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April 26, 2024
(Salon) Wisconsin GOP operative Carlton Huffman is blowing the whistle on what he claims was an effort to suppress Black votes ahead of the 2020 election. While unproven confessions from a disgraced figure accused of sexual assault may be viewed with suspicion, the text messages he revealed to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel implicate new Wisconsin GOP executive director Andrew Iverson in an apparent 2020 election plot to sabotage "Souls to the Polls," a Black-led voter turnout group.
"Can Mario [Herrera, head of Hispanic outreach for Trump Victory] help get some Trump supporters to participate in Souls to the Polls?" Iverson texted Huffman on Election Day. "'Can't wait to go vote for President Trump!' Wearing [sic] MAGA hat or something."
The then-Wisconsin state head of Trump Victory continued: "I'm excited about this. Wreak havoc." .....................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/25/wreak-havoc-text-messages-suggest-a-top-wisconsin-tried-to-suppress-black-vote/?in_brief=true
"Wreak havoc": Text messages suggest a top Wisconsin Republican tried to suppress Black vote
(Salon) Wisconsin GOP operative Carlton Huffman is blowing the whistle on what he claims was an effort to suppress Black votes ahead of the 2020 election. While unproven confessions from a disgraced figure accused of sexual assault may be viewed with suspicion, the text messages he revealed to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel implicate new Wisconsin GOP executive director Andrew Iverson in an apparent 2020 election plot to sabotage "Souls to the Polls," a Black-led voter turnout group.
"Can Mario [Herrera, head of Hispanic outreach for Trump Victory] help get some Trump supporters to participate in Souls to the Polls?" Iverson texted Huffman on Election Day. "'Can't wait to go vote for President Trump!' Wearing [sic] MAGA hat or something."
The then-Wisconsin state head of Trump Victory continued: "I'm excited about this. Wreak havoc." .....................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/25/wreak-havoc-text-messages-suggest-a-top-wisconsin-tried-to-suppress-black-vote/?in_brief=true
April 26, 2024
Trump's isolation deepens after his coup crew is hit with Arizona criminal indictments
The January 6 co-conspirators are likely too wrapped up in their criminal cases to help Trump with another coup
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED APRIL 26, 2024 6:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) Because Donald Trump himself wasn't indicted, there was a surprisingly muted response to the announcement, late on Wednesday, that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes had indicted a school bus full of Republican activists and operatives on felony charges related to Trump's efforts to steal the 2020 election. A real "Trump himself or it doesn't count" bar has been set regarding interest levels in coup-related cases. The previous indictment for the same scheme in Georgia did include the former president, leading to his infamous mug shot from the Fulton County Jail. Plus, Trump himself is on trial in New York City on charges of cheating in the 2016 election, leading to a tasty stream of images of him looking bedraggled as he goes in and out of court. Hearing that Rudy Giuliani is getting arrested again just can't compete.
But it's time to take a longer look at these Arizona charges because they will have a major impact on Trump personally, even if he is not indicted (yet) for his role. These charges further erode his already-collapsing support system. Trump goes to court most days without family or friends, just his lawyers and security, people who are paid to be there. Despite his endless pleading, he can't even get his followers to show up to demonstrate outside the courthouse. The people who were willing to commit crimes to keep him in office in 2020 now have to face the real possibility that sticking by Trump's side raises their chances of going to prison. Even those foolish enough to take that risk, I suspect, are going to be too busy trying to fend off criminal charges from the last attempted coup to have much time to help Trump with planning the next one.
....(snip)....
To be certain, not everyone involved in the coup conspiracy has scootched away from Trump. Boris Epshteyn, a longtime Trump stooge, traveled with him Thursday to court in Manhattan, even as he didn't go into the building. Epshsteyn was among the 18 people indicted in Arizona on Wednesday. Notably, though, this is the first time Epshteyn has been in legal trouble — for his role in the coup, at least. He's been arrested twice before, once for bar-fighting in 2014 and again for groping women in a bar in 2021. The latter is a well-known way to impress Trump. Sure enough, shortly thereafter, Epshteyn's star began to rise in Trump world, even though the charges were later reduced to disorderly conduct. But Epshteyn is learning the lesson that seems to come for most Trump cronies: Stick with Trump and, sooner or later, you'll either be under arrest or striking a cooperation deal with the prosecution.
