Thomas Webster, 56, in better days, was a U.S. Marine and New York City police officer. He should’ve known better. What was he thinking? But caught up in MAGA madness, he went to D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, to storm the Capitol. He even took a gun with him. A gun! What did he plan to […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
August 31st, 2022 - 9:50 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
This lowlife has a right to take the Fifth and probably needs to
“Former Trump lawyer John Eastman invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and cited attorney-client privilege Wednesday when he appeared before a Fulton County grand jury investigating attempts to influence the 2020 election in Georgia,” NBC News reported on Wednesda[...]
Judge makes GOPers pay Democrat’s legal expenses for B.S. lawsuit
Criminal and civil penalties, where justified and warranted, are one of the best tools available for protecting our democracy. Right now, federal prosecutions of Capitol rioters are getting the most attention. Prosecutors worked through the small fry first, who mostly got fines and probation (a few [...]
August 29th, 2022 - 6:18 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
“Stop the Steal” organizer whines about legal bills
Ali Alexander (photo, left; bio here), a rightwing activist, helped incite the Capitol riot, but didn’t participate and wasn’t arrested. However, he’s been hauled before the House committee investigating the riot, a grand jury investigating fake electors, is being sued by cops inju[...]
August 26th, 2022 - 9:50 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Judge upholds Arizona’s use of voting machines
The GOP nominees for Arizona governor and secretary of state, both of whom baselessly claim the 2020 election was stolen, and face uphill battles to win in November, lost their federal lawsuit to compel Arizona to count ballots by hand. (See story here.) What they tried to do in court, Republicans i[...]
Capitol rioter gets 4 years for beating cop with flagpole
Howard Richardson, 72, of Pennsylvania was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for repeatedly striking a Metro police officer with a flagpole until it broke during the Capitol riot (read story here). Richardson is a Vietnam veteran and his son his a police officer. On that basis, apparently, he[...]
Why Republicans think voting fraud is rampant
I suspect people who go around sawing off catalytic converters probably install protective shields on their own cars because they’re afraid theirs will be stolen, too. Abraham Hamadeh, 31, is the GOP candidate for Arizona attorney general. He doesn’t trust elections, and for a perfectly [...]
Florida voting police nab 20 vote thieves!
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’s new “Office of Election Crimes and Security” has identified 20 cases of suspected voting fraud since going into business on July 1, The Hill reported on Wednesday, August 18, 2022 (read story here). All of the cases are from Palm Beach, Broward, and [...]
August 12th, 2022 - 4:15 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Wisconsin GOP legislative leader ends partisan “audit” of 2020 election by election denier
“Wisconsin’s Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Friday fired the conservative former state supreme court justice he hired last year to investigate fraud in the 2020 election, ending a controversial probe that drew bipartisan criticism,” CNN reported on Friday, August 12, 2022 (read stor[...]
Arizona GOPers’ obsession with 2020 is alive and well
Election denialism and conspiracy theories have taken root in Arizona like nowhere else. Two years later, halfway through President Biden’s term, Arizona Republicans are still obsessed and driven by election results no serious person would question. Is the desert sun baking their brains? Anyon[...]