Senate Hearing on Election 'Irregularities' Highlights Trump's Reckless Disregard for the Truth
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Trump ally, now concedes there is no credible evidence to support the president's fanciful conspiracy theory.
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Trump ally, now concedes there is no credible evidence to support the president's fanciful conspiracy theory.
The strategy of lodging objections under the Electoral Count Act has been tried before, but it has never succeeded.
Given the conspicuous lack of credible evidence, the president's charges can be accepted only as a matter of faith.
The president and his diehard allies in Congress continue to insist the election was stolen.
Although the president says the justices "chickened out," other courts have considered and rejected the merits of his legal arguments.
By his own account, the Texas senator is committed to defending a dishonest, amoral, narcissistic bully.
Seeking to join a last-ditch effort to overturn Joe Biden's victory, the president's attorney says "it is not necessary...to prove that fraud occurred."
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The justices declined to intervene on behalf of Republicans who challenged absentee voting in Pennsylvania.
According to the ruling, the former Trump attorney also filed the wrong claims in the wrong court at the wrong time on behalf of the wrong plaintiffs.
"Don't listen to my friends," the president says, referring to supporters who took his fraud allegations seriously.
"This is about restoring faith and confidence in American elections," the president says.
The former Trump attorney's election fraud lawsuits feature the same sort of dubious evidence that has failed to impress courts across the country.
Fox News interviewer Maria Bartiromo uncritically accepts Trump's outlandish conspiracy theory.
"The Campaign cannot win this lawsuit," the 3rd Circuit says. "The Campaign's claims have no merit."
At least nine GOP senators are publicly urging the president to concede or questioning his claim that he actually won.
Both the president and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have publicly embraced Powell's wild claims about voting machine manipulation.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann rejected an attempt to block certification of Pennsylvania's election results.
Although the president's lawyer says the anti-Trump conspiracy is "easily provable," the affidavits he cites fall notably short.
The fabulism that is inseparable from Trumpism can conjure up "millions" of stolen votes as easily as "more than a MILLION" protesters.
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The president still insists the election was stolen by a vast criminal conspiracy.
Even if the GOP's complaints are valid, they do not prove a vast anti-Trump conspiracy.
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The nefarious scheme evidently includes Republican officials and Trump-friendly news outlets.
The only person he needs to convince is himself.
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What is the platform accomplishing by calling further attention to the president's wild claims of voting fraud?
The president's complaints about "a major fraud" present a familiar puzzle.
Turns out some of the federal government's PPP loans ended up going to people who didn't need them quite as badly.
The lawsuit accuses the group's leaders of fraudulently diverted millions of dollars to prop up their luxury lifestyles.
New York Attorney General Letitia James loses a trumped up fraud lawsuit against the oil company.
Double jeopardy or a way of circumventing a potential Trump pardon? Or both?
Cheating scandal should have taxpayers asking whether it's right to subsidize the campus party lifestyles of celebrity scions who fake water polo careers.
Kevin Sweeney pleaded guilty to fraud. He is the sixth state trooper to be accused of lying to get more overtime.
Department of Veterans Affairs
Kenneth Richard Devore used his position to list himself as the sole beneficiary to a disabled veteran's assets. Then he got another federal job.
The federal charges against Mack highlight how human trafficking hysteria harms vulnerable women.
Lawyers look to cash in for the silliest of reasons.
Smaller government has the possibility to be more honest government.
A investigation released today shows how Ballou High School graduated a whole class of seniors despite rampant absenteeism and failing test scores.
The technology promises to be a secure and efficient way of confirming voter ID.
The Department of Justice says it's shutting down the dragnet program that targeted porn makers, payday lenders, gun shops, and other small businesses.
New presidential election integrity advisory commission might actually help despite the delusions on which it is based.
The president's adviser says massive voting fraud by buses full of Massachusetts residents is "widely known."
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