She spread election conspiracies. It ruined her life.

[Nevilledog]

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Hank Stephenson
@hankdeanlight
Staci Burk was both a purveyor of election disinformation and a victim of it.
And, like a solid chunk of the country, she’s trying to unravel truth from fiction and figure out how she fell down this rabbithole.

She spread election conspiracies. It ruined her life.
How one of Arizona's top Stop the Steal activists came to believe the real conspiracy is to promote the hoax of election fraud
arizonaagenda.substack.com
5:09 PM · Aug 17, 2021

https://arizonaagenda.substack.com/p/she-spread-election-conspiracies

Even if you’ve never heard of Staci Burk, you’re probably familiar with her work — a smorgasbord of 2020 election fraud claims, none of which proved anywhere near true.

But the backstory of how she came to believe, and now question, those conspiracies is weirder than the conspiracies themselves. And, unlike her claims of fraud, it actually seems to be true.

For reasons she still doesn’t quite understand, Burk, a 47-year-old former Gilbert school board member, aspiring lawyer and Republican activist, was plucked out of political obscurity and placed at the center of a national campaign to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential victory. For weeks, a heavily armed security team, sent by Trump’s disgraced and pardoned former national security advisor Michael Flynn, lived at her house, allegedly protecting her while stoking her conspiracies and fears.

But nine months after the election, with no great revelation, no smoking gun pointing to the massive fraud the former president claimed, one of Arizona’s biggest Stop the Steal proponents is having second thoughts.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Staci Burk....and a whole lotta people need to stup voting against their best interests.

They are killing our Democracy.

[GusBob]

2. Interesting read. This people are easily fooled

Seems to me someone could easily scam the hell out of these freaks

[Justice matters.]

6. Ya mean, a criminaly-motivated lifelong con man and his privileged family of grifters?

Yep. Celebrity billionnaire (probably broke by now) and all that jazz...

Michael Cohen also fell in that trap.

[tanyev]

3. Wow, that was a bizarre read.

That’s not a rabbit hole, it’s a giant warren and they’re all pushing and shoving each other further and further down.

[tblue37]

4. Wow. Just wow. nt

[Tomconroy]

5. I'd have to agree that there are a lot of people

Making money off of this. Sidney Powell was constantly fundraising. I wonder how much she got. It's the only thing that could explain her lunacy.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. she also felt like she was at the center of something important.

That's what got her into trouble ... her ego

[greenjar_01]

8. A good historian will one day write a book about how Gen X folks were particularly vulnerable

to Trumpian nonsense and misinformation.

47 years old.