All Things Trump: the story continues...

[Tero]

Fox and Trump take credit for Biden acting on border.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden- ... tion-nears

[rasetsu]

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[Tero]

That might reflect the election too. Republicans, with one voice, are the minority.

[Tero]

Court stops election fraudster case...due to election. Give him a new chance for 11 780 votes I guess.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics ... index.html

[Brian Peacock]

What's the best outcome for the US? Trump winning or Trump losing in November?

[L'Emmerdeur]

If the Republicans have their way, Trump will take office regardless. They're putting together a machine to ensure that outcome right now. Not by motivating voters to choose Trump, but by preparing various tactics to throw out a Biden victory. Because they know that any Biden victory will be the result of widespread fraud.

When former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he triggered a desperate attempt to remain in office that falsely claimed Democrats had engineered widespread voter fraud. This time around, he’ll lack the powers an incumbent has to use his office as weapon. No longer having those internal levers of power to pull, though, has only meant a shift in tactics from his allies, not in their overall strategy. And as his Election Day rematch against President Joe Biden approaches, the infrastructure being built to delegitimize a Trump loss is becoming increasingly obvious.

While unable to lean on the Department of Justice this time around, Trump is not entirely without institutional power at his disposal. Several states have filed charges against organizers and participants in the “fake electors” plot. In those plots, Republican presidential electors signed off on fraudulent Electoral College certificates that declared Trump the winner in their state. The goal was to cause enough chaos that Vice President Mike Pence would either throw out their state’s electoral votes or kick the can to state legislatures to hand Trump a win. Despite their criminal liability, several members of the plot have already been appointed as Electoral College members again or expressed a willingness to serve.

Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has been laying the groundwork to discredit a potential Biden win. I’ve previously written about the RNC’s renewed focus on “election integrity” efforts, following Trump’s orders to place their energy there rather traditional field programs to get voters to the polls. Axios recently reported that the RNC now “plans to hire more people for the [election integrity] operation than for any other department” ahead of the election, as it also aims “to recruit and deploy 100,000 volunteers, law students and lawyers to serve as poll watchers and observers.”

[source]

On a Monday in mid-March, the Wisconsin Republican Party gathered about 50 conservative activists on a Zoom call to train them in how to become poll workers, helping oversee and monitor the casting and counting of votes.

Heavily Democratic areas of the battleground state were a key focus. “Eau Claire, Madison, Milwaukee — that type,” Mike Hoffman, the state party’s election integrity director, said as he ticked off places being targeted.

“We’re keeping a close eye on you,” he recounted telling one city clerk, according to audio recordings of the party’s training sessions obtained by The New York Times.

The Wisconsin training sessions are a small part of an expansive operation announced on [April 19th 2024] by former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, which plan to dispatch more than 100,000 volunteers and lawyers to monitor and potentially challenge the electoral process in each battleground state. They will focus on every aspect of voting, including mail ballots, voting machines and post-Election Day recounts and audits.

The sprawling effort is rooted in Mr. Trump’s persistent false claims that Democrats cheated to win the 2020 election. His allies have helped turn that belief into Republican doctrine despite the overwhelming conclusion by Democratic and G.O.P. election officials, as well as federal and state judges, that no evidence of widespread fraud exists.

“Democrat tricks from 2020 won’t work this time,” Charlie Spies, the chief counsel of the R.N.C., pledged in a statement announcing the program. “In 2024, we’re going to beat the Democrats at their own game and the R.N.C. legal team will be working tirelessly to ensure that elections officials follow the rules in administering elections.”

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[Tero]

Better get Trump started on his public service job before the election.


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[JimC]

The US would be much better off with a neutral Electoral Commission, as in Australia...

[Tero]

We are not a country, for elections. We are just states.

[Brian Peacock]

Here's an idea. The candidate that gets the most votes nationally wins the general election.

[Tero]

We have amendments. We don't pass those unless it raises the salaries of congress.

[Tero]

Cartoon
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[Tero]

When you give the microphone to the wrong person. "Young girls with Jeffrey Epstein..." https://www.threads.net/@canteach/post/ ... 4B0f2a6HDA

[Tero]

Judge allowing third parties to testify why it was perfectly OK for Trump to ru. Off with a plane load of gov't documents.
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[Tero]

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