If Trump Were Allowed Back on Twitter, He Would Continue to Falsely Claim the Election Was Stolen and Undermine Election Integrity
Here’s the statement he issued on Good Friday:
Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad
Politifact Rates as “Mostly False” Statement That Michigan election bills are “designed to make it easier for people to vote.”
“Dominion Voting Systems accuses ex-Michigan senator of ‘disinformation campaign'”
Detroit News:
Dominion Voting Systems is demanding that Patrick Colbeck, a former Michigan lawmaker, retract “false claims” he’s been making about the company in PowerPoint presentations.Dominion sent Colbeck, who’s from Canton, a letter on Friday, according to a document obtained… Continue reading
Brennan Center: Number of Suppressive Voting Bills Up to 361; 5 Laws Already Enacted
New roundup:
In a backlash to 2020’s historic voter turnout, and under the pretense of responding to baseless and racist allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities, state lawmakers have introduced a startling number of bills to curb the vote.… Continue reading
“Arizona Senate hires a ‘Stop the Steal’ advocate to lead 2020 election audit”
AZ Mirror:
The audit team that Senate President Karen Fann selected to examine the 2020 general election in Maricopa County will be led by a company owned by an advocate of the “Stop the Steal” movement who repeatedly alleged on… Continue reading
“The bogus claim that Democrats seek to register ‘illegal aliens’ to vote” (Heritage Earns 4 Pinocchios)
WaPo Fact Checker:
In this ad, Heritage Action has taken a somewhat remote possibility that undocumented immigrants would be registered as voters under AVR and turned it into a Democrat desire — that they “want to register illegal aliens.”First of… Continue reading
“Former Trump adviser takes prominent role in voting battle”
AP:
A GOP lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump on his campaign to overturn the 2020 election results is now playing a central role coordinating the Republican effort to tighten voting laws around the country.Cleta Mitchell, a longtime Republican… Continue reading
“Republicans set to quiz tech CEOs on election misinformation tweeted #StopTheSteal themselves”
WaPo:
House Democrats seeking to drill down on the spread of election fraud falsehoods on social media in advance of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot need to look no further than some of their Republican colleagues.A Washington Post analysis… Continue reading
“G.O.P. and Allies Draft ‘Best Practices’ for Restricting Voting”
NYT:
In late January, a small group of dedicated volunteers from the conservative Heritage Action for America met with Republican legislators in Georgia, delivering a letter containing detailed proposals for rolling back access to voting. Within days, bills to restrict… Continue reading
“Trump’s Former Lawyer Now Argues ‘No Reasonable Person’ Would Believe Her Voter Fraud Lies Were ‘Fact’; Powell is facing billion-dollar lawsuits after accusing voting technology companies of rigging the election”
Zoe Tillman for BuzzFeed:
Sidney Powell argued Monday that she couldn’t be sued for defamation for repeatedly promoting false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being rigged because “no reasonable person would” believe that her comments “were truly statements of… Continue reading
“Trump looks to take down Raffensperger in Georgia; The former president is expected to endorse Rep. Jody Hice, who supported Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, against the Georgia secretary of state.”
Politico:
Former President Donald Trump is expected to endorse Rep. Jody Hice in a campaign to unseat Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in next year’s Republican primary, according to three people familiar with Trump’s decision.Trump publicly seethed about… Continue reading
“‘An all-hands moment’: GOP rallies behind voting limits”
AP:
In an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights.Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” he claimed,… Continue reading
“In Restricting Early Voting, the Right Sees a New ‘Center of Gravity’”
NYT:
For more than a decade, the Susan B. Anthony List and the American Principles Project have pursued cultural and policy priorities from the social conservative playbook, backing laws to ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat could be detected and… Continue reading
“US intelligence report says election fraud claims ‘will almost certainly’ spur more violence by domestic extremists”
CNN:
US intelligence agencies believe that “narratives of fraud in the recent general election” and “the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the US Capitol” will “almost certainly” spur domestic extremists to try to engage in additional acts of… Continue reading