Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“Trump allies seek to co-opt coming election-security case to bolster 2020 lie”

January 7, 2024, 12:44 pmfraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyRick Hasen

WaPo must-read: Mike Lindell, the flamboyant pillow magnate, has spent millions promoting the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump — a claim that has been roundly rejected by cybersecurity experts, government officials and numerous courts. But… Continue reading

“Trump Signals an Election Year Full of Falsehoods on Jan. 6 and Democracy”

January 7, 2024, 12:18 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Rarely in American politics has a leading presidential candidate made such grave accusations about a rival: warning that he is willing to violate the Constitution. Claiming that he is eager to persecute political rivals. Calling him a dire threat… Continue reading

“Trump lawyers’ doozy of a filing on voter fraud”

January 3, 2024, 1:41 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Aaron Blake for WaPo: Prosecutors have repeatedly described Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in 2020 as effectively manufacturing a pretense for illegally overturning the election. Special counsel Jack Smith said in his indictment of the former president that… Continue reading

“Mark Harris Is Not Asking For Forgiveness”

January 3, 2024, 10:32 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

The Assembly: In late 2018 and early 2019, Mark Harris was an almost-congressman from North Carolina. Harris had walked away from pastoring his Charlotte megachurch to pursue a dream of serving in the U.S. House. He knocked off an incumbent… Continue reading

“A right-wing tale of Michigan election fraud had it all – except proof”

January 3, 2024, 7:06 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The story had all the elements of a blockbuster crime saga: burner phones, semiautomatic weapons, silencers and bags of prepaid cash cards. “NOW WE HAVE PROOF!” blared the headline on the right-wing websiteGateway Pundit. “Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered… Continue reading

“Trump paid me to find voter fraud. Then he lied after I found 2020 election wasn’t stolen.”

January 2, 2024, 8:08 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Ken Block USA Today oped: Can a steady diet of lies and innuendo overcome the truth? In November 2020, former President Donald Trump asserted that voter fraud had altered the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The day after the election,… Continue reading

West Virginia Secretary of State and Gubernatorial Candidate Mac Warner Says 2020 Election was “Stolen” Because of . . . Hunter Biden Laptop and Discredited Version of Independent State Legislature Theory

December 28, 2023, 6:22 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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“Defending his 2020 fraud claims, Trump turns to fringe Jan. 6 theories”

December 4, 2023, 9:07 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Ever since he was indicted on charges of interfering in the 2020 election results, Donald Trump has relished the chance to use the case in Washington as a venue to air his baseless claims of fraud. Now he is… Continue reading

“Eligible voters are being swept up in conservative activists’ efforts to purge voter rolls”

December 4, 2023, 2:16 pmfraudulent fraud squad, voter registrationRick Hasen

CBS News: Voters eligible to cast ballots are already being swept up in a grassroots effort to purge the nation’s registration rolls ahead of the 2024 presidential election, a CBS News investigation has found. Fueled by doubts about the… Continue reading

“Kari Lake digs in on ‘rigged’ election claims in court despite softer campaign rhetoric”

November 22, 2023, 7:02 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: Republican Kari Lake is attempting a rebrand as she ramps up her campaign for U.S. Senate, even as she continues to litigate her 2022 loss in Arizona’s governor’s race. In recent weeks, the conservative firebrand has extended olive … Continue reading

“Trump and Bolsonaro Claimed Fraud. Now an Argentine Candidate Is, Too.”

November 17, 2023, 7:51 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian economist, could be elected Argentina’s president on Sunday. If he is not, he has already pointed to fraud.

“Meta Allows Ads Claiming Rigged 2020 Election on Facebook, Instagram”

November 15, 2023, 6:43 amcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WSJ: Meta Platforms will let political ads on Facebook and Instagram question the legitimacy of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, one of several changes the social-media company and other platforms have made to loosen constraints on campaign advertising for… Continue reading

John Eastman Claims, Without Evidence, That a Cover Up is Preventing the Production of More Evidence of Voter Fraud from 2020 Election

November 6, 2023, 7:20 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

From a “60 Minutes” interview: Scott Pelley: You said 2500 convicts, the investigation found four. You said 10,000 dead voters, the investigation found four. It doesn’t seem like you knew what you were talking about. John Eastman: You’ve now mischaracterized… Continue reading

“A novel defense in Trump’s Georgia case: The 2020 election really was stolen”

November 3, 2023, 11:59 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Lawyers for one of those defendants, Harrison Floyd, appeared in court Friday morning to argue that their client is entitled to thousands of pages of election records from Fulton County and the Georgia secretary of state. “They opened… Continue reading