Category Archives: chicanery
President Trump Allows His Mail-in Ballot to Be Harvested
The Hill:
The Palm Beach County elections office received the completed ballots on Monday, a spokesperson for the office confirmed to The Hill.The president and the first lady’s ballots were dropped off in person instead of being returned to the… Continue reading
Roger Stone Sent Message to WikiLeaks to Release Podesta Emails Immediately in Response to Trump “Access Hollywood” Tape
As many suspected (via the Senate Report):
Some details about the day of the Access Hollywood tape/Podesta emails release: Trump campaign team heard about the tape an hour before its release. Stone told Corsi to get Assange to "drop… Continue reading
“Bipartisan Senate report describes 2016 Trump campaign eager to accept help from foreign power”
NBC News:
In a thousand-page bipartisan report released Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee said the Trump administration obstructed its investigation with “novel claims” of executive privilege. It painted a portrait of a Trump campaign eager to accept help from a… Continue reading
“Legal Loopholes Leave the U.S. Vulnerable to Election Interference; Report finds Russia, China, and other countries have spent over $300 million to influence the democratic process in countries around the world.”
Foreign Policy:
Authoritarian regimes including Russia and China have spent more than $300 million over the past decade to interfere in political processes of dozens of other countries around the world, according to a new report released Tuesday by… Continue reading
Is Kanye West Breaking the Law By Coordinating with the Trump Campaign While Running for President? Perhaps
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about whether Kanye West, who is running for President and getting on the ballots in at least a few states, is somehow breaking campaign finance law by doing so given the… Continue reading
“Chinese network of fake accounts targets Trump with English-language videos”
WaPo:
A network of fake Chinese accounts has been posting videos bashing President Trump, criticizing his recent closure of China’s consulate in Houston, his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his threats to ban the popular social media app TikTok,… Continue reading
“Trump aides exploring executive actions to curb voting by mail”
Politico:
Trump, impatient with the slow nature of lawsuits, suggested last week that the November election be postponed, though he later claimed he was merely trying to highlight the possibility of fraud after he faced a backlash from even… Continue reading
“Trump campaign ad manipulates three images to put Biden in a ‘basement’”
WaPo:
The Pinocchio Test
Two of these photos fall under the category of “doctored” in the Fact Checker’s Guide to Manipulated Video. In the most egregious case, one image literally takes Biden from a nature preserve and puts him… Continue reading
“Kanye West Indicates That His Spoiler Campaign is Indeed Designed to Hurt Biden”
Forbes:
Amid various reports that Republican and Trump-affiliated political operatives are trying to get Kanye West onto various state ballots for November’s presidential election, the billionaire rap superstar indicated, in an interview by text today, that he was in… Continue reading
“State Dept. Traces Russian Disinformation Links”
NYT:
Russia continues to use a network of proxy websites to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda in the United States and other parts of the West, according to a State Department report released on Wednesday.The report is one of the… Continue reading
“Republican operatives are helping Kanye West get on general election ballots”
CNN:
Republican operatives, some with ties to President Donald Trump, are actively helping Kanye West get on presidential general election ballots in states ranging from Vermont to Arkansas to Wisconsin.The effort is raising questions about whether Republicans are pushing… Continue reading
“Bice: Wisconsin Republicans help Kanye West in his attempt to get on state presidential ballot”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
The rapper’s campaign turned in a number of signatures on Tuesday in a bid to get on the November presidential ballot in Wisconsin. He is making similar attempts in Ohio, Arkansas and West Virginia.Reid Magney, spokesman for… Continue reading
Trump Made at Least 713 Statements and Tweets Since 2012 Calling Voting and Elections into Question, Including 91 from January through July of This Year
Incredible stats from Susan Glasser in the New Yorker:
In fact, Trump’s attack on the legitimacy of the upcoming election has been intensifying for months, as his poll standing has sunk. Trump’s “Twitter Richter scale,” as the Democratic lawyer Norm… Continue reading