....(snip)....
Are Republicans finally starting to learn that Trump will never return the loyalty he's shown? His loneliness at trial is a promising hint that they may, finally, be starting to get it. Sure, Republican politicians like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Louisiana still know they have to make a big public display of kissing Trump's ring. (Though notably, he did so and then turned around and passed the Ukraine aid Trump hates.) But it's telling that even the biggest Trump bootlickers in Congress just keep not finding the time to visit him in New York, though his miserable expressions suggest he could use a little cheering up these days. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., knows the trial is right in her backyard, but somehow she couldn't take a day away from demagoguing about Ivy League universities to hold Trump's hand through it for a day. Maybe she's worried about the smell? It is hard to wash it out of those ugly blazers she loves wearing. Or maybe she, like an increasing number of Republicans, is finally starting to get it: Getting close to Trump and his various criminal schemes, even if it's just to sit through a trial, is dangerous business. Indeed it's best to leave him to hang out and dry. ................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/26/isolation-deepens-after-his-coup-crew-is-hit-with-arizona-criminal-indictments/
Trump's isolation deepens after his coup crew is hit with Arizona criminal indictments
Trump's isolation deepens after his coup crew is hit with Arizona criminal indictments
The January 6 co-conspirators are likely too wrapped up in their criminal cases to help Trump with another coup
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED APRIL 26, 2024 6:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) Because Donald Trump himself wasn't indicted, there was a surprisingly muted response to the announcement, late on Wednesday, that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes had indicted a school bus full of Republican activists and operatives on felony charges related to Trump's efforts to steal the 2020 election. A real "Trump himself or it doesn't count" bar has been set regarding interest levels in coup-related cases. The previous indictment for the same scheme in Georgia did include the former president, leading to his infamous mug shot from the Fulton County Jail. Plus, Trump himself is on trial in New York City on charges of cheating in the 2016 election, leading to a tasty stream of images of him looking bedraggled as he goes in and out of court. Hearing that Rudy Giuliani is getting arrested again just can't compete.
But it's time to take a longer look at these Arizona charges because they will have a major impact on Trump personally, even if he is not indicted (yet) for his role. These charges further erode his already-collapsing support system. Trump goes to court most days without family or friends, just his lawyers and security, people who are paid to be there. Despite his endless pleading, he can't even get his followers to show up to demonstrate outside the courthouse. The people who were willing to commit crimes to keep him in office in 2020 now have to face the real possibility that sticking by Trump's side raises their chances of going to prison. Even those foolish enough to take that risk, I suspect, are going to be too busy trying to fend off criminal charges from the last attempted coup to have much time to help Trump with planning the next one.
....(snip)....
To be certain, not everyone involved in the coup conspiracy has scootched away from Trump. Boris Epshteyn, a longtime Trump stooge, traveled with him Thursday to court in Manhattan, even as he didn't go into the building. Epshsteyn was among the 18 people indicted in Arizona on Wednesday. Notably, though, this is the first time Epshteyn has been in legal trouble — for his role in the coup, at least. He's been arrested twice before, once for bar-fighting in 2014 and again for groping women in a bar in 2021. The latter is a well-known way to impress Trump. Sure enough, shortly thereafter, Epshteyn's star began to rise in Trump world, even though the charges were later reduced to disorderly conduct. But Epshteyn is learning the lesson that seems to come for most Trump cronies: Stick with Trump and, sooner or later, you'll either be under arrest or striking a cooperation deal with the prosecution.
....(snip)....
