GOP Tampers With Voting Machines

GOP tampers with election machines!
Heather Cox Richardson
"Emma Brown, Jon Swaine, Aaron C. Davis, and Amy Gardner of the Washington Post broke the story that after the 2020 election, as part of the effort to overturn the results, Trump’s lawyers paid computer experts to copy data from election systems in Georgia. The breach was successful and significant, although authorities maintain the machines can be secured before the next election. Led by Trump ally Sidney Powell, the group also sought security data from Michigan and Nevada, although the extent of the breaches there is unclear. They also appear to have worked on getting information from Arizona.
Georgia prosecutors have told Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani that he is a target in the criminal investigation of the attempt to alter the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, letting him know it is possible he will be indicted.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has tried to quash a subpoena requiring his testimony before a Fulton County grand jury investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, but today a federal judge, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May, said he must testify. She said that “the District Attorney’s office has shown ‘extraordinary circumstances and a special need for Senator Graham’s testimony on issues relating to alleged attempts to influence or disrupt the lawful administration of Georgia's 2020 elections.’”
And yet, the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election is still spreading. Amy Gardner in the Washington Post reports that 54 out of 87 Republican nominees in the states that were battlegrounds in 2020 are election deniers. Had they held power in 2020, they could have overturned the votes for Biden and given the election to Trump. In the 41 states that have already winnowed their candidates, more than half the Republicans—250 candidates in 469 contests—claim to believe the lie that Trump won in 2020.
In the issue of Trump’s theft of classified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration when he left office, over the weekend, Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush reported in the New York Times that last June, one of Trump’s lawyers signed a statement saying that all classified documents that had made it to Mar-a-Lago had been given back to the National Archives and Records Administration. But, of course, the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago last Monday revealed that assertion to be incorrect.
The statement was made after Jay I. Bratt, the Justice Department’s top counterintelligence officer, visited Mar-a-Lago on June 3. The House and Senate intelligence committees have asked Director of National Intelligence Avril D. Haines to provide the committees with a damage assessment of how badly Trump’s retention of top secret classified documents in an insecure location has damaged national security.
Today, the Department of Justice has asked a judge not to unseal the affidavit behind the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, saying that it “implicates highly classified materials,” and that disclosing the affidavit right now would "cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation." CNN, the Washington Post, NBC News, and Scripps all asked the judge to unseal all documents related to the Mar-a-Lago search. But, “[i]f disclosed,” the Justice Department wrote, “the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps.”
Legal analyst and Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe commented: “This suggests [the Department of Justice] wasn’t just repatriating top secret doc[ument]s to get them out of Trump’s unsafe clutches but is pursuing a path looking toward criminal indictment.”

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Notes:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/14/statement-by-president-joe-biden-celebrating-the-republic-of-indias-75th-anniversary-of-independence/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/13/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-attack-on-salman-rushdie/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/15/sidney-powell-coffee-county-sullivan-strickler/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/us/graham-georgia-investigation-trump.html

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/politics/lindsey-graham-georgia-investigation/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/us/politics/trump-classified-material-fbi.html

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/politics/justice-department-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/index.html

@phranny said
GOP tampers with election machines!
Heather Cox Richardson
"Emma Brown, Jon Swaine, Aaron C. Davis, and Amy Gardner of the Washington Post broke the story that after the 2020 election, as part of the effort to overturn the results, Trump’s lawyers paid computer experts to copy data from election systems in Georgia. The breach was successful and significant, although authori ...[text shortened]...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/politics/justice-department-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/index.html

I always believed that he should never be back in the Oval Office.
I didn't care if he went to jail or not.
But in the interest of the justice system, we can't let this clown set a precedent.
Anyone else is looking at prison for this. I see FOX constantly grumbling that the raids should never have taken place.
Hardly a single peep about him being innocent.
Where there was any talk about innocence, it has gone to the ridiculous.
National Archives accidentally packed the documents.
The FBI planted the evidence
Trump declassified the documents
Ridiculous !!

This guy should be indicted. And go to prison if convicted.
If for no other reason than to maintain the integrity of the justice system.

@Phranny

The truth will out. Let’s hope after he announces his candidacy and just about a month before the next presidential election.

@phranny said
GOP tampers with election machines!
Heather Cox Richardson
"Emma Brown, Jon Swaine, Aaron C. Davis, and Amy Gardner of the Washington Post broke the story that after the 2020 election, as part of the effort to overturn the results, Trump’s lawyers paid computer experts to copy data from election systems in Georgia. The breach was successful and significant, although authori ...[text shortened]...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/politics/justice-department-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/index.html

@phranny said
GOP tampers with election machines!

Oh deary me.

Those tricky old republikunts…

@moonbus said
@Phranny

The truth will out. Let’s hope after he announces his candidacy and just about a month before the next presidential election.

@mghrn55 said
His supporters want him to throw his hat into the ring sooner.
If they indict him while he is a candidate, it will probably lead to more violence.

@phranny said
GOP tampers with election machines!
Heather Cox Richardson
"Emma Brown, Jon Swaine, Aaron C. Davis, and Amy Gardner of the Washington Post broke the story that after the 2020 election, as part of the effort to overturn the results, Trump’s lawyers paid computer experts to copy data from election systems in Georgia. The breach was successful and significant, although authori ...[text shortened]...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/politics/justice-department-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/index.html

@mghrn55
The problem with a would be dictator is not strictly the perp himself but the followers duplicating his political tactics, that big lies WORK.
A real testament to the intelligence of human beings.

@moonbus said
The GOP needs to be thoroughly trounced in the next presidential cycle, as only this will force them to confront their own complicity in Trump’s Machiavellian machinations.

@Shallow-Blue
Hopefully people will realize the stakes involved here, like state legislators setting up their electoral college counts that if they go the wrong way, that is Dem, they can legally just kick out those counts and install their own.
THAT is the end of democracy here.
When those state legislators get through putting in their cynical system and court cases wend their way to the supreme court I would not put it past the ultrarightwingnuts on SCOTUS from saying nothing wrong with that, they made the law and that is that.
Also end of democracy.
We can only hope the populace sees this happening and come out in enough numbers not even the state laws can screw with the electoral count.
It has been the goal of conservatives for a century or more to limit the amount of people voting, they HATED women getting the vote and absolutely DETESTED blacks getting the vote and now they seem to be engineering payback for the detestable people allowed to vote now.