“A year ago Philadelphia’s vote count decided the presidency, but also inspired conspiracies that live on today”
Jonathan Tamari for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad
“Steve Bannon’s popular podcast is a ‘dangerous’ fantasyland of election lies”
Daniel Dale for CNN:
Steve Bannon’s aggressive campaign to undermine American democracy didn’t stop on January 6.Bannon, a bellicose right-wing nationalist who served as White House chief strategist under President Donald Trump in 2017, is fighting a subpoena from… Continue reading
“Dane County judge orders Wisconsin Republicans to turn over records related to election review”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
A Dane County judge on Friday ordered Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to turn over records within 10 days about a secretive review of the 2020 election that Republicans have been conducting since this summer.Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn ruled… Continue reading
“Deposition video shows Trump allies under oath discussing debunked election fraud claims”
CNN:
Allies of former President Donald Trump testified under oath that they had done little to verify debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election before spreading them on the national stage, according to tapes of their depositions obtained… Continue reading
“No evidence for systematic voter fraud: A guide to statistical claims about the 2020 election”
New article in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences by Andrew Eggers, Haritz Garro, and Justin Grimmer. Abstract:
After the 2020 US presidential election Donald Trump refused to concede, alleging widespread and unparalleled voter fraud. Trump’s supporters… Continue reading
“Smartmatic Sues Newsmax and One America News Network, Claiming Defamation”
NYT:
The legal battle against disinformation from right-wing media outlets is expanding.Smartmatic, an election technology firm that became a target of pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential race, sued Newsmax and One America News Network on Wednesday for defamation,… Continue reading
“Trump and Republicans haven’t made a peep about voter fraud in Virginia since Glenn Youngkin won”
Insider:
On Monday, former President Donald Trump said he was “not a believer in the integrity of Virginia’s elections.”The next day, he took credit for Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s win in the state. Following Trump’s lead, other Republicans and… Continue reading
In Secretly Recorded Video, Eastman Proposes Primarying “Spineless” State Legislators Who Refused to Submit a Second Slate of Electors to Help Trump Based on False Claims of Fraud
More from the hidden camera video:
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1454108075225276425?s=20
John Eastman, Last Seen Disavowing His Own Memo, Reaffirms Support for His Own Legal Reasoning on Hidden Camera; Says Mike Pence Didn’t Follow His Advice Because He’s an “Establishment” Republican
Watch here:
EXCLUSIVE: Author of Jan 6 coup memo John Eastman told us Mike Pence didn't take his solid legal advice & overturn the election bc Pence is "an establishment guy"(He previously told @NRO the memo was not “viable” and… Continue reading
“GOP uses voters to push election reforms in unlikely states”
AP:
Republicans have succeeded this year in passing a range of voting restrictions in states they control politically, from Georgia to Iowa to Texas. They’re not stopping there.Republicans in at least four states where Democrats control the governor’s office,… Continue reading
“Internal Alarm, Public Shrugs: Facebook’s Employees Dissect Its Election Role; Company documents show that the social network’s employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies before and after the contested November vote.”
NYT:
Sixteen months before last November’s presidential election, a researcher at Facebook described an alarming development. She was getting content about the conspiracy theory QAnon within a week of opening an experimental account, she wrote in an internal report.On… Continue reading
“Ahead of Jan. 6, Willard hotel in downtown D.C. was a Trump team ‘command center’ for effort to deny Biden the presidency”
WaPo:
They called it the “command center,” a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal lieutenants were working day and night with… Continue reading
John Eastman, in National Review Interview, Tries to Distance Himself from His Own Memo Suggesting How VP Pence Could Steal the Election for Trump, Repudiates Its Major Points
Signs that Eastman is getting increasingly desperate to distance himself from his false claims that the election was stolen from Trump and that VP Pence could unilaterally steal it back for him when Congress was supposed to confirm the Electoral… Continue reading
True the Vote Endgame: Trying to Prove Voter Fraud with Cell Phone Data Near Drop Boxes
True the Vote had been hinting in its email blasts of some major proof of fraud, and now we know what they have is just weak and silly. See here:
New – last month, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation… Continue reading