"...And we'll keep recounting until we get the numbers we want."
Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 12:39 am
In the meantime:Trump Hints At Mar-A-Lago That
Biased Arizona Recount Could Be Road To White House
Donald Trump hinted to cheering Mar-a-Lago guests that the disturbing Arizona ballot audit by a partisan private company could lead to his White House reinstatement. “Let’s see what they find,” Trump said in remarks captured on video at his Florida golf resort.
“Some very interesting things are happening in Arizona,” he noted in the footage that appeared to be taken Wednesday during his farewell remarks before he headed to New Jersey for the summer. It was posted on TikTok by by someone using '45covfefe' as their identity.
“Let’s see what they find. I wouldn’t be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes,” Trump added. “After that we’ll watch Pennsylvania, and you watch Georgia, then you’re going to watch Michigan and Wisconsin, and you’re watching New Hampshire. They found a lot of votes up in New Hampshire just now ... you saw that?” he added, though it was unclear what Trump was referring to.
“This was a rigged election, everybody knows it, and we’re going to be watching it very closely,” he concluded.
There’s absolutely no evidence it was a rigged election.
The current controversial audit of 2.1 million Maricopa County votes for president and Senate — races won by Democrats — is being headed up by the Cyber Ninjas company, which is owned by a promoter of the “Stop the Steal” lie that the election was rigged against Trump. Owner Doug Logan retweeted messages months ago that an audit of the Arizona ballots would find hundreds of thousands of votes for Trump. The Florida-based Cyber Ninjas company has no experience with elections or ballots. The firm, hired by Arizona’s GOP Senate, failed in court to keep its recount operation secret. Voter and civil rights organizations are so alarmed that they’ve written to the Justice Department for federal monitors out of fear that ballots will be damaged, stolen, altered or lost.
Trump asks “multiple times a day” for an update on the operation, The Washington Post reported Thursday. He’s particularly entranced by Cyber Ninjas’ examination of the ballots with ultraviolet light, which some experts believe could damage them, according to the Post. It’s not known why Cyber Ninjas is using UV light.
In the latest alarming development, an Arizona Republic reporter on Friday snapped a photo of U.S. Capitol rally agitator and former Arizona Rep. Anthony Kern (R) reviewing ballots as part of the audit. Kern’s own name appears on the ballots he was reviewing. He lost a contest for reelection, coming in dead last in a three-way race. Kern is also listed as a presidential elector for Donald Trump on the ballot, according to the Republic. He’s also a disciple of the “Big Lie” and was photographed on the steps of the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection,
More than 40 Democrats in the Arizona state Legislature called on the Justice Department to investigate Kern after the Capitol siege. His “own social media posts strongly suggest” that Kern was “present at the riot in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, and actively encouraged the mob, both before and during the attack on the Capitol,” said the letter to the DOJ.
Arizona Republic reporter Ryan Randazzo was ejected from the recount operation at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum after he took Kern’s photo. He noted that boxes of ballots appeared to be shuffled around, and votes examined, with no obvious pattern of organization.
Critics have slammed the operation as a Trump rally, and in no way a reputable audit of anything.
The audit findings will have no effect on President Joe Biden’s victory in the state by a 0.3-point margin, which has long been officially certified. But claims of new votes for Trump could undermine faith in a legitimate election and lead to further unrest.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-mar-a-lago-arizona-recount-white-house_n_608dd30ce4b09cce6c1f2cac – emphasis/highlighting mine.
So Trump is correct, and there definitely was election fraud. But I'll betcha a dollar he never mentions that it was by Republicans and on HIS behalf.A man admitted to using his dead mother's name
to vote for Trump and blamed 'too much propaganda'
A Pennsylvania man who used his dead mother's name to vote for former President Donald Trump in last year's presidential election blamed "too much propaganda."
Bruce Bartman pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of unlawful voting and two counts of perjury, according to the Associated Press. The 70-year-old was sentenced to five years probation. He is also barred from voting for four years and he can't serve on a jury, the report said.
In court, Bartman apologized to the judge for his crimes and said he made a mistake. "I was isolated last year in lockdown," Bartman said in Delaware County Common Pleas Court, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. "I listened to too much propaganda and made a stupid mistake."
Bartman was accused of registering his deceased mother and mother-in-law on Pennsylvania online voter registration portal last August. He successfully cast a ballot in his mother's name to vote for Trump and other Republicans, Insider's Jacob Shamsian previously reported. He was charged in December in the midst of Trump's baseless claims about voter fraud in the presidential election.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bartman's lawyer doubled down on his client's remarks saying in court that his actions were "a very misguided political mistake, and very stupid."
In an interview with Insider in December, Stretton said his client thought he was participating in "civil disobedience" by illegally voting on behalf of his mother. "He was angry at people criticizing the president and complaining about the election process, and he wanted to do what he considered civil disobedience by registering his mother and voting her," Stretton previously told Insider. "Of course, he was wildly mistaken."
https://www.insider.com/pennsylvania-man-illegal-trump-vote-blamed-propaganda-2021-5
On the other hand, maybe we SHOULD let him back into the White House. He's already the only president to be impeached twice in a single term; he could become the only president to be impeached THREE times.
-"BB"-