“Did Google Meddle in 2016 Election More Than Russia?”
No. But it’s interesting to hear Tucker Carlson get angry about efforts to help Latinos vote.
Category Archives: chicanery
“Trump Officials Say They Can’t Recall Discussing Census Citizenship Question”
Hansi Lo Wang, who’s been all over this issue, chronicles the memory loss.
“Trump waives millions in claims against Stormy Daniels in new fallout from illegal payoff”
LA Times:
President Trump has agreed to give up his right to pursue millions of dollars in damages against Stormy Daniels in a move to kill litigation over an illegal payoff to the adult-film star.
The maneuver marks a… Continue reading
“Beto O’Rourke Campaign Says Texts About Illegal Voting Were Sent by an ‘Impostor’”
NYT:
Voters in Texas received a mysterious text message on Wednesday, one that purported to be from a campaign volunteer for Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat who is running against Ted Cruz for Senate this fall.
“We are in search of… Continue reading
“Judge orders independent candidate off the ballot in Va. congressional race, citing ‘out and out fraud”
WaPo:
A Richmond Circuit Court judge on Wednesday ordered independent candidate Shaun Brown removed from the ballot in Virginia’s 2nd District congressional race, finding that her qualifying petition was tainted by “forgery” and “out and out fraud.”
Many of those… Continue reading
“A Republican congressman helped a rival collect signatures to get on the ballot. Some of those signatures were fake.”
WaPo:
Rep. Scott W. Taylor (R-Va.) sat in the backroom of his campaign office in a strip mall. Mini-blinds closed, a modest “Scott Taylor U.S. Congress” sign taped to the door was all that identified his reelection headquarters. Inside, a… Continue reading
“Lobbyist Illegally Helped Russian Buy Trump Inauguration Tickets”
NYT:
An American lobbyist who worked with Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs pleaded guilty on Friday to failing to register as an agent of a foreign power and disclosed to prosecutors that he helped a Russian political operative and a Ukranian… Continue reading
“Father of Alison Lundergan Grimes indicted in campaign finance conspiracy”
Kentucky.com:
Longtime Kentucky Democratic operatives Jerry Lundergan and Dale Emmons were indicted by a federal grand jury in Lexington Friday for allegedly making illegal contributions to the 2014 U.S. Senate campaign of Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes and then… Continue reading
North Carolina–DOJ: “Nineteen Foreign Nationals Charged for Voting in 2016 Election”
Press release:
Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina today announced that nineteen foreign nationals were charged with, among other crimes, voting by alien for their actions prior to and on November 8,… Continue reading
“Trump, Cohen and campaign finance: Who’s right and what you need to know about elections, money”
Fredreka Schouten for USA Today.
“Trump says Michael Cohen didn’t commit crimes. He’s wrong.”
Very nice explainer from Trevor Potter in WaPo.
“Those payments to women were unseemly. That doesn’t mean they were illegal.”
Brad Smith writes for WaPo.
See also this piece at Reason.
I disagree with Brad, for reasons I’ve given most recently in this Slate piece from last week and my ELB Podcast with Bob Bauer.
“BREAKING: Elections consultant fired over proposal to close Georgia precincts”
AJC:
The elections consultant who proposed closing most voting locations in a majority African-American rural Georgia county has been fired ahead of a vote Friday on consolidating precincts.
The proposal to shutter seven of the county’s nine precincts before… Continue reading
Will David Pecker Implicate Trump?
Yesterday I suggested David Pecker might be next to take a plea deal, but it turns out he got something better: immunity. and it looks like he’s implicating the president (from the WSJ):
David Pecker, the chief executive… Continue reading