Are Republicans finally starting to learn that Trump will never return the loyalty he's shown? His loneliness at trial is a promising hint that they may, finally, be starting to get it. Sure, Republican politicians like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Louisiana still know they have to make a big public display of kissing Trump's ring. (Though notably, he did so and then turned around and passed the Ukraine aid Trump hates.) But it's telling that even the biggest Trump bootlickers in Congress just keep not finding the time to visit him in New York, though his miserable expressions suggest he could use a little cheering up these days. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., knows the trial is right in her backyard, but somehow she couldn't take a day away from demagoguing about Ivy League universities to hold Trump's hand through it for a day. Maybe she's worried about the smell? It is hard to wash it out of those ugly blazers she loves wearing. Or maybe she, like an increasing number of Republicans, is finally starting to get it: Getting close to Trump and his various criminal schemes, even if it's just to sit through a trial, is dangerous business. Indeed it's best to leave him to hang out and dry. ................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/26/isolation-deepens-after-his-coup-crew-is-hit-with-arizona-criminal-indictments/
April 25, 2024
'The scene in Detroit is insanity': Maximum capacity reached at NFL draft
( Detroit Free Press). At long last, the 2024 NFL draft is here. Hundreds of thousands of football fans are expected to descend upon downtown Detroit for the sports spectacle that will see more than 200 new players enter the league and hope at an all-time high for all 32 teams, including the Detroit Lions.
While the actual NFL draft begins at 8 tonight with Round 1, the NFL Fan Experience opens to the public at noon, and fans are expected to beging trickling downtown far sooner. We're covering all the action as we bring the excitement to you with live updates and visuals from Detroit.
Keep up with our live updates on what's happening on Day 1 at the NFL draft's theater near Campus Martius and at the NFL Fan Experience in Hart Plaza. .........(more)
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2024/04/25/nfl-draft-2024-in-detroit-updates/73430278007/
April 25, 2024
When Scott Hoen ran to be Carson City, Nevada’s chief election official two years ago, he campaigned on “election integrity,” promising to make sure voter registration lists were accurate.
In the chaotic aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, he believed that too many of his fellow Republicans were convinced that there was widespread voter fraud. By keeping voter rolls current, Hoen thought he could restore voter trust in his county’s election system.
He won. And every day since he took office, he and his staff have tried to keep that focus, using data from all levels of government to remove voters who have moved or died from the active voter list.
....(snip)....
The Nevada lawsuit is just one example of the tactics Republicans and conservative activists are using ahead of November’s presidential election, as they seek to purge voter rolls of allegedly ineligible voters. The efforts have election experts worried about voter access. ................(more)
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/04/25/republicans-scrutinize-voting-rolls-and-ramp-up-for-mass-challenges-ahead-of-election/
Republicans scrutinize voting rolls and ramp up for mass challenges ahead of election
When Scott Hoen ran to be Carson City, Nevada’s chief election official two years ago, he campaigned on “election integrity,” promising to make sure voter registration lists were accurate.
In the chaotic aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, he believed that too many of his fellow Republicans were convinced that there was widespread voter fraud. By keeping voter rolls current, Hoen thought he could restore voter trust in his county’s election system.
He won. And every day since he took office, he and his staff have tried to keep that focus, using data from all levels of government to remove voters who have moved or died from the active voter list.
....(snip)....
The Nevada lawsuit is just one example of the tactics Republicans and conservative activists are using ahead of November’s presidential election, as they seek to purge voter rolls of allegedly ineligible voters. The efforts have election experts worried about voter access. ................(more)
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/04/25/republicans-scrutinize-voting-rolls-and-ramp-up-for-mass-challenges-ahead-of-election/
April 25, 2024
(Michigan Advance) As Tuesday’s campaign filing deadline has passed, the races for the Aug. 6 primary election are beginning to take shape with all 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives on the ballot.
Democrats currently hold a narrow 56-54 advantage in the House. As the party also controls the Senate and all top executive posts, Republicans are looking to take back the chamber this fall to serve as a check on Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s power.
....(snip)....
Incumbents face primary challenges
Overall, 36 members of the House who are seeking reelection could have one or more opponents in the primary, with 18 Democrats and 18 Republicans potentially facing a challenger in August.
....(snip)....
Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit) could be up against three other candidates in August in the 9th District: Bobby Christian, R.M. Nelson and Lory Renea Parks. On the Republican side of the ballot is Michele Lundgren, one of the 15 individuals charged for submitting a false slate of electoral votes for Donald Trump following the 2020 election, which Trump lost to President Joe Biden. ..............(more)
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/04/25/with-michigans-house-seats-back-on-the-ballot-in-2024-here-are-the-key-races-to-watch/
With Michigan's House seats back on the ballot in 2024, here are the key races to watch
(Michigan Advance) As Tuesday’s campaign filing deadline has passed, the races for the Aug. 6 primary election are beginning to take shape with all 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives on the ballot.
