Posted on 10/23/2024 4:12:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The former president and his closest allies are returning to debunked claims about hacked machines as they prepare to contest the vote next month.
It has been nearly four years since a parade of judges dismissed wild claims from Donald J. Trump and his associates about hacked election machines and a year and a half since a leading machine company obtained a $787.5 million settlement from Fox News over the debunked conspiracy theories.
But Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign and his closest allies are again trotting out the theories as part of a late-campaign strategy to assert that this year’s election is rigged — although this time Mr. Trump’s campaign appears to be largely acting behind the scenes.
The theories are rampant on social media and widely embraced by activists. They have frequently shown up in the blitz of lawsuits that Republicans have filed in the run-up to the election, including a Georgia lawsuit that a judge dismissed this month, calling the security concerns about voting machines raised in the suit “purely hypothetical.”
Mr. Trump’s name was not on the suit, nor was the Republican National Committee’s. But text messages reviewed by The New York Times suggest that the former president’s top aides were behind it.
The lawsuit was filed by a county Republican Party only after the state Republican Party in Georgia refused, despite requests from “Trump inner circle/high up in RNC,” Alex B. Kaufman, the state party’s general counsel, wrote in a text to another Republican official last month.
“We had immense pressure from above and below to bring this, and said absolutely not,” he added in another message.
Josh McKoon, the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, denied that the Republican National Committee or the Trump team had asked the state party to file the lawsuit.
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If even one machine flips votes, then there is no conspiracy theory.
A “blitz” of lawsuits?
Why not “blitzkreig”, NYT?
Get with the program, Trump is Hitler, y’know.
/sarc
…and yet, the State of New York had plenty of standing to charge DJT, and ONLY DJT, with made-up crimes for which there is no victim, and no complaint whatsoever from any interested party, to the extent the Governess had to go out first thing the next morning and assure every other businessman in the state that this would never be done to them, that it was just for Donald J Trump. So much for our PRECIOUSSS DEMOCRAZY.
“...and run Wi-Fi jammers in every polling place...”
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...and schools...
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