June 3, 2021 12:19 p.m.
Arizona’s politicized audit of its largest county’s 2020 election results is a “model” for other states, a Pennsylvania state senator told Trump ally Steve Bannon Wednesday after touring the Arizona operation.
“I think this is really the model, in the future, for any elections that might be in dispute,” State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) said after he took a “fact-finding mission” to Arizona with two other Pennsylvania legislators.
Mastriano also said he “absolutely” saw the Arizona audit as a model to examine the 2020 election results, and added later: “Arizona is here setting a new standard.”
The senator has long amplified Trump’s lies that the election was stolen, including by holding a hearing in November, in which Trump (by phone) complained about the long list of federal judges who’d laughed his claims out of court. Rudy Giuliani appeared in person to urge state legislators to throw out nearly 700,000 votes
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Former President and habitual liar Donald Trump has reportedly been telling friends and associates that he’ll be reinstated as president in August.
According to a tweet from
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, Trump is telling those around him that he expects to be reinstated as president by August.
Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn’t how it works but simply sharing the information). https://t.co/kaXSXKnpF0
According to Haberman, Trump’s declaration came after his former national security adviser Michael Flynn expressed support for a coup attempt in the U.S.
A president who loses an election cannot be “reinstated.”
If that person has only served one term, like Donald Trump, he can run again for that office. But there is no provision in the U.S. Constitution to remove a president who has won the election and replace him with someone who has lost.
That doesn’t happen in democratic republics.
That happens in banana republics.
But that, apparently, is what Trump wants.
Stage a coup to stay out of jail?
According to The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, the former president has been telling people that he expects to be “reinstated” this summer.
Rep. Paul Gosar’s outspoken support for the rioters who briefly occupied the U.S. Capitol building in a recent congressional hearing has reignited calls by some Democrats for a censure resolution.
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