Democrats currently hold a narrow 56-54 advantage in the House. As the party also controls the Senate and all top executive posts, Republicans are looking to take back the chamber this fall to serve as a check on Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s power.
....(snip)....
Incumbents face primary challenges
Overall, 36 members of the House who are seeking reelection could have one or more opponents in the primary, with 18 Democrats and 18 Republicans potentially facing a challenger in August.
....(snip)....
Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit) could be up against three other candidates in August in the 9th District: Bobby Christian, R.M. Nelson and Lory Renea Parks. On the Republican side of the ballot is Michele Lundgren, one of the 15 individuals charged for submitting a false slate of electoral votes for Donald Trump following the 2020 election, which Trump lost to President Joe Biden. ..............(more)
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/04/25/with-michigans-house-seats-back-on-the-ballot-in-2024-here-are-the-key-races-to-watch/
April 25, 2024
"Where's Melania?": Missing wife is why Trump's lawyers can't pull off the "family man" defense
National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified that Trump's wife was the last thing on his mind
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED APRIL 25, 2024 6:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) In his opening statement in the People v. Donald Trump, defense attorney Todd Blanche told the Manhattan jury to gaze upon the criminal defendant and see a devoted family man. "He’s a man. He’s a husband. He’s a father," Blanche said of the former president accused of election interference. "He’s a person just like you and just like me." Hamfisted as it may be, it was a play by Blanche to distance his cranky, often sleepy client from what promised to be days, if not weeks, of testimony detailing a tawdry conspiracy to pay hush money to an adult film actress in order to cover up what sounds like rampant adultery.
There are many obvious pitfalls in this effort to recast Trump in the image of a suburban sitcom dad. The biggest might be one very noticeable absence in the courtroom. As a reporter who was pointedly ignored by Trump asked on Tuesday: "Where's Melania?"
It's not just the failed fashion model-turned-Mrs. Trump #3 who hasn't shown up in support. None of Trump's five children, or their spouses, have stood by his side in court, either. His two adult sons would rather spend time screening hypothetical future political appointments for "loyalty" than bother to show their father any in-person care at court. His eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, is posting photos of her fancy vacations rather than staying in New York with her father.
....(snip)....
Trump's alienation is both very funny and deeply satisfying, but it also points to a much bigger legal problem for him: The near-impossibility of pulling off what is often called the "John Edwards defense." The former Democratic presidential candidate was indicted in 2011 for having donors pay off his mistress to keep quiet not just about the affair, but the child the two shared. (Full disclosure: I was interviewed by the FBI during its investigation, as I briefly worked for the Edwards campaign. It was an uneventful interview since I knew nothing about the affair or the payments.) Edwards was ultimately acquitted, in part because he successfully argued the payments were more about hiding his secret from his dying wife than helping him win an election. ................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/25/wheres-melania-missing-wife-is-why-lawyers-cant-pull-off-the-family-man-defense/
"Where's Melania?"
"Where's Melania?": Missing wife is why Trump's lawyers can't pull off the "family man" defense
National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified that Trump's wife was the last thing on his mind
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED APRIL 25, 2024 6:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) In his opening statement in the People v. Donald Trump, defense attorney Todd Blanche told the Manhattan jury to gaze upon the criminal defendant and see a devoted family man. "He’s a man. He’s a husband. He’s a father," Blanche said of the former president accused of election interference. "He’s a person just like you and just like me." Hamfisted as it may be, it was a play by Blanche to distance his cranky, often sleepy client from what promised to be days, if not weeks, of testimony detailing a tawdry conspiracy to pay hush money to an adult film actress in order to cover up what sounds like rampant adultery.
There are many obvious pitfalls in this effort to recast Trump in the image of a suburban sitcom dad. The biggest might be one very noticeable absence in the courtroom. As a reporter who was pointedly ignored by Trump asked on Tuesday: "Where's Melania?"
