Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“After Record Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote”

January 31, 2021, 8:54 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Michael Wines for the NYT: In Georgia, Arizona and other states won by President Biden, some leading Republicans stood up in November to make what, in any other year, would be an unremarkable statement: The race is over. And we… Continue reading

“Trump raised $31.5 million in the weeks after Election Day for his new leadership PAC, filing shows”

January 31, 2021, 8:38 pmcampaign finance, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Former president Donald Trump’s new political action committee raised $31.5 million in the weeks after Election Day through a flurry of fundraising appeals purporting to fight election fraud and help Republicans maintain their majority in the Senate, new filings… Continue reading

TPM Offers Great Narrative Description of Trump and His Allies’ Months-Long Lies About Voter Fraud in An Attempt to Steal the 2020 Election

January 27, 2021, 9:10 amchicanery, Election Meltdown, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

This from Tierney Sneed and Matt Shuham is a must-read.

Blockbuster WSJ Report: “Trump Pressed Justice Department to Go Directly to Supreme Court to Overturn Election Results”

January 25, 2021, 8:41 amchicanery, Department of Justice, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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.”

January 25, 2021, 8:36 amchicanery, Department of Justice, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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”

January 25, 2021, 8:26 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

CBS News reports.

“Pennsylvania Lawmaker Played Key Role in Trump’s Plot to Oust Acting Attorney General”

January 25, 2021, 8:23 amchicanery, Election Meltdown, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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”

January 25, 2021, 7:45 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

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

January 22, 2021, 5:08 pmchicanery, Department of Justice, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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

January 21, 2021, 8:22 amcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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”

January 18, 2021, 12:28 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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

January 18, 2021, 9:37 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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”

January 17, 2021, 3:08 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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”

January 13, 2021, 11:00 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

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

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