Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“Barr briefed Trump on investigation into discarded Pennsylvania ballots”

September 25, 2020, 11:33 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

ABC News: A Justice Department official told ABC News Friday that Attorney General William Barr personally briefed President Donald Trump about the DOJ’s investigation into a small number of ballots in Pennsylvania that were found to be discarded, prior to… Continue reading

“White House Attacks FBI Director For Playing Down Mail Voting Fraud”

September 25, 2020, 8:04 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Forbes: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows lambasted FBI Director Chris Wray on Friday for correctly playing down the extent of voting fraud and encouraged him to “get involved” with the Trump administration’s efforts to investigate a handful of… Continue reading

“Fact check: Trump Jr. touts baseless rigged-election claims to recruit ‘army’ for his dad”

September 23, 2020, 12:01 pmcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN: Donald Trump Jr. is touting baseless election-rigging claims in videos posted to Facebook and Twitter asking “able-bodied” people to join an election security “army” for his father.Facebook and Twitter affixed labels to the video pointing to accurate information… Continue reading

Greg Sargent: “Donald Trump Jr. is actively helping his father corrupt the election”

September 22, 2020, 1:49 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Greg Sargent sounding the alarm: Trumpworld’s various claims of fraud in mail balloting have been debunked by fact checkers, Republican elections officials, and even Trump’s own intelligence officials. But the president’s son has now explicitly declared that… Continue reading

The President’s Son Baselessly Suggests That Election Officials Will “add millions of fraudulent ballots that can cancel your vote and overturn the election.”

September 22, 2020, 10:49 amElection Meltdown, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

This is deeply disturbing, and has been part of one of my very greatest concerns about the integrity of the election: that Trump will be ahead in preliminarly vote totals (not including millions of mail-in ballots) in a state… Continue reading

“Fact check: Echoing Trump, Barr misleads on voter fraud to attack expanded vote-by-mail”

September 20, 2020, 9:20 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Jane Timm for NBC News.

“Barr’s undermining of the election is downright dangerous”

September 17, 2020, 10:25 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

I have written this oped for CNN. It begins: By repeating false and misleading statements about the potential for voter fraud and post-election violence, Attorney General William Barr has stepped out of his role as the nation’s chief law enforcement… Continue reading

Federal District Court Rips Louisiana for Rolling Back Voting During Pandemic without a “Scintilla” of Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud

September 16, 2020, 4:28 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

From the opinion: Even under this standard, Defendants’ evidence is woefully inadequate. First, they offer not a scintilla of evidence of fraud associated with voting by mail in Louisiana. Strikingly absent is even a hint of fraud in the… Continue reading

There He Goes Again Dep’t: AG Barr Raising Wild and Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud

September 15, 2020, 2:06 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Dangerous: It is with a heavy heart that I must announce Bill Barr is at it again. https://t.co/A9Nefcwuq8 pic.twitter.com/U0JsHVipvX— Matt Ford (@fordm) September 15, 2020

von Spakovsky Mischief: “No Democrats Allowed: A Conservative Lawyer Holds Secret Voter Fraud Meetings With State Election Officials”

September 15, 2020, 11:29 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

ProPublica: Starting in early spring, as the coronavirus took hold, a conservative lawyer at the forefront of raising alarms about voting by mail held multiple private briefings exclusively for Republican state election officials, according to previously unreported public records.The… Continue reading

“Trump just repeated his ugliest claim about the election. Why isn’t it bigger news?”

September 15, 2020, 10:42 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Greg Sargent: Appearing on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning, President Trump again told his supporters to believe that if the election doesn’t deliver the result they want, the outcome is inherently illegitimate — that there are no democratically legitimate… Continue reading

Republican EAC Commissioners Speaking on Zoom Call Organized by “Lawyers Democracy Fund” “to Analyze Effects of Vote-By-Mail Litigation in PA, IA, WI, and Across US”

September 14, 2020, 3:36 pmElection Assistance Commission, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

This seems worthy of a deeper dive, particularly what Christy McCormick and Don Palmer should be saying about this topic: Lawyers Democracy Fund (calling itself “LDF”–hmm) seems to have a lot of overlap with RNLA and Honest Elections Project.

“‘A huge risk’: Trump’s allies can’t sway him on mail-in voting”

September 12, 2020, 12:53 pmabsentee ballots, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: For a few weeks, Donald Trump’s advisers had seemingly gotten through to him — the president was finally encouraging his supporters to vote by mail, at least some of the time.On-message Trump didn’t last long. He recently appeared… Continue reading

“Fact-checking William Barr: Is your vote no longer secret with mail-in ballots?”

September 11, 2020, 3:33 pmabsentee ballots, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN: Attorney General William Barr has become one of the staunchest supporters of the President’s campaign against mail-in voting. Speaking in Phoenix on Thursday, Barr continued to push false and negative narratives about mail-in voting.“There’s no more secret vote,… Continue reading

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