#2020-election — Public Fediverse posts
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The remarkable development cuts short the roughly nine-year sentence that #TinaPeters, a former county clerk in Mesa County, #Colorado, was given after being convicted in 2024 for her role in a brazen plot to “examine” [tamper with] voting machines under her control after the #2020election. Peters had tried to prove that the machines had been used to rig the contest against #Trump.
#law #ElectionLaw #accountability #consequences #BigLie #SeditiousConspiracy
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Yet another entry from the“you’ve got to be shitting me” files:
#TinaPeters, #Colorado #ElectionDenier, Will Be Freed by Governor
Gov. #JaredPolis, a #Democrat 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻, commuted the sentence of Peters, a former county clerk serving a 9-year sentence for her role in a plot to tamper with voting machines after the #2020election.
#law #ElectionLaw #accountability #consequences #Trump #BigLie #SeditiousConspiracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/tina-peters-colorado-trump-polis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The Jan 28 seizure by the #FBI targeted the elections hub in #Georgia’s most populous county, which is heavily #Democratic & includes most of the city of #Atlanta. #FultonCounty has been at the center of unfounded claims by #Trump & his allies that widespread election fraud cost him the #2020election.
#law #ElectionLaw #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #democracy #Constitution
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Unbelievable
The #FederalGovernment can keep the #2020election ballots from #Georgia’s #FultonCounty that were seized by the #FBI from a warehouse near #Atlanta, a judge ruled Wednesday.
US District Judge JP Boulee’s decision came after lawyers for the county had argued that the #ballots & other #election materials, as well as any electronic copies the #DOJ has made, should be returned because the seizure was improper & #unconstitutional.
#law #ElectionLaw #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/trump-2020-election-fulton-county-fbi-ballots-1c425a1d1d04bf4ea2178c2a5443f2e9 -
California Supreme Court disbars attorney John Eastman over 2020 election misconduct
📰 Original title: Former Trump lawyer John Eastman disbarred for trying to overturn 2020 election
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/california-supreme-court-disbars-attorney-john-eastman-over-2020-election-misconduct/?redirpost=06b34462-0a2a-47fb-96f7-85338525b4ea
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The Guardian | Two Trump moves last week could kill off future accountability for his deeds | Jan-Werner Müller by Jan-Werner Müller
The Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seem
Last week, the Trump administration proudly published two pieces of news which, at first sight, could not be more different: one a dry 52-page legal opinion from the justice department declaring the 1978 Presidential Records Act unconstitutional; the other an AI-generated clip of Trump’s planned “presidential library”, a waterfront skyscraper in Miami. Both sent the same message, though: the legal opinion – authored by a jurist heavily involved in attempts to overturn the 2020 election – leaves Trump free to destroy evidence of wrongdoing; the building envisaged for Biscayne Bay appears to be less of a library than a hotel complex. As the president reassured anyone suspecting that he might fill a glitzy edifice with boring papers and books: “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums.” These are clear signals about wanting to avoid accountability; it is not too early to devise strategies to counter politically motivated amnesia.
In what jurists widely saw as an opinion of breathtakingly bad faith, T Elliot Gaiser, the Ohio-based election denier and a former clerk of Samuel Alito, asserted that Congress had no right to ask the president to preserve records; the imperative to create and keep documents served “no legislative purpose” and could “impede” the day-to-day “performance” of the head of the executive. The act had been crafted in the wake of the misdeeds of Richard Nixon, who had wanted discretion over which of his tapes and papers to destroy; in response, Congress first passed the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act in 1974, making the government take custody of Nixon’s materials. Nixon sued; the supreme court rejected the view that the separation of powers had been violated; the justices also took the occasion to affirm the importance of “the American people’s ability to reconstruct and come to terms with their history”. Congress then passed the more general Presidential Records Act, which no one up until Trump appeared to have experienced as remotely burdensome.
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#donaldtrump #uspolitics #presidentialrecordsact #justicedepartment #2020election
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#PublicityHound and #2020election denier #MikeLindell gets served legal documents while doing a *live* interview on #MAGA #propaganda outlet #OANN. “We’re on TV here, please,” Lindell repeatedly said while trying to shove the women out of frame.
“I know, *you’ve been served!*” #FAFO https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-lindell-served-at-cpac_n_69c5fa73e4b09f8e0050ce92
#Resist intelligently!
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Delia Ramirez Calls for Dismantling “Agency of Terror” as New DHS Head Sworn In
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@DrALJONES #Putin is *extremely* pleased with his puppet in the #WhiteHouse , aka #AgentKrasnov.
#AmericanCarnage2.0 is not just #retribution for #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump losing the #2020election (among many other grievances), it is also about #Russia getting revenge for the dissolution of the #SovietUnion.
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Though #Smartmatic machines were used in only one #US county during the #2020election — Los Angeles, which #Trump lost by more than 1.8 million — the company has remained a target for Trump & his allies, who have claimed without any evidence that the election was rigged.
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A voting machine company at the heart of #ConspiracyTheories about the #2020election accused the #DOJ Tuesday of bringing a criminal case against it to further Trump’s baseless claims about that vote.
The parent company of London-based #Smartmatic asked a federal judge to dismiss foreign bribery charges filed against it last year, alleging they amounted to little more than a vindictive & selective prosecution. -
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#FBI obtains voting data from #Arizona #GOP’s 2020 review that confirmed Trump’s loss
A federal grand jury in Arizona has subpoenaed records from a review #Republican lawmakers conducted of the #2020election results that confirmed #Trump lost.#law #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #TrumpLost #TrumpIsALoser
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/09/trump-arizona-election-subpoena/ -
Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen said Monday he's recently handed over records related to review of Maricopa County's 2020 election results
With everything else that's going on....