It's not just the failed fashion model-turned-Mrs. Trump #3 who hasn't shown up in support. None of Trump's five children, or their spouses, have stood by his side in court, either. His two adult sons would rather spend time screening hypothetical future political appointments for "loyalty" than bother to show their father any in-person care at court. His eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, is posting photos of her fancy vacations rather than staying in New York with her father.
....(snip)....
Trump's alienation is both very funny and deeply satisfying, but it also points to a much bigger legal problem for him: The near-impossibility of pulling off what is often called the "John Edwards defense." The former Democratic presidential candidate was indicted in 2011 for having donors pay off his mistress to keep quiet not just about the affair, but the child the two shared. (Full disclosure: I was interviewed by the FBI during its investigation, as I briefly worked for the Edwards campaign. It was an uneventful interview since I knew nothing about the affair or the payments.) Edwards was ultimately acquitted, in part because he successfully argued the payments were more about hiding his secret from his dying wife than helping him win an election. ................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/25/wheres-melania-missing-wife-is-why-lawyers-cant-pull-off-the-family-man-defense/
April 25, 2024
(Salon) In a preliminary hearing on 15 Republicans who had been indicted on charges of election forgery for their plot to send illegitimate electors to the electoral vote count on January 6, 2021, a state investigator unveiled that Donald Trump, alongside advisor Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, were considered unindicted co-conspirators in the case.
The revelation came as an attorney for alleged fake elector Michele Lundgren questioned Howard Shock, an investigator at the Michigan Attorney General’s office, on other conspirators in the case.
"Finally, former President Donald Trump?" Silverthorn asked, per ABC News.
"Yes," Shock said under oath. ...............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/24/and-giuliani-named-unindicted-co-conspirators-in-michigan-fake-elector-plot/?in_brief=true
Trump and Giuliani named unindicted co-conspirators in Michigan fake elector plot
(Salon) In a preliminary hearing on 15 Republicans who had been indicted on charges of election forgery for their plot to send illegitimate electors to the electoral vote count on January 6, 2021, a state investigator unveiled that Donald Trump, alongside advisor Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, were considered unindicted co-conspirators in the case.
The revelation came as an attorney for alleged fake elector Michele Lundgren questioned Howard Shock, an investigator at the Michigan Attorney General’s office, on other conspirators in the case.
"Finally, former President Donald Trump?" Silverthorn asked, per ABC News.
"Yes," Shock said under oath. ...............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/24/and-giuliani-named-unindicted-co-conspirators-in-michigan-fake-elector-plot/?in_brief=true
April 25, 2024
(Detroit News) Lansing — Former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides were co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan's 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney General Dana Nessel's office testified Wednesday, as new details of the effort to prosecute the alleged scheme took shape in two battleground states.
Howard Shock, a special agent for Nessel, said Trump; Mark Meadows, who was Trump's chief of staff; and Rudy Giuliani, who was his personal lawyer, are considered "unindicted co-conspirators" in Michigan's false elector case. Shock's comments came the same day that 11 Arizona Republican electors and seven other Trump allies, including Meadows and Giuliani, were indicted in Arizona.
In total, over the last two days, Shock, the Michigan investigator, identified 11 conspirators who haven't been charged with a crime. That means Michigan prosecutors believe they participated, to some extent, in an alleged scheme to commit forgery by creating a false document asserting Trump had won Michigan's 16 electoral votes when Democrat Joe Biden had won them.
Shock's testimony highlighted the sixth day of preliminary examinations in Ingham County District Court as Nessel's office pursues felony charges against a group of Republican activists who signed the certificate of votes claiming Trump won. ..............(more)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/24/donald-trump-unindicted-co-conspirator-in-false-electors-plot-michigan-rudy-giuliani-mark-meadows/73420368007/
Trump is a co-conspirator in Michigan's 2020 false electors plot, state investigator says
(Detroit News) Lansing — Former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides were co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan's 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney General Dana Nessel's office testified Wednesday, as new details of the effort to prosecute the alleged scheme took shape in two battleground states.
