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Donald Trump’s effort to overturn his loss in the 2020 election was a cocktail of equal parts ridiculousness and menace. On the one hand, a sitting president actively encouraged efforts to destroy American democracy including an attack on the US Capitol. On the other hand, the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference was a thing that happened.
So it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that, months after Joe Biden won the 2020 election and was sworn in as president, Trump loyalists in Arizona are engaged in the same kind of absurdist anti-democracy that drove the final weeks of Trump’s term in office by auditing all ballots cast in the state’s largest county.
Temporary workers are being hired to help pick up the pace of Senate Republicans ballot recount. Author: Brahm Resnik Updated: 1:09 PM MST May 5, 2021
PHOENIX The Arizona recount of last fall s presidential election is now poised to drag into the summer, after Senate Republicans had forecast wrapping it up in the next 10 days.
The recount s glacial pace over its first 10 days has forced the Republicans audit team to double the number of ballot counters, by hiring temporary workers.
Taxpayers won t have to foot the bill for the temps, according to the Senate audit s spokesman.
But the audit s major funding sources don t have to reveal who did pay the bill.
“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system,” tweeted Ms Cheney.
Mr Trump couldn’t help but hit back at Ms Cheney later on Monday, issuing yet another written statement. “She’ll never run in a Wyoming election again!” Mr Trump wrote, somewhat ominously.
On Friday right-wing news network Newsmax issued a public apology to Dominion Voting Systems employee Eric Coomer, and admitted it had “no evidence” of claims it made that he had manipulated voting machines.
Mr Coomer launched a defamation lawsuit last December against Newsmax, One America News Network, OANN correspondent Chanel Rion, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and others, for claims they made against him after the election.
NEW YORK: The Washington Post, New York Times and NBC News all published false information regarding Rudolph Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, and his dealings in Ukraine.
The news organizations later issued corrections to stories that ran last Thursday or Friday, and took back reports that the former New York City mayor had been warned by the FBI that he was the subject of a Russian operation to influence the American election.
NBC’s online correction on Saturday was the most extensive, and it required both the headline and top of a story that ran a day earlier to be rewritten. The network said it had been told about an FBI briefing of Giuliani by “a source familiar with the matter,” but later learned from a second source that the briefing had been prepared but not delivered.