Category Archives: chicanery

“Bipartisan Senate report describes 2016 Trump campaign eager to accept help from foreign power”

August 18, 2020, 7:29 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

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.”

August 18, 2020, 7:19 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

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

August 13, 2020, 9:20 amcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

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”

August 12, 2020, 1:35 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

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”

August 9, 2020, 9:01 pmabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

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’”

August 7, 2020, 7:46 amcampaigns, cheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

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”

August 7, 2020, 7:30 amballot access, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

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”

August 6, 2020, 7:44 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

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”

August 6, 2020, 6:56 amballot access, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

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”

August 4, 2020, 8:33 pmballot access, chicaneryRick Hasen

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

August 3, 2020, 8:52 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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

“Inside the Project Veritas Plan to Steal the Election; James O’Keefe’s group is part of a sprawling campaign to delegitimize mail-in balloting in the fall—a campaign being led by the White House.”

August 3, 2020, 8:30 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

TNR reports.

“Ransomware feared as possible saboteur for November election”

August 2, 2020, 2:35 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

AP: Federal authorities say one of the gravest threats to the November election is a well-timed ransomware attack that could paralyze voting operations. The threat isn’t just from foreign governments, but any fortune-seeking criminal.Ransomware attacks targeting state and local… Continue reading

Republicans and Democrats Fight Over Green Party Ballot Access in Montana

July 27, 2020, 7:06 amballot access, chicanery, third partiesRick Hasen

The issue is in the hands of a judge, with Republicans wanting the Green Party on the ballot (to siphon votes from Democrats) and Democrats seeking to kick the Green Party off.