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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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
“In wake of 2020 election, state GOP lawmakers aim to change election laws”
“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
“State Republicans push new voting restrictions after Trump’s loss”
Zach Montellaro for Politico:
Republican legislators across the country are preparing a slew of new voting restrictions in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s defeat.Georgia will be the focal point of the GOP push to change state election laws,… 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
“‘They Have Not Legitimately Won’: Pro-Trump Media Keeps the Disinformation Flowing
NYT:
Forgoing any appeals for healing or reflection, right-wing media organizations that spread former President Donald J. Trump’s distortions about the 2020 election continued on Wednesday to push conspiracy theories about large-scale fraud, with some predicting more political conflict in… Continue reading
“Dominion Voting Systems threatens to sue Mike Lindell, MyPillow C.E.O., over false claims”
NYT:
Officials with Dominion Voting Systems has sent Mike Lindell, the C.E.O. of MyPillow, a legal letter warning of pending litigation over his baseless claims of widespread fraud involving their machines.“You have positioned yourself as a prominent leader of the… 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
“Dark-money GOP fund funneled millions of dollars to groups that pushed voter fraud claims”
CNBC:
A dark-money group used by Republican donors funneled millions of dollars toward high-profile conservative organizations that pushed and in some cases investigated claims of election fraud either before or after Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in November.Many of… Continue reading
“First it was ‘fraud,’ then they just didn’t like the rules: How Pa. Republicans justified trying to overturn an election”
Philly Inquirer:
Yet the congressmen and others from Pennsylvania nevertheless spent months supporting the claim that widespread fraud, procedural decisions, or irregularities undermined the integrity of the election, lending their authority to the argument that the very foundation of… Continue reading
“Supreme Court won’t fast-track Trump challenges to election results”
WaPo:
As expected, the Supreme Court refused Monday to fast-track a batch of challenges to the presidential election filed by President Trump and his allies.The rejections came without comment or noted dissent, and were formal notifications of what already… Continue reading