"The myths are every bit as real to them as their certainty that everyone who protests against Trump is paid to do so (even though they secretly know he’s best but they hate America) and that LGBTQ people only exist because TV, movies, and the public schools are turning straight kids gay."
#Trump #Republicans #elections #voting #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories
/19
"President Trump is bringing back the most bizarre conspiracy theory for why he lost the 2020 election. It’s ItalyGate, which pins his loss to Joe Biden that year on an elaborate conspiracy in which Barack Obama and China teamed up to use Italian military satellites to zap the election away from him.
Trump boosted the idea this week in a series of posts on Truth Social."
~ Josh Kovensky
#Trump #Republicans #elections #voting #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories
/13
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2020s-most-insane-conspiracy-theory-italygate-returns
"The New York Times has reported that after the FBI’s seizure of 2020 election materials in Fulton County, Donald Trump held an unusually direct phone call with frontline FBI agents—brokered by Tulsi Gabbard—in which he questioned and praised investigators, a move widely criticized by former officials and Democrats" (continued in /15)
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Republicans #elections #voting #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #TulsiGabbard
/14
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-suggest-taking-over-voting
(continued from /14)
"as a sharp break from norms that risks politicizing law enforcement, undermining DOJ and FBI independence, and bolstering claims of improper presidential involvement in a criminal investigation tied to Trump’s false 2020 election fraud claims."
#Trump #Republicans #elections #voting #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #TulsiGabbard
/15
"The forces of democratic action are simply stronger than the criminal ones in the Trump White House. But nothing can be taken for granted. For that strength to be meaningful and decisive, it will have to be mobilized."
Josh Marshall
"It wasn’t a federal takeover of voting per se, but a 'Republican' one. The strange reference to '15' states makes no sense on its face, but Trump has a track record of telegraphing moves in advance and of seizing on specific details from cockamamie conspiracies, plans, and schemes that only become clear in retrospect."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Republicans #elections #voting #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories
/17
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/judge-smacks-down-kristi-noem-in
"Trump and his supporters are completely immune to evidence when it comes to the twin myths of voter fraud in general, and of widespread voting by non-citizens."
~ Evan Hurst
#Trump #Republicans #elections #voting #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories
/18
https://www.wonkette.com/p/donald-trump-says-he-wants-to-seize
