Category Archives: chicanery
“WikiLeaks Is Fanning a Conspiracy Theory That Hillary Murdered a DNC Staffer”
Horrible for the family and friends of Seth Rich.
“Cyberwars, voter insecurity and threats of civil unrest”
Happy to be on today’s To the Point:
Donald Trump is already raising questions about the outcome of the November election, telling supporters, “I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged. I have to be honest.” While experts… Continue reading
Trump Now Jokes About Assassination of Hillary Clinton If Elected
Watch the video of this remark: “If she gets to pick her judges —nothing you can do…Although the 2nd Amendment people maybe there is.”
Terrifying and horrible.
And I don’t think the “I was only kidding” defense works with jokes… Continue reading
“Hackers Say It Would Be ‘Too Easy’ To Hack The U.S. Elections; ‘If it were up to me, I would remove every single electronic voting machine in America.'”
Sheera Frankel for Buzzfeed with another chilling report.
“Donald Trump is wrong. Rigging an election is almost impossible”
Very nice Ari Berman piece in WaPo.
“David Prosser calls John Doe appeal weak”
Wouldn’t have expected this while cert. petition pending:
Newly retired Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser thinks an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over his role in derailing the John Doe investigation into campaign financing is weak.… Continue reading
“How Donald Trump’s ‘Rigged’ Claim Chips Away at Democracy”
Important from Brendan Nyhan at NYT’s The UpShot.
“U.S. Seeks to Protect Voting System From Cyberattacks”
Must-read NYT:
The Obama administration is weighing new steps to bolster the security of the United States’ voting process against cyberthreats, including whether to designate the electronic ballot-casting system for November’s elections as “critical infrastructure,” Jeh Johnson, the secretary of… Continue reading
What Donald Trump Has in Common with Charles Foster Kane
“Analysis: Trump Not the First to Claim Voter Fraud Will Rig Elections”
Zack Roth:
Here’s what Sen. John McCain said during a 2008 presidential debate — the highest-profile stage of the campaign. The voter registration group ACORN, McCain declared, “is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds… Continue reading
“Is Trump setting the stage to challenge November’s election result?”
McClatchy:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seems to be preparing to be a sore loser, unsettling the prospects for any post-election peace.
Three months before Election Day, the 70-year-old New York businessman is reciting electoral grievances that range from… Continue reading
“‘No evidence of it happening’: Experts scrutinize Trump’s claims of election rigging”
“Conservative group files class action lawsuit against John Doe investigators”
Wisconsin State Journal:
A conservative group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the investigators and former state officials connected to a halted criminal investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s 2012 recall campaign.
In the lawsuit, the John K. MacIver Institute alleges… Continue reading