Category Archives: chicanery

“The Trump-Russia-WikiLeaks Alliance and Campaign Finance Laws”

November 20, 2017, 6:56 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

Bob Bauer for Just Security: The WikiLeaks-Trump Jr. correspondence has passed through this round of commentary. I thought that these Twitter exchanges unquestionably deepened the campaign’s legal exposure to liability for aiding illicit foreign national activity in U.S. elections. It… Continue reading

Must read: “Russian Twitter Trolls Stoked Voter Fraud Fear Before Election”

November 14, 2017, 8:02 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

NBC News: Russian trolls used Twitter to challenge the validity of the U.S. presidential election months before it took place, according to new NBC News analysis. In apparent expectation of a Trump loss, the trolls began sowing seeds of doubt… Continue reading

Wikileaks Urged Trump Not to Concede If He Lost

November 13, 2017, 3:37 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

From blockbuster Atlantic report on emails between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks, comes the following nugget: WikiLeaks didn’t write again until Election Day, November 8, 2016. “Hi Don if your father ‘loses’ we think it is much more interesting if… Continue reading

“Russia Twitter trolls rushed to deflect Trump bad news”

November 10, 2017, 8:01 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

AP: Disguised Russian agents on Twitter rushed to deflect scandalous news about Donald Trump just before last year’s presidential electionwhile straining to refocus criticism on the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to an Associated Press analysis of… Continue reading

“St. Paul mayoral candidate Dai Thao ‘involved’ in voter fraud investigation, police say”

November 8, 2017, 7:48 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

Star Tribune reports.

“Trump Jr. Hinted at Review of Anti-Russia Law, Moscow Lawyer Says”

November 6, 2017, 7:33 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Bloomberg: A Russian lawyer who met with President Donald Trump’s oldest son last year says he indicated that a law targeting Russia could be re-examined if his father won the election and asked her for written evidence that… Continue reading

“Russia tried to corrupt the 2016 election. Could it do the same Tuesday?”

November 5, 2017, 8:56 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: There’s no evidence that Russians were able to change any votes after they were cast, but at the very least, they succeeded in raising questions about the U.S. voting process — questions that James Norton, a homeland security expert… Continue reading

“Trump Says Justice Dept. and F.B.I. Must ‘Do What Is Right’ and Investigate Democrats”

November 3, 2017, 8:00 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Banana republic territory: Frustrated with the Justice Department’s reluctance to investigate his political opponents, President Trump on Friday said he would like the agency to run itself, but he and “a lot of people” are disappointed in the top… Continue reading

“Campaign informant: I was paid $30 to hand messenger ballot to Atlantic City Democratic operative”

November 2, 2017, 8:39 amabsentee ballots, chicanery, vote buyingRick Hasen

Philadelphia Inquirer on some absentee ballot vote buying allegations: Voice recorder in his pocket, Rodney Cotton, 51, got out of the private detectives’ car and headed for the Gilliam for Mayor headquarters on Atlantic Avenue. As the two retired state… Continue reading

“An exploration of Donald Trump’s allegations of massive voter fraud in the 2016 General Election”

October 31, 2017, 3:40 pmchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

David Cottrell, Michael Herron, and Sean Westwood have written this article for Electoral Studies. Here is the abstract: As Republican candidate for president and later 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump has claimed repeatedly and vociferously that the… Continue reading

“Trump Campaign Got Early Word Russia Had Democrats’ Emails”

October 30, 2017, 8:41 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: The guilty plea of a 30-year-old campaign aide — so green that he listed Model United Nations in his qualifications — shifted the narrative on Monday of the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russia: Court documents revealed that Russian officials… Continue reading