It takes time for deliberative processes to play out, but signs point to judges cracking down on Trump lawyers who filed baseless lawsuits and lied to courts (read story here), and that’s a good and necessary thing. Rudy Guiliani, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood, among others, should not come out [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
July 18th, 2021 - 12:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
GOP “auditor” revives a false assertion about Arizona ballots
Tell people what they want to believe, and they’ll believe it. From day one, the Arizona Senate GOP’s sham “audit” of 2020 Maricopa ballots was always about trying to give legitimacy for false election conspiracy theories. To conduct the “audit,” they passed over [...]
July 15th, 2021 - 5:59 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
How to get your bail revoked in one easy step
“An accused Capitol rioter’s bail was revoked by a judge on Thursday after allegedly leaving lewd and rambling voicemails for his probation officer,” The Hill reported on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Read story here. The probation officer testified that Brandon Fellows, 27, who is unde[...]
Top general likened Trump to Hitler
Comparing with Hitler has long been taboo in American politics, and for good reasons. Nazism, the Holocaust, and World War 2 were uniquely evil. And when the Hitler analogy is used, it’s often misused, sometimes ludicrously as when rightwing provocateur Marjorie Taylor Greene recently [...]
The legal consequences of volunteering to be the butt of a joke
Back in 2018, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen made a fool of notorious Alabama politician Roy Moore. Cohen invited Moore to appear on his TV show. Moore took the bait. He even signed a contract agreeing, buried in so many obfuscating legal phrases, to be made a fool of. “During the segment, Cohen p[...]
July 10th, 2021 - 5:15 pm § in News Media, Politics
When impersonating the media isn’t a good idea
“A Southern California man has been arrested after being charged with joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol while trying to impersonate a member of the media,” NBC News reported on Saturday, July 10, 2021 (read story here). “Matthew Thomas Purse, 45, was arrested in Irvine[...]
July 3rd, 2021 - 3:32 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Public university lets Michael Flynn keep honorary degree
“The University of Rhode Island decided not to revoke an honorary degree bestowed upon Michael Flynn,” Military.com reported on June 24, 2021 (story here). Flynn, who was born in Rhode Island and grew up there, was a juvenile delinquent and a poor student in college, but graduated from U[...]
July 2nd, 2021 - 10:04 pm § in Politics
Arizona GOP’s election tampering
“Former President Trump, Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward and Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani tried to contact Maricopa County supervisors weeks after the 2020 election in an effort to get the county to change its election results,” The Hill reported (here) on Friday, July 2, 2021 ([...]
June 27th, 2021 - 10:08 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Bill Barr tries to salvage his reputation
Bill Barr, whose official title was “Attorney General of the United States,” but who actually acted as Trump’s personal attorney and fixer, apparently doesn’t want to be remembered as a subversive who tried to overthrow our government. With an eye on what’s happening to[...]
A “peaceful” riot
Many Republicans, with the help of enablers like Fox News, have tried to falsely portray the Capitol riot as a peaceful protest, and even compared the rioters to “tourists”. Here’s one of those so-called “peaceful” protesters: “Forty-three-year-old Shane Jason Woo[...]