“Dozens of local and state Republican leaders who showed their loyalty to Donald Trump by casting fake electoral votes for him a year ago may now face prison time in return for that devotion,” Huffington Post reported on Thursday, January 27, 2022 (read story here). That’s because [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
January 26th, 2022 - 3:35 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Capitol riot defense: “Trump made me do it”
In a variation of “the devil made me do it,” Capitol rioters are trying to shift the blame to Trump. “Many of the defendants facing criminal charges for their role in the January 6 insurrection have tried to share blame with Trump or shift blame to him,” CNN says (here), but [...]
Oath Keepers armed themselves for war at the U.S. Capitol
“A day before the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, people from three different states wheeled cart after cart laden with weapons and ammunition through an otherwise unremarkable Comfort Inn Ballston hotel located in Virginia, just a stone’s throw from the Pentagon,” Military.com s[...]
January 23rd, 2022 - 10:58 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Special grand jury to investigate Trump’s Georgia election meddling
Read story here Lawyers for embattled attorney John Eastman told a federal judge he was “representing his client, Donald Trump,” when he concocted a nefarious scheme to derail the certification of the 2020 election. That story is here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
January 23rd, 2022 - 4:08 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Why the GOP’s fake electors are no joke
Two CNN reporters, Marshall Cohen and Zachary Cohen (not related), explain here. “After various election fraud lawsuits in these states failed, Giuliani and his team shifted their focus to January 6. The idea, as outlined in a memo written by conservative lawyer John Eastman, was for then-Vice[...]
January 22nd, 2022 - 2:37 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Did a Russian agent try to overthrow our election?
“Boris Epshteyn, an adviser for former President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, acknowledged Friday that he was part of the effort to prop up so-called ‘alternate electors’ to support Trump in key states,” CNN reported on Saturday, January 22, 2022 ([...]
Giuliani and Trump campaign were behind organized scheme to install fake electors
The media previously reported on a scheme to replace legitimate Biden electors with fake Trump electors. On January 20, 2022, CNN reported (here) that this scheme was organized and run by Rudy Guiliani and Trump campaign officials, who “were far more involved than previously known,” and [...]
January 19th, 2022 - 2:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
The difference between sedition and protest
Last week, federal prosecutors filed sedition conspiracy charges against 11 members of the Oath Keepers, including its leader. Oath Keepers is a rightwing armed militia group that participated in the Capitol riot intending to block certification of Biden’s election victory. Additional court fi[...]
January 18th, 2022 - 9:42 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump
When 2 + 2 = 6
Two plus two equals six in Douglas Frank’s election conspiracy math. Most of us don’t try to follow Einstein’s reasoning behind his general and special relativity theories, or work through his calculations. We take his word for it, based on his reputation and the support of other r[...]
I hope Stew Rhodes goes to prison
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers militia group, was indicted last week for seditious conspiracy. He could get 20 years. I hope he does. Rhodes, 56, is a Yale Law School graduate who practiced criminal law in Montana. He’s not a lawyer anymore; he was disbarred in 2015. Now it’[...]