Since he lost in 2020, former President Trump has repeatedly and falsely alleged that the election was rigged, stolen from him. Millions of his adherents believe him. Sowing disbelief in the fundamental fairness of the nation’s voting system may be Trump’s greatest crime, for which he will never be prosecuted. It is a clear violation of his oath of office, in which he solemnly swore that he would “”to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
But the Washington Post obtained a secret study commissioned by Trump to determine the scope of any election fraud. The study did not confirm the claims Trump made in public. The voter fraud discovered by his team could not verify his wild claims.
When Donald Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in a now-infamous bid to overturn the 2020 election, he alleged that thousands of dead people had voted in the state.
“So dead people voted, and I think the number is close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number, and a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters,” he said, without citing his study.
But a report commissioned by his own campaign dated one day prior told a different story: Researchers paid by Trump’s team had “high confidence” of only nine dead voters in Fulton County, defined as ballots that may have been cast by someone else in the name of a deceased person. They believed there was a “potential statewide exposure” of 23 such votes across the Peach State — or 4,977 fewer than the “minimum” Trump claimed.In a separate failed bid to overturn the results in Nevada, Trump’s lawyers said in a court filing that 1,506 ballots were cast in the names of dead people and 42,284 voted twice. Trump lost the Silver State by about 33,000 votes.
The researchers paid by Trump’s team had “high confidence” that 12 ballots were cast in the names of deceased people in Clark County, Nev., and believed the “high end potential exposure” was 20 voters statewide — some 1,486 fewer than Trump’s lawyers said.
According to their research, the “low end potential exposure” of double voters was 45, while the “high end potential exposure” was 9,063. The judge tossed the Nevada case even as Trump continued to claim he won the state.
Are there penalties for lying?
Are there consequences for undermining public confidence in the democratic process of selecting those who govern us?
How do we hold accountable a president who violates his oath of office?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I doubt that this will change many MAGA RINO minds.
They do not care what the truth is.
The only thing they want is their Putin loving, Racist President Traitor Trump in the White House, because the Traitor loves Putin and is a revisit.
Hard core MAGA RINOs don’t care that the Traitor is a serial liar, a misogynist, an alleged rapist and child molester, who may have had one 12-year old girl murdered to shut her up, and a lifelong crook.
At least one media outlet believes that arresting Trump will help his campaign. Man, he’s badass!
“The fate of humanity depends upon if Politics finally becomes comfortable to take every life as sacred, or if the whore decides to continue to go on the street to service anything that is not. The lady must decide.” (“Der Schiksal der Menschen wird davon abhängen, ob sich die Politik endlich bequemt, das Leben eines jeden heilig zu nehmen, oder ob die Hure weiterhin für jene auf die Straße geht, denen nichts heilig ist. Die Dame muß sich entscheiden.”),
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Of course he knew. So did all his top advisers. So did the talking heads at Fox.
They ALL knew. They ALL lied, repeatedly. They fomented an insurrection and sedition.
They are all traitors to the Constitution and the American Republic.
So did the 141 Repugnican Senators and Representatives who voted NOT to confirm the ballots from the states AFTER the insurrection.
An entire party made up of seditionists attempting to overthrow democracy
Amazing! These Republicans had just emerged from hiding in a secure room. They saw garbage strewn around the Capitol. They heard the chants of “Hang Mike Pence!” And they still bowed to Trump, the leader of the attack on their lives! Why don’t we have a psychiatrist commenting here?
The only explanation for Republicans voting as they did is fear: they feared loss of power, their power in their party. I hear Adrent warming up.
The only cases I have heard of actual voter fraud were committed by GOP voters. I mean acts of deliberate, voting for someone else, voter fraud. Not accidentally voted when ineligible because my governor set up gotcha campaigns for political stunts, but knowingly voting twice or in someone’s stead.
Being delusional means never having to say you’re sorry.
Haaaa!!!! OMG. Hilarious.
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Good one.
Trump posts on Pravda, uh Truth (LOL), Social on Saturday:
“OUR NATION IS NOW THIRD WORLD & DYING,” Trump writes. “THE AMERICAN DREAM IS DEAD! THE RADICAL LEFT ANARCHISTS HAVE STOLLEN OUR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND WITH IT, THE HEART OF OUR COUNTRY. AMERICAN PATRIOTS ARE BEING ARRESTED & HELD IN CAPTIVITY LIKE ANIMALS, WHILE CRIMINALS & LEFTIST THUGS ARE ALLOWED TO ROAM THE STREETS, KILLING & BURNING WITH NO RETRIBUTION. MILLIONS ARE FLOODING THROUGH OUR OPEN BOARDERS, MANY FROM PRISONS & MENTAL INSTITUTIONS. CRIME & INFLATION ARE DESTROYING OUR VERY WAY OF LIFE.”
“NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE THAT, WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”
I suspect that mechanisms are in operation behind the scenes, in the Old Boy network, to get Trump out of the competition for the Repugnican nomination ASAP because the smarter (yes, I know, we’re talking about relative intelligence here) and richer Pugs know that if Trump gets the nod, they lose, again. No more using the Orange Idiot to rubber stamp environmental degradation, deregulation of everything, tax cuts for the wealthy, etc.
And no Orange Idiot Mini-Me (DeSantis) to take his place.
This man is not well.
Make sure to get a copy of Trump’s new book,
How to Age Disgracefully
People would really like to hear more from Trump about the “stollen” election.
Everyday I come to your page and take an extra dose of antacid( smiley face ) .
Here is some pay back something I and many suspected for over 43 years . Reagan’s name should be ripped from the National Airport.
“It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.”
What Lofgren may have understated in 2011 was that it should have been obvious from the 1960s on. We learned about Nixon scuttling the peace talks in 68. We could only speculate about Reagan and the Hostage crisis.
If Putin gets thrown out a window we may yet see the Piss Tape some day.
Joel,
I just read that story. It is well documented. Reagan’s emissaries went to the Middle East to tell the Iranians not to release hostages. That scuttled Carter’s chances and helped elect Reagan.
Disgraceful.