Complaining about the Transition Integrity Project's Election Theft Plan Can Be Dangerous

by Chris Farrell
September 25, 2020 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16542/transition-integrity-project-nils-gilman

It seems that criticizing the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) and their plan to disrupt and steal the 2020 presidential election can be dangerous.
So -- the leadership of TIP has spoken. Now you know their thinking, their motives and their true objectives. It seems Nils Gilman wants Michael Anton executed.
The brutality and viciousness of Marxism and its adherents is on display. Those that may have held reservations or harbored some doubt on my analysis of what TIP really had in store for the election now have their answers.
If Gilman advocates executing someone by firing squad for daring to question TIP, what other penalties and extraordinary measures were discussed by the supposed bipartisan arbiters of the electoral process? How is this "normal?"
Are you disturbed by how your news information is "curated?"

Now we have the real, unvarnished thinking of Transition Integrity Project co-founder Nils Gilman. Gilman likes execution by firing squad. (Image source: iStock)

It seems that criticizing the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) and their plan to disrupt and steal the 2020 presidential election can be dangerous. Michael Anton, a former Trump administration official and now of the Claremont Institute, published an article titled, "The Coming Coup" that seems to have caught the attention of TIP co-founder Nils Gilman. According to the journalist Natalie Winters:

"Gilman, who serves as Vice President of Programs at the Chinese Communist Party-linked Berggruen Institute, took to Twitter to express his desire that Anton be executed in the same fashion as Robert Brasillach.

"Specifically, he insisted 'Michael Anton is the Robert Brasillach of our times and deserves the same fate.'"

I'll save you the effort of searching for Brasillach -- he was a French author and journalist who advocated for the fascists and was executed by firing squad in 1945. So -- the leadership of TIP has spoken. Now you know their thinking, their motives and their true objectives. It seems Gilman wants Anton executed.

Gilman's tweet is a refreshingly frank declaration. All the usual pretense and guile are set aside. No virtue signaling, no coded language, no projection, no dog whistles to the party faithful and the stenographers at WaPo, CNN, et al.

The brutality and viciousness of Marxism and its adherents is on display. Those that may have held reservations or harbored some doubt on my analysis of what TIP really had in store for the election now have their answers. I would rather have been wrong.

Oh, to have been "backstage" at the June "war games" of TIP! One can only guess at the fevered imaginings that had to be cooled and edited into the 22-page report. What sort of Bolshevik fantasies floated about the Zoom-connected strategy sessions? If Gilman advocates executing someone by firing squad for daring to question TIP, what other penalties and extraordinary measures were discussed by the supposed bipartisan arbiters of the electoral process?

How is this "normal?" Where is the 24/7 news media reporting on Gilman's conduct? Go ahead and do a news search on Gilman and this tweet. It won't take long -- there is virtually no reporting, other than the Twitterverse. What does that tell you? Are you disturbed by how your news information is "curated?"

What about questions and comments to other leaders of the TIP operation? One is always left wondering about the proverbial shoe being on the other foot. What would the reporting look like if a Trump advocate or leader of a similarly situated group on the other side of the political spectrum had tweeted the same thing about an opposite number? I think you already know the reactions and the answers.

More broadly -- how long does the American public put up with this sort of unchecked lethality? What about the not-so-thinly veiled calls for execution by firing squad of one's political opponents? When does the favored elite stop getting a pass for unlawful, unethical conduct? When does the reaction stop being, "Oh, well!"? Is there a gag level? A breaking point? Do Gilman's fantasies have to be acted upon before people understand the dangers of this sort of vicious thinking and communication?

I am a strong supporter of the First Amendment, even on occasions when people get out on thin ice or test the limits of what is "acceptable." Gilman's tweet is something else. There is the tweet itself -- which is a repulsive and dangerous smear against Anton and a call to violence -- but there is also what it means against the backdrop of what TIP is all about, how it is organized, funded, promoted in the media, and used as a rallying point by the Left for disruption of a presidential election.

You already know what TIP plans to do in the coming election. You can read Anton's analysis. Now you have the real, unvarnished thinking of TIP co-founder Gilman. Gilman likes execution by firing squad. Election Day is coming. TIP wants it to be Election Season. Beware of how much else they want that comes to fruition. It could be dangerous.

