Rioting, phoned death threats to election workers, and sham audits didn’t work, so now they want to run elections themselves. And they have their own ideas about what a “fair election” is. For example, in Ohio, former GOP legislator John Adams is running for secretary of state, the[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
April 15th, 2022 - 12:43 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Why Sen. Lee and Rep. Roy realized Trump’s coup attempt was illegal
Trying to understand Republicans is like an oceanographer peering at the water’s surface and trying to figure out what’s beneath it. I’ll give it a try. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is a hard-right conservative who represents a deep-red state. He’s also a lawyer, and former assistant[...]
2 states, 2 voter fraud prosecutions
Charles Franklin Barnes Jr., 64 (left), and Jay Richard Ketcik (right), 63, are white, male, Republican, and live in a notoriously pro-Trump Florida retirement community. Both intentionally voted multiple times in the 2020 election. They got pretrial diversion, which means their records will be wipe[...]
April 10th, 2022 - 3:15 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
The big squeeze
Mark Brnovich (photo, left) is Arizona’s ambitious GOP attorney general who badly wants to be a U.S. senator. To get there he has to suck up to Trump’s fans, which requires sucking up to Trump, who wants him to produce “evidence” that Trump won Arizona in 2020. The official v[...]
April 8th, 2022 - 4:55 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
How Don Trump Jr. sees elections
“Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump’s eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that ‘we have operational control’ to ensure his father would get a second term, with Republican majorities in the [...]
April 7th, 2022 - 12:07 am § in Politics
Another GOP investigation finds no Arizona voting fraud
An investigation by Arizona AG Mark Brnovich, a Republican, has “found no evidence of widespread voter fraud or irregularities associated with the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County,” NBC News reported on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 (read story here). Biden won the state by 10,45[...]
April 6th, 2022 - 11:06 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Fake Trump elector loses city council re-election bid
Voters fired Kelly Ruh (photo, left), a Republican alderwoman in Wisconsin who participated in the Trump campaign’s attempt to replace legitimate Biden electors with fake electors, from the DePere city council on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 (read story here and watch video below). Ruh was beaten, 5[...]
Armed Capitol rioter gets 4 years
Lonnie Leroy Coffman, 72, of Falkville, Alabama (pop. 1,200), believed Trump’s “stolen election” lies. So he drove to Washington D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021 to do something, he wasn’t sure what, about it. He took with him “a handgun, a rifle, a shotgun, hundreds of rounds of a[...]
March 29th, 2022 - 8:36 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Clarence Thomas’ real scandal
This week, a federal judge who ordered the release of Jan. 6 emails wrote that Trump “more likely than not” engaged in criminal conduct when he tried to stop Congress’ certification of the 2022 election (see story here). Also this week, it emerged there’s a 7-hour gap in the [...]
March 25th, 2022 - 10:56 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Shouldn’t Thomas recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases?
Why bother to ask? He won’t, and there’s no way to make him. That’s the end of it. It’s not a closely-held secret that his wife, Ginni Thomas, is a hyper-partisan dickhead wrapped in rightwing conspiracy theories. She’s been that for a long time (see her profile here). [...]