#USPol #USPolitics #2020Election #Arizona #MaricopaCounty #Elections #Voting
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For instance, an attorney #ethics panel in Washington recommended last year that #JeffreyClark, a senior #DOJ official during Trump's first term as president, be #disbarred for conduct involving dishonesty.
Clark sought to enlist the DOJ in Trump's failed attempts to overturn his #2020election loss based on false claims of widespread voter fraud. A DC appeals court has yet to make the final determination on #disbarment.
#Trump #law #LegalEthics #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ABA
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#Trump Officials Attended a Summit of #Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the #Midterms
Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the #2020election pressed the president to declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.
https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms
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The idea of claiming “emergency” #ExecutivePowers based on *allegations* of foreign interference attaches new significance to the admin’s actions to reinvestigate the #2020election. #Trump has never accepted defeat, while never finding evidence of widespread fraud. DNI #TulsiGabbard [Russian propagandist] is leading a “review” of election security that officials said focuses on foreign influence.
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Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-pg draft #ExecutiveOrder that claims #China interfered in the #2020election [it didn’t] as a basis to declare a national “emergency” that would unlock extraordinary presidential #power over #voting.
#Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID & ban #mail #ballots in November’s #MidtermElections, & the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised EO on the issue. -
#Trump has evaded punishment for #crimes both low (campaign-finance violations, for which he was #convicted, though he will serve no time thanks to his 2024 victory) & high (his attempted overthrow of the federal government in the aftermath of his #2020election loss, for which he was spared by #SCOTUS’ decision to grant him a kingly #immunity).
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The #FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by #KashPatel & #SusieWiles, now the FBI director & White House Chief of Staff, when they were both private citizens in 2022 & 2023 during the federal #criminal probe of #Trump [as was 100% proper & legal].
The FBI’s actions that took place during the Biden admin, largely when Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating whether Trump had interfered with the #2020election & had hidden #ClassifiedDocuments.
#law
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-obtained-kash-patel-susie-wiles-phone-records-during-biden-administration-2026-02-25/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
It Looks Like The FBI Straight Up Lied To A Judge To Get Permission To Seize Georgia Voting Records
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#Trump has fixated on #FultonCounty a Democratic stronghold & the most populous county in the #state, asserting without evidence that voter fraud there cost him victory in #Georgia in 2020.
An #FBI affidavit presented to a judge to obtain the search warrant says the investigation began with a referral from #KurtOlsen, who advised Trump as he tried to overturn his #2020election loss & now serves as Trump’s “director of election security & integrity” with a mission to investigate Trump’s loss.
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#FBI agents arrived at the #elections hub just south of #Atlanta with a search warrant seeking documents related to the #2020election in #FultonCounty, #Georgia including: all ballots, tabulator tapes from the scanners that tally the votes, electronic ballot images created when the ballots were counted & then recounted, & all voter rolls. The county has filed a motion seeking the return of the seized materials.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #privacy #InfoSec #midterms #Trump #coup
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I’ve Witnessed Trump Weaponize Georgia Ballots for Years. Then He Stole Mine.
The FBI raid of Fulton County’s election hub is just one facet of a worrying pattern of election interference. -
“The #FBI criminal investigation originated from a referral sent by #KurtOlsen, Presidentially appointed Director of Election Security & Integrity,” the affidavit said. Olsen played a central role in Trump’s #coup attempt to overturn the #2020election, including speaking to the president multiple times on #Jan6, 2021. He has continued to push false claims about elections, & was recently appointed to a key role in the #Trump admin.
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An #FBI search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that a criminal “investigation” into #2020election results in #FultonCounty, #Georgia, was set off by a leading #ElectionDenier in the #Trump admin & relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.
The unsealing of the affidavit is likely to raise more questions about the Trump admin’s use of the FBI & #DOJ to revive old, disproven claims about the 2020 election in the state, which Trump decidedly lost.
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#Georgia Ballot Inquiry Originated With #ElectionDenier in #Trump White House
A newly unsealed affidavit showed that a criminal “investigation” into the #2020election in Fulton County, GA, relied heavily on BS claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.
#law #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #SeditiousConspiracy #coup
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/politics/fulton-county-kurt-olsen-fbi-search-2020-ballots.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The #Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the #FBI ‘s Seizure of #Election Records in #Georgia
The researcher, #KevinMoncla , has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in #FultonCounty was tainted by fraud. Although many of his claims have been discredited or debunked, they’ve continued to be cited by #Trump & those connected to #CletaMitchell , a lawyer who helped Trump try to overturn the #2020election & publicly pressed his admin to reinvestigate it
#magahttps://www.propublica.org/article/kevin-moncla-election-researcher-fulton-county-georgia
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Legal fight escalates over #Georgia voting records as #Trump says he wants to ‘take over’ #elections
Officials in Georgia’s Fulton County said Wednesday they have asked a federal court to order the #FBI to return ballots & other documents from the #2020election that it seized last week, escalating a voting battle as Trump says he wants to “take over” elections from Democratic-run areas with the November #midterms on the horizon.
#law #ElectionLaw #coup #authoritarianism https://apnews.com/article/fbi-georgia-elections-fulton-county-2020-ballots-532b6daf318c79c471cd7f145c9f2215
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Is anyone else anticipating that Trump is going to come out with "evidence" that he won the 2020 election? I don't know how long it'll take his people to fake up something, but they don't have to do too good a job of it. His followers will swallow anything even "WE STOLL TH ELECTUN, SIGNED THE DUMOCRATS" scrawled in crayon on White House stationery.