Category Archives: chicanery

Bonkers NYT Story That Adds to Reasons to Disqualify Trump from Running Again: Trump Almost Fired the Acting Attorney General To Install at DOJ Someone to Push Baseless Voter Fraud Claims, and Only Threat of Mass Resignations Stopped It from Happening

January 22, 2021, 5:08 pmchicanery, Department of Justice, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Truly frightening story: The Justice Department’s top leaders listened in stunned silence this month: One of their peers, they were told, had devised a plan with President Donald J. Trump to oust Jeffrey A. Rosen as acting attorney general and… Continue reading

“Shell companies and ‘dark money’ may hide details of Trump ties to DC protests”

January 22, 2021, 10:37 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

Anna Massoglia for Open Secrets: Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign aides played key roles orchestrating a rally protesting certification of President-elect Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election before hundreds of rioters breached the U.S.… Continue reading

“Trump leaves QAnon and the online MAGA world crushed and confused”

January 21, 2021, 8:25 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

Politico: The pardons went to Democrats, lobbyists and rappers, with nary a “patriot” among them. The mass arrests of Antifa campaigners never came. The inauguration stage at the Capitol, full of America’s most powerful politicians, was not purged of Satan-worshipping… Continue reading

Trump On His Way Out Pardons Corrupt Congressmen Rick Renzi and Randy “Duke” Cunningham

January 20, 2021, 7:19 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Quite the rogue’s gallery.

“FBI investigating whether Capitol assault suspect tried to sell Pelosi computer to Russian intelligence service”

January 18, 2021, 8:14 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

ABC News: The FBI is investigating whether a woman who allegedly participated in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol stole a computer or hard drive from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the intention of… Continue reading

“QAnon adherents discussed posing as National Guard to try to infiltrate inauguration, according to FBI intelligence briefing”

January 18, 2021, 7:47 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: The FBI privately warned law enforcement agencies Monday that far-right extremists have discussed posing as National Guard members in Washington and others have reviewed maps of vulnerable spots in the city — signs of potential efforts to disrupt Wednesday’s… Continue reading

Jonathan Swan’s “Off the Rails” Series Describes How Dangerous and Bonkers Election Fraud Theories Swirled Around the President

January 18, 2021, 9:37 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

From Episode 3 of Axios’s must-read “Off the Rails” series: President Trump was sitting in the Oval Office one day in late November when a call came in from lawyer Sidney Powell. “Ugh, Sidney,” he told the staff in the… Continue reading

“How Republicans Are Warping Reality Around the Capitol Attack”

January 17, 2021, 3:08 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Immediately after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, all corners of the political spectrum repudiated the mob of President Trump’s supporters. Yet within days, prominent Republicans, party officials, conservative media voices and rank-and-file voters began making a rhetorical shift… Continue reading

“Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump”

January 16, 2021, 4:19 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media sites suspended President Trump and key allies last week, research firm Zignal Labs has found, underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the falsehoods poisoning public… Continue reading

“Progressive group urges corporations to halt donations to conservative Federalist Society after riot”

January 16, 2021, 3:24 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

CNBC: A progressive group is urging corporations to stop contributing to the Federalist Society after one of the conservative legal organization’s leaders was featured at last week’s rally that preceded the deadly riot on Capitol Hill.Demand Justice told CNBC that… Continue reading

“Nonprofits helped organize the pro-Trump rally before the Capitol siege – but they probably won’t suffer any consequences”

January 16, 2021, 3:01 pmchicanery, tax law and election lawRick Hasen

The Conversation: Editor’s note: Some of the money used to organize the Jan. 6 pro-Trump “March to Save America” came from social welfare groups. One of them, Women for America First, notably obtained a permit from the… Continue reading

Remember that Luzerne County Thrown-Away Military Ballots Issue? “A Pennsylvania election probe that Trump falsely touted as a sign of vote-rigging ended without charges”

January 16, 2021, 2:55 pmabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

Philly Inquirer: Federal prosecutors in Harrisburg announced Friday they had found “insufficient evidence” of a crime in an election investigation that President Donald Trump and his allies had repeatedly touted as a sign of vote-rigging in Pennsylvania.The case, involving … Continue reading

“Far-right groups make plans for protests and assaults before and after Inauguration Day”

January 14, 2021, 2:15 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: President Trump’s exhortation for his supporters to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6 has galvanized a nationwide extremist movement and fueled those determined to disrupt the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden and violently challenge the legitimacy of… Continue reading

“A ‘Stop the Steal’ organizer, now banned by Twitter, said three GOP lawmakers helped plan his D.C. rally”

January 13, 2021, 7:11 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: Weeks before a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, right-wing activist Ali Alexander told his followers he was planning something big for Jan. 6.Alexander, who organized the “Stop the Steal” movement, said he hatched the plan… Continue reading

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