maulbetsch, March 11, 2022 (Synopsis)
"Flanked by members of his militia, conspiracy theorist Joe Oltmann spoke at Tuesday’s “Free DougCo” rally, saying he’s not advocating for violence, but that if someone tries to take his country or his “way of life,” blood will be “spilled.”
Oltmann’s conservative advocacy group and militia, FEC United, posted on Facebook on March 5 that “They will be debating and voting to open Douglas County without restrictions.”
The group, which worked closely with Colorado Republican Party during the last election, also posted fliers claiming the event would be a celebration of the commissioners’ “landmark decision to fully re-open Douglas County.”
There was neither a vote nor a decision to reopen. As reported by the Parker Chronicle, Douglas County passed a resolution–essentially a letter to the governor–asking the state for a plan to fully reopen the county.
FEC United militia members attended the rally, ostensibly to provide security in the parking lot of the County Commissioner offices in Castle Rock at noon on a Tuesday.
Prefacing his remarks about violence with a teaser to the media–“this is for the news. you’re gonna like this”–Oltmann said the following:
“If somebody asks me, ‘Joe are you advocating for violence?’ I’m going to tell you, no. But if you want to take our country, it will have to be with violence. If you’re going to take our way of life away from us, you’re not going to do it without blood spilled.”
It doesn’t mean I advocate for violence, it just means I want the propaganda to stop. I want the things that they tell us that we should believe that we know are nonsense- it’s like bizarro world! And they want to act like we’re crazy!”
Oltmann did not respond to a Facebook message asking for clarification on the “propaganda” and “nonsense” he wants to stop, nor at what point, assuming it doesn’t stop to his liking, he will feel compelled to use violence.
The subject of the rally and of Oltmann’s speech, however, was that Colorado’s public health restrictions are intended not just to end the pandemic, but to exert control over people.
“The further we get into this,” Oltmann continued, “the less it becomes about the virus, the more it becomes about control, the more it becomes about ruling over you.”
He acknowledged losing friends to COVID, but says he’s lost more to suicide, saying, “You’ve heard it said, the cure cannot be worse than the disease.”
Other speakers included Greg Lopez, who is already running for the Republican nomination for Governor in 2022, and retired Castle Rock police commander John Anderson, who said he plans to run in an as-yet undisclosed election next year."
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Colorado NewsLine, Nov 5, 2021
by Quentin Young
Why is Douglas County such a hotbed of election lies and COVID denial?
Douglas County has long seemed intent on burnishing its reputation as a hotbed of conservative extremism.
COVID misinformation? In abundance. Election lies? No shortage. Critical race theory hysteria? Heaps.
But this week’s election firmly established the place as a swamp of political filth. A slate of four anti-mask, anti-equity candidates won election — and will assume a majority — in the Douglas County School Board races following debates that drew national attention and exemplified the contours, and absurdities, of community conflicts around the country.
But such shameful behavior tracks with larger trends in Douglas.
The county is a QAnon stronghold. As recounted last year by former Parker resident Aída Chávez in The Intercept about her former hometown, “Childhood friends and old high school acquaintances began plastering my timeline with posts referring to a satanic cabal of pedophile elites, including hysterical, unfounded claims about the proliferation of child sex trafficking and cultural or political efforts to ‘normalize’ pedophilia.
Nov 4, 2021
Highlight: "Colorado right-wing public figure show no sign of stopping their attacks against last year’s election results, both in Colorado and nationwide — even though claims that the 2020 election was rigged in favor of the Democrats have been debunked. In Colorado, only a handful of Republican public figures have spoken out against this rhetoric. According to CTR, these DougCo region figures have publicly said the presidential election was rigged:
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