The Arizona “audit” didn’t conclude that Biden won Maricopa County. Instead, it gave a false veneer of authority to existent conspiracy theories. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Trump, of course, wasted no time making false claims about what the Arizona report found. So here is the truth. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
I think the guy running the thing sincerely believes something fraudulent occurred, despite the lack of evidence. So the result was that he highlighted (often easily explicable) questions instead of proving anything.
One thing that’s worth pointing out, I think, is that Trump’s statement about Arizona included a quote from the report that makes pretty clear even he and his team don’t understand the point they thought it made. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
The horse has left the barn, moved to Kentucky, gotten a gig as a stud, sired four Derby winners and is thinking about retirement and Trump demands that someone shut the door of a barn that burned down 15 years ago and was replaced with a Costco.
If you think that the Arizona audit didn't provide exactly what Trump and his supporters were looking for, you're almost certainly misunderstanding it. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
There's a lot of ho-ho!-ing about the vote count. But the vote count was never what Trump and his allies were focused on. What the review did is create a veneer of authority for the actual conspiracy theories, which very much survived. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Here you can see the increase in pediatric hospitalizations and how it overlaps with vaccination rates — but, importantly, children are still far less likely to wind up facing such a severe outcome. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
I wrote this piece because I worry a lot, often irrationally, about my own kids. Looking at the numbers assuaged that, if only temporarily.
Here's a more temporally constrained set of data looking at cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Kids are the orange parts, barely visible even now in the latter two graphs. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
CNN evaluates Mike Lindell's claims and barely leaves anything left for vultures to pick. cnn.com/2021/08/05/pol…
Mike Lindell's arguments were always completely ridiculous and this entire thing has always had the distinct odor of hustlers finding in him a perfect mark. All he's done for months is unwittingly bring other people into the con.
Yoooo this is like pulling Marshall McLuhan out from behind the sign in the movie-theater lobby and then pulling out all of his source documents and then pulling out the people who invented all the words he used.