#2020election — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #2020election, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/news/33321/ Who won the GOP race for Senate in Texas? #2020Election #Election #Elections2026 #Headlines #News #Politics #TopStories #Tx #TxPolitics #Us #USSenate
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#KenPaxton [actual #POS whose own staff tried to have him removed from the office of the #Texas AG for #corruption & #misconduct & bottom of the shit barrel asshat who actually filed THE lawsuit with #SCOTUS to overturn the #2020election no freaking joke. This is a garbage human. I don’t mean the lovely peeps who remove your refuse, I mean he’s the dogshit you desperately try to scrape off the heel of your shoe] wins Senate primary runoff, defeats John Cornyn
https://apnews.com/live/election-primary-texas-runoff-05-26-2026
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#KenPaxton [actual #POS whose own staff tried to have him removed from the office of the #Texas AG for #corruption & #misconduct & bottom of the shit barrel asshat who actually filed THE lawsuit with #SCOTUS to overturn the #2020election no freaking joke. This is a garbage human. I don’t mean the lovely peeps who remove your refuse, I mean he’s the dogshit you desperately try to scrape off the heel of your shoe] wins Senate primary runoff, defeats John Cornyn
https://apnews.com/live/election-primary-texas-runoff-05-26-2026
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#KenPaxton [actual #POS whose own staff tried to have him removed from the office of the #Texas AG for #corruption & #misconduct & bottom of the shit barrel asshat who actually filed THE lawsuit with #SCOTUS to overturn the #2020election no freaking joke. This is a garbage human. I don’t mean the lovely peeps who remove your refuse, I mean he’s the dogshit you desperately try to scrape off the heel of your shoe] wins Senate primary runoff, defeats John Cornyn
https://apnews.com/live/election-primary-texas-runoff-05-26-2026
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#KenPaxton [actual #POS whose own staff tried to have him removed from the office of the #Texas AG for #corruption & #misconduct & bottom of the shit barrel asshat who actually filed THE lawsuit with #SCOTUS to overturn the #2020election no freaking joke. This is a garbage human. I don’t mean the lovely peeps who remove your refuse, I mean he’s the dogshit you desperately try to scrape off the heel of your shoe] wins Senate primary runoff, defeats John Cornyn
https://apnews.com/live/election-primary-texas-runoff-05-26-2026
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#KenPaxton [actual #POS whose own staff tried to have him removed from the office of the #Texas AG for #corruption & #misconduct & bottom of the shit barrel asshat who actually filed THE lawsuit with #SCOTUS to overturn the #2020election no freaking joke. This is a garbage human. I don’t mean the lovely peeps who remove your refuse, I mean he’s the dogshit you desperately try to scrape off the heel of your shoe] wins Senate primary runoff, defeats John Cornyn
https://apnews.com/live/election-primary-texas-runoff-05-26-2026
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Did JD Vance say that Tina Peters deserves a federal payout?
Yes. Vice President JD Vance recently told reporters he thought it was “reasonable” that Tina Peters “get some…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #2020election #colorado #conspiracy #DonaldTrump #FactBrief #JamesDavidVance #jdvance #tinapeters #vance #vicepresident #VP
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https://www.europesays.com/people/82403/ Did JD Vance say that Tina Peters deserves a federal payout? #2020Election #Colorado #Conspiracy #DonaldTrump #FactBrief #JamesDavidVance #JDVance #TinaPeters
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@thetnholler.bsky.social Considering that the leading #2020election denier easily won the state of #Kentucky in the #2024election - despite initiating the #January6th #FailedCoupAttempt to stop certification of #JoeBiden as 46th #POTUS - it is freaking hilarious that the state passed ‘sore loser laws’ preventing people who lose primaries from running as Independents! 😂
So #ThomasMassie can’t run as an Independent against #EdGallrein. But he could wage a nasty write-in campaign!
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@thetnholler.bsky.social Considering that the leading #2020election denier easily won the state of #Kentucky in the #2024election - despite initiating the #January6th #FailedCoupAttempt to stop certification of #JoeBiden as 46th #POTUS - it is freaking hilarious that the state passed ‘sore loser laws’ preventing people who lose primaries from running as Independents! 😂
So #ThomasMassie can’t run as an Independent against #EdGallrein. But he could wage a nasty write-in campaign!
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@thetnholler.bsky.social Considering that the leading #2020election denier easily won the state of #Kentucky in the #2024election - despite initiating the #January6th #FailedCoupAttempt to stop certification of #JoeBiden as 46th #POTUS - it is freaking hilarious that the state passed ‘sore loser laws’ preventing people who lose primaries from running as Independents! 😂
So #ThomasMassie can’t run as an Independent against #EdGallrein. But he could wage a nasty write-in campaign!
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@thetnholler.bsky.social Considering that the leading #2020election denier easily won the state of #Kentucky in the #2024election - despite initiating the #January6th #FailedCoupAttempt to stop certification of #JoeBiden as 46th #POTUS - it is freaking hilarious that the state passed ‘sore loser laws’ preventing people who lose primaries from running as Independents! 😂
So #ThomasMassie can’t run as an Independent against #EdGallrein. But he could wage a nasty write-in campaign!
