Remember when Ali Alexander, Roger Stone. & Jacob Engels OPPOSED recounts in 2018? These bad faith actors always accuse their opponents of fraud, regardless of facts, bc it is propaganda. It dates back to 2000. h/t @LeaLovesUSA #narrativewarfare 1/ miaminewtimes.com/news/trump-fan…
2/ Seriously. I know many of us already know they have screamed “stop the steal” since 2000 but it is nonetheless infuriating to see it spelled out so clearly in 2018.
3/ Jack Posobiec was involved too.
4/ So was Laura Loomer.
5/ The “Stop the Steal” playback dates back to the 2000 astroturf Brooks Brothers Riot, which helped stop the recount in an election that Bush supposedly won by just 537 votes. It is propaganda, as Brad Blakeman readily acknowledges. Excerpt from something I’m writing:
6/ Karl Rove used the same “stop the steal” playbook back in 1994 in Alabama. He, Stone, & Manafort are all alumni of the same Republican shark tank: College Republicans. link.medium.com/uoMsnAtf0jb
7/ From my Medium article in post 6. They just recycle “stop the steal” over and over. Again, this is re: 1994.
8/ 2016 too. I strongly suspect that Trump’s false claims of a rigged election are, in part, what caused Ds to underplay security concerns re: the 2016 election & concede without even a recount. We are still living w/ the repercussions of that bad (imo) decision.
10/ Trump’s baseless claims about a rigged election in 2020 and propaganda #fraudits are almost certainly the reason why Democrats decided to NOT reintroduce legislation that would require rigorous manual audits for all federal races starting in 2022.
11/ I wrote this about Ron DeSantis’s and Rick Scott’s poll defying & otherwise questionable Florida wins in 2018. It is Democrats who shld have worried about potential fraud, not the GOP. link.medium.com/Tc6nNFph0jb
👀The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has published an article by A3P attorney Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to states & requires church-state separation. 1/
While we were distracted, Trump appointed Josh Craddock—who recently signed a letter urging the DOJ to use the Comstock Act to curtail abortion pill distribution—to serve as Deputy Assistant AG in the DOJ’s OLC. Don’t worry. He probly won’t do much until *after* the midterms… 1/
2/ Josh Craddock announced his appointment on 7/2/25.
Houraney “recalls encountering Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in Jan 1993” & says “Trump asked him to organise a party” w/ “some of his pageant’s finalists…[A]fter an hour at the party, Houraney says, there seemed to be only one other guest: Epstein.” 3/14/20 1/
ICYMI, during the 2016 presidential campaign, “Epstein invited [Peter] Thiel and [Thomas] Barrack to separate meetings with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations. **** Thiel, who had several interactions with Epstein starting in 2014, according to the documents, said his Oct 2016 meeting with Epstein & Churkin featured ‘nothing memorable.’
‘I was rather naive,’ Thiel said in an interview, ‘and I didn’t think enough about what Epstein’s agenda might have been.’ Barrack, founder of Colony Capital and a longtime Trump ally, declined to comment.” 1/ archive.is/2023.09.03-150…
Tulsi’s report seems to me like an attempt to distract. As I detailed on Medium, Obama stated in Dec 2016 that, “We have not seen evidence of machines being tampered with *** That doesn’t mean that we find every single potential probe of every single voting machine across the country. But we paid a lot of attention to it. We worked with state election officials, etc. And we feel confident that that didn’t occur.” 1/
If anything, I felt that Obama and others provided false assurances to the public about the legitimacy of Trump’s win in 2016. I explained my concerns in detail here. 3/ jennycohn1.medium.com/why-have-so-ma…
A whistleblower alleged that staff of Palantir—co-founded by Facebook investor/director Peter Thiel—had worked w/ Cambridge Analytica (CA) on the FB data it acquired. But a Palantir spokesperson claimed Palantir never had a relationship w/ CA & never worked on its data. 5/2018 1/