After listening to every single episode of conservative election lawyer Cleta Mitchell’s podcast, “Who’s Counting?” a simple truth emerges: This isn’t about Donald Trump.
But Mitchell also has institutional cred among conservatives that goes back decades, the kind of swing that can land you a post-insurrection seat on a government elections advisory board without much public fuss, even during the Biden administration.
Reputable sources have Biden naming Dan Bongino and Alex Jones to the FEC. You know, because bipartisan.
PS-And Louis DeJoy is a nice guy after all. He can stay.
Thanks, Matt! Cleta Mitchell is precisely the kind of fascist operative we want to keep an eye on. She’s been around the block. She’s isn’t stupid. She’s a barometer, a good indicator of the GQP zeitgeist.
We, the fascists, will tell you who wins any and all elections. It’s what the founders intended (and God, too, also).
I don’t recall making up the rules during 3rd grade kickball games. That never happened.
That must be why she was given a government job on a Federal advisory board overseeing assorted election matters. Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. Maybe Biden should make Donald Trump Assistant Secretary of State or something.
RaCist attAck on PatriOt conserVativeS.
With Trump, it was/is him out front, and a vast array of people behind him. This is an important article, focusing on the muscle in the vast array.
What both Mitchell and Trump share is a mission to alter what we call “Democracy”…using the mechanisms of our system to destroy that very system.
Cleta Mitchell, a voter fraud conspiracy theorist who joined President Trump in the January phone call pressuring Georgia officials to “find” 11,000 more votes for him, now sits on the advisory board for the Election Assistance Commission, the only federal agency with authority over elections. Her nomination was done largely in secret — the bipartisan body that selected Mitchell discussed her qualifications and arrived at their decision entirely by email, preventing public scrutiny.
Mitchell was appointed to the EAC’s Board of Advisors by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which gets to name two of the board’s 35 members. Her name was brought up for consideration by Civil Rights commissioner J. Christian Adams. Adams, whom Trump appointed to the commission last year, is a longtime business partner of Mitchell’s. Adams is the president of the conservative Public Interest Legal Foundation, and Mitchell is the group’s board chair. The pair have fundraised for conservative voter fraud groups extensively and have tried cases on election issues together.
Okay, now we have Cleta Mitchell’s unsubstantiated claims and lies spewed all over the TPM pixelspace. Where is the equally long, point-by-point factual rebuttal?
This article suggests that Mitchell is the clever “behind the scenes” operative. I would be delighted to see her as famous as Trump. They both are on the same Team.
24/7/365 coverage, non-stop.
I hope Georgia investigators at taking a close look at this person.
It would be a waste of time. The people who buy any of her arguments are not operating in a critical thinking mode. Point-by-point refutations would be irrelevant to them. I think Dems need to find a way to expand beyond the ‘rational voter model’: not abandon it, but also include more messaging with subconscious appeal. The GOP has now mastered appeals to the subconscious wishes and fears of its base.
bingo
Merrick Garland is going to federalize the investigation since it was a national election issue. He has a round file on the floor next to his desk where he will put all the work product.
OT. This is what happens when you fantasize to much about home defense and you are itching for having an intruder in your house so that you can shoot him.
Just another phony liar who is leading the rubes by their noses. I’m sure she is lining her own pockets at the same time. The grift never stops…
Statistically speaking, that’s what gunz do best.
Happy closing out the Old Year. Ah, such fond memories…
What if a Presidential candidate wrote an Obama-esque book…substituting narratives of trying to appeal to voters’ concerns with narratives of creatively counting the votes so as to win?
In fact…why not let Mitchell accompany the candidate in speeches throughout the nation?
answer: wouldn’t/couldn’t do it…Mitchell’s dialogue is made for cheaters behind closed doors
I’m not so sure about this part: she took part in Donnie’s phoned in attempt to pressure Raffensberger to ‘find votes.’
It could, of course, just have been the desperation; but, still, I’d like for the votes she’s worried about to be those of a jury.
