TPM Offers Great Narrative Description of Trump and His Allies’ Months-Long Lies About Voter Fraud in An Attempt to Steal the 2020 Election
This from Tierney Sneed and Matt Shuham is a must-read.
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“Watchdog Probes Whether Justice Department Officials Tried to Alter 2020 Election Results”
WSJ:
The Justice Department’s inspector general said Monday his office will investigate whether department officials “engaged in an improper attempt” to overturn President Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.The announcement comes after news reports that former President Donald Trump considered… Continue reading
Blockbuster WSJ Report: “Trump Pressed Justice Department to Go Directly to Supreme Court to Overturn Election Results”
Jess Bravin and Sadie Gurman for WSJ:
In his last weeks in office, former President Donald Trump considered moving to replace the acting attorney general with another official ready to pursue unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, and he pushed… Continue reading
“Jeffrey Clark Was Considered Unassuming. Then He Plotted With Trump.”
NYT profile:
It was New Year’s Eve, but the Justice Department’s top leaders had little to celebrate as they discussed Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the civil division, who had repeatedly pushed them to help President Donald J.… Continue reading
“Pennsylvania Lawmaker Played Key Role in Trump’s Plot to Oust Acting Attorney General”
NYT:
When Representative Scott Perry joined his colleagues in a monthslong campaign to undermine the results of the presidential election, promoting “Stop the Steal” events and supporting an attempt to overturn millions of legally cast votes, he often took a… Continue reading
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
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”
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”
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
“FBI investigating whether Capitol assault suspect tried to sell Pelosi computer to Russian intelligence service”
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”
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
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”
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”
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