Howard Shock, a special agent for Nessel, said Trump; Mark Meadows, who was Trump's chief of staff; and Rudy Giuliani, who was his personal lawyer, are considered "unindicted co-conspirators" in Michigan's false elector case. Shock's comments came the same day that 11 Arizona Republican electors and seven other Trump allies, including Meadows and Giuliani, were indicted in Arizona.
In total, over the last two days, Shock, the Michigan investigator, identified 11 conspirators who haven't been charged with a crime. That means Michigan prosecutors believe they participated, to some extent, in an alleged scheme to commit forgery by creating a false document asserting Trump had won Michigan's 16 electoral votes when Democrat Joe Biden had won them.
Shock's testimony highlighted the sixth day of preliminary examinations in Ingham County District Court as Nessel's office pursues felony charges against a group of Republican activists who signed the certificate of votes claiming Trump won. ..............(more)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/24/donald-trump-unindicted-co-conspirator-in-false-electors-plot-michigan-rudy-giuliani-mark-meadows/73420368007/
April 24, 2024
( Detroit Metro Times) Racist and pro-Nazi messages appeared on at least three digital billboards in metro Detroit over the weekend to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
A group dubbed “White Lives Matter Michigan” took credit for the signs in Hazel Park, Mount Clemens, and Brownstown.
“White Lives Matter Michigan permeated censorship to obtain three roadside billboards throughout Southeastern Michigan to dog-whistle morale boosting messages to pro-Whites for this 4/20 Day of Action!” the group tweeted Saturday. ...........(more)
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/racist-messages-splashed-across-billboards-in-metro-detroit-on-hitlers-birthday-36078810
Racist billboards appeared across metro Detroit on Hitler's birthday
( Detroit Metro Times) Racist and pro-Nazi messages appeared on at least three digital billboards in metro Detroit over the weekend to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
A group dubbed “White Lives Matter Michigan” took credit for the signs in Hazel Park, Mount Clemens, and Brownstown.
“White Lives Matter Michigan permeated censorship to obtain three roadside billboards throughout Southeastern Michigan to dog-whistle morale boosting messages to pro-Whites for this 4/20 Day of Action!” the group tweeted Saturday. ...........(more)
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/racist-messages-splashed-across-billboards-in-metro-detroit-on-hitlers-birthday-36078810
April 24, 2024
(Michigan Advance) Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee on Friday announced a “100,000 person strong” program designed to harass election officials and their employees and discredit democracy in Nevada and a dozen other states.
In a statement announcing its Orwellian named “election integrity program,” the RNC said it is “establishing a robust network of monitoring, and protection against any violation or fraud.”
Neither the RNC, Trump, nor anyone else has ever provided any evidence of fraud that would have altered results of the 2020 election that Trump lost to Joe Biden.
....(snip)....
The RNC’s announcement issued Friday is loaded with hyperbole and innuendo about “voter fraud,” and a “rigged” election, but refers to no evidence of either. That’s not surprising. To reiterate, the courts and election officials in state after state, including Nevada’s then-Secretary of State, Republican Barbara Cegavske, found no evidence that the 2020 election was “rigged.” .............(more)
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/04/23/trump-rnc-promise-aggressive-election-interference-in-battleground-states/
Trump, RNC promise 'aggressive' election interference in battleground states
(Michigan Advance) Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee on Friday announced a “100,000 person strong” program designed to harass election officials and their employees and discredit democracy in Nevada and a dozen other states.
In a statement announcing its Orwellian named “election integrity program,” the RNC said it is “establishing a robust network of monitoring, and protection against any violation or fraud.”
Neither the RNC, Trump, nor anyone else has ever provided any evidence of fraud that would have altered results of the 2020 election that Trump lost to Joe Biden.
....(snip)....
The RNC’s announcement issued Friday is loaded with hyperbole and innuendo about “voter fraud,” and a “rigged” election, but refers to no evidence of either. That’s not surprising. To reiterate, the courts and election officials in state after state, including Nevada’s then-Secretary of State, Republican Barbara Cegavske, found no evidence that the 2020 election was “rigged.” .............(more)
https://michiganadvance.com/2024/04/23/trump-rnc-promise-aggressive-election-interference-in-battleground-states/
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