Tag: Senate GOP echoing Trump's election fraud lies

Mike Lindell’s biggest gamble: Giving hard sell to baseless election fraud claims

Star Tribune logo

After a lifetime of big risks, the MyPillow CEO bet he could discredit a presidential election. 

Mike Lindell has made countless bets in his life, some that cost him everything he had.

But after the November election, the MyPillow founder made his biggest gamble yet: that he could sell America on the discredited idea that rigged voting machines cheated President Donald Trump out of a second term. Lindell has refused to let up — even after courts rejected dozens of fraud claims — and he visited the White House with notes that mentioned martial law shortly before Trump left office.

A maker of voting machines is now suing him and his Chaska-based business for $1.3 billion, far more money than either is worth. While Lindell says he’s made many narrow escapes before, the stakes for him have never been higher. Continue reading.

In Trump’s GOP, They Can’t Handle The Truth

National Memo logo

Even if you don’t like or have never seen the 1992 film, or if you judge Jack Nicholson’s acting technique as, shall we say, a bit much, you can probably recite his signature outburst from “A Few Good Men,” with appropriate volume: “You can’t handle the truth!”

Why are so many in the GOP still insisting that the presidential election was rigged and that Donald Trump, the main attraction at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference, is the “real” president? Why would a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — to avoid a repeat by the same forces who believed an election fraud lie — be a bad idea? Why all the squawking and attempts in some states to censor a social studies curriculum that presents a nuanced and complete history of a United States that has not always acknowledged the accomplishments and sacrifice of all its citizens?

Say it louder, Jack. I don’t think the Republicans present and represented at CPAC can hear you. Continue reading.

Andy McCabe slams ‘disgraceful’ Senate GOP for trying to distract from FBI hearing with more election lies

Raw Story Logo

On CNN Tuesday, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tore into Senate Republicans for their continued effort to push conspiracy theories surrounding the Capitol riot in January at the hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray.

“How do you reconcile Republican members of Congress that swore an oath to the Constitution continuing to traffic in conspiracy theories and lies about the insurrection and the very serious and persistent threat from extremist groups, rightwing extremist groups Director Wray himself laid out today?” asked anchor Anderson Cooper. “Is there precedent for this?”

“Not that I’m aware of. It’s disgraceful,” said McCabe. “You accurately pointed out with the senators, they abandoned those lies long enough to ask questions about things like data collection and the threat from China, because they couldn’t reasonably put forth that nonsense in front of the FBI director who just laid waste to the lie by saying that no, in fact, the election was righteously conducted and that there was no Antifa in the protest. When it’s not convenient for them, they distract by looking at something else, but send them back to CPAC and I’m sure you’ll hear it again.” Continue reading.

‘We have to stop this!’: Ex-Trump official slams Republicans to their faces over election misinformation

AlterNet logo

Republican Christopher Krebs, who formerly headed a cybersecurity agency at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was among the witnesses who testified on Wednesday during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing that addressed alleged “irregularities” in the 2020 election. During his testimony, Krebs only made it clear to Republican senators that he saw no evidence of the type of widespread voter fraud that President Donald Trump and his allies have been alleging — he also called out the extremists who have been threatening election officials.

Krebs discussed the voting equipment that was used in the election, emphasizing that there was no reason to believe that such equipment swung votes to President-elect Joe Biden as some Trump allies have been claiming.

“I’m seeing these reports that are factually inaccurate continue to be promoted,” Krebs told Sen. Ron Johnson and other members of the Homeland Security Committee. “That’s what rumor control is all about. That’s what I’m continuing to do today based on my experience and understanding in how these systems work. We have to stop this! It’s undermining confidence in democracy.” Continue reading.