CNN Commentator Mocks Arizona ‘Cyber Nimrods’ Over Audit Results: ‘Could Not Produce the Kraken’

CNN commentator and Republican strategist Alice Stewart elicited laughs from the rest of Friday’s The Lead panel for mocking the “cyber nimrods” behind the Arizona audit.

The much-derided Maricopa County audit has reached a conclusion, and per multiple reports over the past day, President Joe Biden’s win has been affirmed yet again.

Jake Tapper brought up former President Donald Trump’s statement touting the audit before the initial reports dropped.

“The problem with Arizona,” Stewart said, “these are the president’s own cyber nimrods who could not produce the Kraken…”

As the panel laughed, Tapper remarked, “I think you misspoke. They call themselves cyber ninjas.”

Stewart continued on to say, “We knew we had free and fair elections across the country. We knew we had free and fair elections in Arizona. And this exercise in futility is a complete and absolute waste of time. And Republicans should not continue to feed into the big lie.”

“We should not continue to support people that will investigate allegations of a false election,” she continued, saying Republicans should focus on policy and not “past grievances of 2020.”

The press conference for the audit is underway as of this posting, and Maricopa County made a point of live-tweeting it to smack down some of their claims.

A note on signature validation. We don’t “predict” signatures. We have trained staff looking at every signature. We do a complete signature analysis, the accuracy of which has been proven in court. See Ward v. Jackson.

— Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) September 24, 2021

“Anomaly” seems to be another way of saying the Senate’s contractors don’t understand election processes. Sadly, this is par for the course for the #azaudit.

— Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) September 24, 2021

You can watch Stewart’s comments above, via CNN.