“Former President Donald Trump commemorated Ashli Babbitt — the rioter fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer on Jan. 6 — in a prerecorded video to mark what would have been her 36th birthday,” Huffington Post reported on Monday, October 11, 2021 (read story here). Which is his p[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
October 7th, 2021 - 6:53 pm § in Politics
Grow up, Biggs!
“During a House hearing Thursday on the recent ‘audit’ of the 2020 election results in Arizona conducted by supporters of former President Donald Trump, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., sparred with Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., who refused to accept its results showing that Joe Biden won the[...]
October 4th, 2021 - 5:26 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
How much prison time will this Capitol rioter get?
“Robert Scott Palmer of Largo, Fla., was part of the crowd of rioters on Jan. 6,” The Hill says. Prosecutors say he was in “the front line of rioters confronting the officers” defending the building where members of Congress were certifying the 2020 election inside. Palmer, 53, R[...]
October 3rd, 2021 - 12:54 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The Guns of January
Of all the GOP’s lies enveloping the 2020 election, one of the most enduring is that the Capitol insurrection was a gun-free political protest. It was neither. It wasn’t a protest. The rioters’ own videos, reinforced by their social media posts and internal messaging, irrefutably d[...]
Idaho’s smackdown of an election conspiracy theory
The election conspiracies are absurd, and the people promoting them are crazy. It’s time to say so. Take, for example, Idaho, a deep-red state that voted 2-to-1 for Trump. That didn’t stop conspiracy promoters from claiming the vote tallies in all 44 counties were electronically manipula[...]
September 29th, 2021 - 4:45 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
45 days in jail for Capitol “tourists”
Derek Jancart and his buddy Erik Rau will spend 45 days in jail for trying to overthrow our government. Jancart, an Air Force veteran, “brought a gas mask and two-way radio to Washington in preparation for January 6,” CNN says, while Rau “brought Kevlar gloves and medical supplies.[...]
September 23rd, 2021 - 11:16 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Arizona GOP’s “audit” favors Biden
After spending $5.7 million of mostly-private money (Arizona taxpayers involuntarily contributed $150,000) on a highly partisan, non-binding “audit” of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results, a leaked draft report appears to explode the GOP’s election fraud myths, be[...]
September 23rd, 2021 - 3:15 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump demands Texas vote “audit”
He’s claiming that “fraud” and “irregularities” occurred in a state he easily won. (Read story here.) Really? Yes. “Despite my big win in Texas, I hear Texans want an election audit! You know your fellow Texans have big questions about the November 2020 Election,” T[...]
The great peril of Trumpism, and what we must do
The Constitution defines our system of government and protects our freedom only while we agree to abide by it. If we don’t, it’s a useless scrap of paper, and right now 4 in 10 Americans don’t consider themselves bound by it. We are in great peril of this thing called America falli[...]
September 20th, 2021 - 4:30 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump has it in for McConnell; can you guess why?
Trump is trying to recruit a Kentucky Republican to mount a primary challenge against Mitch McConnell (photo, left), and “has been busy making calls” to feel out whether there’s support for replacing him as GOP Senate leader, the Daily Mail said on Monday, September 20, 2021, (read[...]