Tina Peters, the top election official in Mesa County, CO took the stage and claimed that her office had been “invade[d]” and “raided” by investigators with CO SOS Griswold’s office as part of an investigation into a breach in election security.
On Wed computer files apparently associated with the Mesa Co election sys were presented and analyzed live on a giant screen behind the stage by Watkins, who beamed into the event via livestream. In a confusing back and forth, Watkins told the crowd that his lawyer instructed him
to say that the files were from hard drives taken “without authorization” from Peters’ office, and the hard drives should be returned to the clerk, and “we should stop this data review.”
Peters then came on stage and said the the hard drives did not come from her office, “unless it happened during the raid.” Watkins then spoke again, saying that the drives made their way to him via Sheronna Bishop, a right-wing activist from CO
She ordered Peters, to comply with insp of elec equip video footage, and other docs in the county to prove that chain of custody remains in tact and that there has been no unauthorized access to voting equipment in the county sos.state.co.us/pubs/newsRoom/…
#TinaPeters you are a traitor, and I pray you are punished appropriately. I'm sure you have already received a personal call from Trump.
A watchdog group on Monday sued the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for dismissing a complaint alleging that Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) unlawfully used a super PAC to support his 2018 Senate run.
Scott has collected close to $1.4 million from 127 appointees, their spouses and children, who have given either to his Senate campaign or the New Republican PAC supporting his bid
#RickScott and his wife, Ann, own as much as $2.5 million worth of stock in five fossil fuel companies that have contributed to his Senate election bid
Last month, WAPO political reporter @feliciasonmez didn’t just sue her employer for discriminating against her as a woman and a sexual-assault survivor. She alleged that while she was prohibited from covering sexual misconduct stories, thedailybeast.com/behind-the-bom…
the paper’s top editors had allowed a prominent male journalist to cover similar stories, despite an allegation of misconduct.
Somnez alleged that a male colleague at the Post had been accused of, and investigated for, sending “an unsolicited photo of his underwear-covered crotch to a young woman.” (The Post’s investigation concluded no wrongdoing, but the reporter was given a warning.)
Carlson is in Hungary for MCC Feszt, a conference convened by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, a government-funded association dedicated to creating a right-wing future. rawstory.com/amp/the-distur…
Tucker has shown his true colors over the last few years. White racist, misogynistic, xenophobic POS
Carlson is one of a handful of right-wing elites who are in thrall to what Orbán calls his philosophy of "illiberal democracy," which includes government support for churches,
(he calls Hungary a Christian democracy) a program to coerce women to have more "true Hungarian" children so as to reduce any need for immigrant labor and a ban on legal rights for transgender people. He even built a wall on his country's southern border to keep immigrants
Twitter on Tuesday suspended a string of accounts that had been promoting the ballot review, including one that had been billed as the audit’s official handle, saying that they violated company policies on “platform manipulation and spam.” washingtonpost.com/politics/arizo…
GOP state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita announced on Twitter that she believed Senate President Karen Fann (R) had shown a “total lack of competence” in managing the project.
She also said that Fann had “failed to manage public expectations,” allowing former president Donald Trump and others to claim the audit could be used to reverse Arizona’s results.
This is just a ginormous web. Barrack's arrest started with an interview with Bob Mueller's team, and circles back to the Trump Tower meetings (2018) Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/…
One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Another was an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor.
The meeting was convened primarily to offer help to the Trump team manipulate social media to swing the election to Trump, this is on top of what Russia was already doing
Erik Prince arranged the meeting which took place on Aug. 3, 2016. The emissary, George Nader
As we sat for the interview, the former president’s press secretary presented us copies of a bound volume: 1,000 Accomplishments of President Donald J. Trump: Highlights of the First Term.
Imagine if McConnell actually followed through, what a difference this year would make.
“I tried to convince Mitch McConnell to get rid of the filibuster, to terminate it, so that we would get everything, and he was a knucklehead and he didn’t do it,”
Trump said he wished he had had partners in Congress like Meade Esposito, who was the head of the Dem Party machine in Brooklyn from the late 60s to the early 80s. Esposito, who was close to Trump and his late father, Fred Trump, was known for his patronage and commanded respect.