Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“As a G.O.P. Playbook on Voter Fraud Falls Flat, Some Ask: What’s Next?”

November 16, 2020, 7:14 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Michael Wines for the NYT: It was an election where Republican charges of fictitious voter fraud took center stage before, during and after the count, backed by a barrage of lawsuits intent on making it harder to cast or tally… Continue reading

“Stop the Steal’s massive disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone”

November 15, 2020, 7:43 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN: It is an internet battle cry: Stop the Steal has swept across inboxes, Facebook pages and Twitter like an out-of-control virus, spreading misinformation and violent rhetoric — and spilling into real life, like the protest planned for DC this… Continue reading

NYT Traces Trump Voter Fraud Charges Over Time

November 15, 2020, 7:40 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Like similar episodes in Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the scene in Detroit was the culmination of a yearslong strategy by Mr. Trump to use the power of the executive branch, an army of lawyers, the echo chamber… Continue reading

“Giuliani adds fuel to discredited theories about voting machines.”

November 14, 2020, 2:52 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, continued on Saturday his effort to delegitimize votes cast through electronic voting machines, citing several conspiracies connected to the companies that make the machines and the software they run in a… Continue reading

“Christopher Krebs Hasn’t Been Fired, Yet”

November 14, 2020, 2:43 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Christopher Krebs is a 43-year-old former Microsoft executive who had the unenviable government job of protecting the nation’s election machinery from manipulation by Russia or other foreign hackers. It turns out, though, that some of the most dangerous interference… Continue reading

Trump-backed group “is cold-calling thousands of people in Pennsylvania and elsewhere and asking them if they voted in an apparent attempt to find instances of misconduct.”

November 13, 2020, 3:03 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Sigh.

Trump Promoting Fantasy View of His Election Challenges

November 13, 2020, 2:42 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: The unrealistic prediction from the president, published in the Friday edition of Washington Examiner correspondent Byron York’s newsletter, represented some of Trump’s first remarks to a member of the news media since Biden was declared the winner of the… Continue reading

“Trump Cries Election Fraud. In Court, His Lawyers Don’t.”

November 13, 2020, 7:05 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WSJ: President Trump has claimed widespread fraud was at play in the presidential election. Several of his lawyers have told judges in courtrooms across the country that they don’t believe that to be true.The Trump campaign or Republican allies have… Continue reading

“Va., Md. Republicans follow Trump playbook, questioning his defeat and refusing to concede.”

November 13, 2020, 6:32 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: “Why do people think I have to concede? I WILL NOT CONCEDE,” wrote Manga Anantatmula, the Virginia Republican who lost to Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D) last weekby 43 points and nearly 170,000 votes.“Please donate what you can… Continue reading

WaPo Reports a Trump Campaign Grasping at Straws on Its Legal Strategy: Deputy Campaign Manager “Clark asked for people to send to the campaign for investigation things they see on Twitter or on other websites.”

November 12, 2020, 5:56 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: At his campaign headquarters, many staffers were expected to be laid off in the coming days, two officials said, with some aides being notified on Thursday. Officials were also supposed to brief surrogates on legal strategy Thursday afternoon but… Continue reading

“No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread voting problems.”

November 12, 2020, 9:04 amfraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyRick Hasen

NYT ran this the other day, and worth linking now in light of the President raising these debunked claims on twitter.

“Trump insists he’ll win, but aides say he has no real plan to overturn results and talks of 2024 run”

November 12, 2020, 6:57 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: President Trump declared Wednesday on Twitter, “WE WILL WIN!”But, in fact, the president has no clear endgame to actually win the election — and, in an indication he may be starting to come to terms with his loss,… Continue reading

“Misinformation by a thousand cuts: Varied rigged election claims circulate”

November 11, 2020, 8:05 pmcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NBC News: For Trump supporters intent on finding it, proof of the president’s claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” is everywhere.For some, it’s in the videos: the one in which a Colorado man claiming to be a poll worker,… Continue reading

“In poll watcher affidavits, Trump campaign offers no evidence of fraud in Detroit ballot-counting”

November 11, 2020, 4:21 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Inside Detroit’s absentee-ballot-counting center, one Republican poll watcher complained that workers were wearing Black Lives Matter gear. She thought one of them — a “man of intimidating size” — had followed her too closely.Another Republican poll watcher complained… Continue reading