The Trump administration’s acting Homeland Security Deputy Secretary directed intelligence officials at the Department of Homeland Security in late April 2020 to look into then-President Donald Trump’s bogus conspiracy theories about mail-in voting, Politico reports.
The Trump Administration: Certifiably Criminally Minded
Someone should step on that Cucaracha.
“The officials raised complaints about the voter fraud hunt, and many suspected that the directive was politically motivated, Politico reports.”
Everything tfg’s administration did was politically motivated.
The DFP knew he was going to lose. He was already planning to interfere with the election six months in advance. LOCK HIM UP!!
Except for the stuff that just pure grift.
It’s almost as if he entered the political realm for the grifting opportunities. And because Obama hurt his feelings.
The Trump administration’s acting Homeland Security Deputy Secretary directed intelligence officials at the Department of Homeland Security in late April 2020 to look into then-President Donald Trump’s bogus conspiracy theories about mail-in voting, Politico reports.
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Gee, no shit? Really? I wouldn’t have expected that…
No “almost” about it.
The former guy (two-time LOSER) knew he was going to lose again, this time more “bigly” than the first, because Joe Biden wasn’t a woman. Clearly, he had to prepare the ground for tossing out the vote of the people (and by byzantine extension, the electoral college.)
He said at the time he would be the first to make money as a candidate.
The news story isn’t that Trump ordered his administration to go find election fraud. The news story is that they came up empty. So he knew it was all bullshit. That makes the campaign of election fraud lawsuits and, ultimately, the Pence Gambit a conspiracy to defraud the United States, a felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison.
A very important point. Lays to rest a great deal.
On the day of the election there was a data analyst with the Trump campaign telling them “Hey dude you lost”. Instead they created this chimera of the big lie which led to 1/6.
Definitely certifiable. Definitely criminal. The “mind” part is a bit more dubious.
CONFRAUDUS isn’t a slam dunk, because Trump is so remarkably stupid that he may have continued to believe election fraud really was a thing. I can see a juror getting hung up on reasonable doubt over it. But I think it’s a damn good add-along charge with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, the 20-year felony that he’s facing for agreeing to unleash the J6 mob against the electoral vote count.
Ahhhhh…the Cooch was advocating ‘probing’ something ELSE??? What a fkn freak he is.
Kenny The Cooch was trying to subvert democracy before he got mixed up with the Former Guy.
The question for CONFRAUDUS is whether you can convince a jury of 12 D.C. citizens that fact meant, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Trump recognized The Big Lie was A Big Lie. I think it can be done, but it’s not a slam dunk.
Here’s how my closing argument would go, given that the defense would inevitably point to all the sycophantic cretins and media around Trump telling him “Sure, Boss, there’s all kinds of fraud. You wuz robbed!”
Trump was whining about voter fraud for months and months before a single vote was cast, claiming that he could only lose if the election was stolen. That meant he was always going to claim fraud if he lost. Believe him, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
Here’s the litany of public servants and officials and judges and Fat Boy Billy Barr who investigated on his behalf and told him there was no election fraud. Believe them.
The defense has shown you precisely zero evidence of actual election fraud, because Donnie Two Impeachments never had any evidence of election fraud.
Here’s the handful of misfit toys who told their Orange Calf that there was definitely election fraud, you betcha. They’re obviously a bunch of delusional morons and deliberate liars.
But I don’t even care if you think they were giving Trump their honest assessment of the election (which they weren’t, and he knew it). Because Trump wasn’t going around making claims of “On the one hand, on the other hand.” No, he was telling the entire country, the entire world, that the election had definitely, absolutely, 100% unequivocally been stolen from him. And that was a big fucking lie for which he had zero factual basis.
Is there a point in criminal law where “knowing” becomes “should have known”?