Chris Farrell is a former counterintelligence case officer. For the past 20 years, he has served as the Director of Investigations & Research for Judicial Watch. The views expressed are the author's alone, and not necessarily those of Judicial Watch.

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10 Reader Comments

Jose Escovar • Dec 27, 2020 at 14:47

Look back in hindsight, the job you did was prophetic. The Trump administration knew about it but they believed that legally they could have challenged the massive fraud but they were wrong. They underestimated the degree of the judiciary's corruption and cowardice. On the positive side they exposed that to all of us. Trump is still fighting and he will win but I wish next time they refuse to go to elections if they are not conducted under strict controls.

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Ron Blower • Sep 27, 2020 at 19:14

Dershowitz asks: "When does the reaction stop being, Oh, well!?". I could easily wish there actually WAS an "Oh, well" reaction. ANY "reaction" at all is preferable to the endless silence of the MSM. As much as our National Leadership of both Parties, for one excuse or another, cedes...willingly!!... parts of the American/European Heritage, Culture and hard-won Constitutional Freedoms to those born and nourished for Terrorism, the destruction of Democracy and ALL its Cultures from the outside; Muslim individuals whose goals, therefore, can only be, at best, suspect or, at the worse, inimical to most things American.

It's not a-phobia nor Phobic to address the obvious which the Democratic leadership, No Trumpers, BLM and its white tag-alongs fail to judge their new agenda which relies on the "End Justifies the Means"

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David • Sep 26, 2020 at 22:14

It is clear Nils Gilman from Berggruen Institute and UC Berkley is publicly in favour of the murder of political opponent, Michael Anton. This is intimidation and certainly not an example
of respectful disagreement.

Gilman should be appropriately charged in court and if found guilty his resignation
should remain. If innocent he should continue in his previous roles at Berrgruen and UC Berkley.

If he is not charged with intimidation of political opponents then this is an obvious failure of US legal system.
The long and short term consequences to the political climate, US society, equality before the law etc can only be damaging.

The right for a person to express a non violent,non racist, non slanderous point of view etc without being physically, legally or psychologically intimidated is a fundamental feature of a true democracy.

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Owen Kinnan • Sep 26, 2020 at 12:08

One reason people don't rise up to this is that they have never heard of the TIP. No one knows about it. The TV press is gone. No news there. Then, the major newspapers and magazines are gone. No news there, only propaganda and distorted versions of the truth exist in most of the the TV and print outlets. No real news is reported.

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Harvey L • Sep 25, 2020 at 12:20

The so called media or should I say Pravda has already had its script censored by the left, the Internet sites such as Gatestone are the only ones telling the proper news. My only hope is that the people in November are ruled by the people and not a bunch of elitist thugs as they are in China et al.

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John Fox • Sep 25, 2020 at 09:15

This is my first time hearing of TIP or either of these guys. Why didn't this make it on Drudge?

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John Fox • Sep 25, 2020 at 23:11

Because Drudge has shifted to be very anti-Trump and the TIP is also very anti-Trump. Politics makes for strange bedfellows, as do journalism and blogging.

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Thomas Wigand • Sep 25, 2020 at 08:32

Thank you for your continuing coverage of this, Mr. Farrell. Alas, far too few Americans are yet aware of the de facto coup (or revolution, if you prefer) taking place as we speak!

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Pierre Pendre • Sep 25, 2020 at 08:08

Maybe one American in 20,000 knows who Brasillach was (ditto even in France) which makes Gilman's reference either rather subtle or rather pointless. It would have passed almost unnoticed had not some conservatives made a fuss. Despite the general ignorance, Gilman can still legitimately be accused of promoting political violence and it's a sad example of the incontinence and desperation of the liberal intelligentsia. I'd wager that Gilman himself is the opposite of a physically violent man. Since he has a taste for comparison, I'd say his willingness to urge it on others puts him on the same level as the little Herr Doktor of unlamented memory. He demeans himself.

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Bullright • Sep 25, 2020 at 06:06

Suddenly, there is no room for truth-tellers or fact-checkers in the media. Their silence condemns them. Going with the fascist flow is the popular notion. Their tower of projection is awful wobbly.

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