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@thetnholler.bsky.social Considering that the leading #2020election denier easily won the state of #Kentucky in the #2024election - despite initiating the #January6th #FailedCoupAttempt to stop certification of #JoeBiden as 46th #POTUS - it is freaking hilarious that the state passed ‘sore loser laws’ preventing people who lose primaries from running as Independents! 😂
So #ThomasMassie can’t run as an Independent against #EdGallrein. But he could wage a nasty write-in campaign!
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Of course he does. Paxton was a full fledged member of the #SeditiousConspiracy to overturn the #2020election. He brought that lawsuit to #SCOTUS to nullify Biden’s win.
He’s also a #criminal, his own staff tried to get him fired from being the #Texas Attorney General.
#Trump endorses #KenPaxton in Texas #Republican primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn
#USpol #Congress #TXpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-texas-senate-endorsement-paxton-cornyn-adb4c7213fc2d0db0b29d0ab65d49384 -
Of course he does. Paxton was a full fledged member of the #SeditiousConspiracy to overturn the #2020election. He brought that lawsuit to #SCOTUS to nullify Biden’s win.
He’s also a #criminal, his own staff tried to get him fired from being the #Texas Attorney General.
#Trump endorses #KenPaxton in Texas #Republican primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn
#USpol #Congress #TXpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-texas-senate-endorsement-paxton-cornyn-adb4c7213fc2d0db0b29d0ab65d49384 -
Of course he does. Paxton was a full fledged member of the #SeditiousConspiracy to overturn the #2020election. He brought that lawsuit to #SCOTUS to nullify Biden’s win.
He’s also a #criminal, his own staff tried to get him fired from being the #Texas Attorney General.
#Trump endorses #KenPaxton in Texas #Republican primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn
#USpol #Congress #TXpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-texas-senate-endorsement-paxton-cornyn-adb4c7213fc2d0db0b29d0ab65d49384 -
Of course he does. Paxton was a full fledged member of the #SeditiousConspiracy to overturn the #2020election. He brought that lawsuit to #SCOTUS to nullify Biden’s win.
He’s also a #criminal, his own staff tried to get him fired from being the #Texas Attorney General.
#Trump endorses #KenPaxton in Texas #Republican primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn
#USpol #Congress #TXpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-texas-senate-endorsement-paxton-cornyn-adb4c7213fc2d0db0b29d0ab65d49384 -
Of course he does. Paxton was a full fledged member of the #SeditiousConspiracy to overturn the #2020election. He brought that lawsuit to #SCOTUS to nullify Biden’s win.
He’s also a #criminal, his own staff tried to get him fired from being the #Texas Attorney General.
#Trump endorses #KenPaxton in Texas #Republican primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn
#USpol #Congress #TXpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-texas-senate-endorsement-paxton-cornyn-adb4c7213fc2d0db0b29d0ab65d49384 -
https://www.europesays.com/people/73090/ Colorado governor commutes Tina Peters’ sentence after Trump pressure #2020Election #BarbaraKirkmeyer #Colorado #ColoradoGovernor #commutation #CountyClerk #DominionVotingSystems #DonaldTrump #ElectionConspiracy #ElectionFraud #JaredPolis #JenaGriswold #mcnd #MesaCounty #MichaelBennet #MikeLindell #POTUS #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #PresidentTrump #PuebloPrison #TinaPeters
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis grants clemency to Trump election denier Tina Peters
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/jared-polis-tina-peters-clemency
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis grants clemency to Trump election denier Tina Peters
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/jared-polis-tina-peters-clemency
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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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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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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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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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
https://www.europesays.com/videos/26088/ Trump shares fake quotes, falsely accuses Obama of treason in late-night rant • FRANCE 24 English #'fakeNews' #2016Election #2020Election #ArtificialIntelligence #BarackObama #ConspiracyTheories #DonaldTrump #espionage #FoxNews #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #HillaryClinton #misinformation #NewYorkTimes #SocialMedia #treason #TruthSocial #VoterFraud
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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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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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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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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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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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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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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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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Great breakdown of how #donaldjtrump is trying to steal the #2028election after failing, repeatedly, to steal the #2020election from President Joe Biden. #DiaperDon is illegally & unconstitutionally stealing your private voter data to make an #AIgenerated #GOPedo approved #NationalVoterDatabase , basically deleting #Democrat's #Constitutional #RightToVote with #MechaHitler mass produced #AIslop "voter fraud" defamation.
https://youtu.be/y5KykyUnmo4?si=ZaLVzGk_mgUa2XcN -
Great breakdown of how #donaldjtrump is trying to steal the #2028election after failing, repeatedly, to steal the #2020election from President Joe Biden. #DiaperDon is illegally & unconstitutionally stealing your private voter data to make an #AIgenerated #GOPedo approved #NationalVoterDatabase , basically deleting #Democrat's #Constitutional #RightToVote with #MechaHitler mass produced #AIslop "voter fraud" defamation.
https://youtu.be/y5KykyUnmo4?si=ZaLVzGk_mgUa2XcN -
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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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