Trump Allies Invoked the 5th When Asked to Provide Proof to Back Up Stolen Election Claims

I cognize you’re going to beryllium shocked to observe that radical successful Trumpland lied to you, to each other, to judges, to tv anchors and newspapers, to everyone astir your votes.

They lied to everyone astir your votes and they knew that they had nary proof.

“Not a azygous witnesser — nor immoderate operation of witnesses– provided the Select Committee with grounds demonstrating that fraud occurred connected a standard adjacent remotely adjacent to changing the result successful immoderate State,” the executive summary of the January 6th Committee study reads connected leafage 16.

Rudy Giuliani admitted to the Committee that successful spite of his nationalist claims that Dominion voting machines stole the election, “I bash not deliberation that the machines stole the election.”

Other Trump lawyers and supporters invoked the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination erstwhile asked to supply impervious that the predetermination had been stolen, including Jenna Ellis, John Eastman, Phil Waldron, and Michael Flynn.

While this information mightiness look evident fixed that they mislaid each azygous tribunal situation but one, and that lawsuit was not astir uncovering fraud but alternatively reducing the clip voters successful Pennsylvania had to hole an mistake connected their ballot, it should beryllium established cognition that they filed implicit 60 lawsuits that lacked merit.

Those lawsuits lacked evidence. There was nary grounds that your votes shouldn’t count. Yet they tried to get votes thrown retired truthful Donald Trump could bargain an predetermination helium lost, and galore of his radicalized followers inactive judge to this time that helium won that election.

Nothing says emotion of state similar trying to disenfranchise millions of voters. And that is precisely what each of these Trump lawyers and allies were doing, knowingly. They knew they had nary grounds but they inactive sought to person your votes nullified successful an un-American effort to prehend power.

The DC Bar’s Board connected Professional Responsibility found Rudy Giuliani violated morals rules by making mendacious 2020 predetermination claims and should beryllium held liable for nonrecreational sanctions precisely due to the fact that helium did not person grounds of fraud BEFORE helium filed his lawsuits.

We discussed the stunning deficiency of grounds upon which Rudy Giuliani’s woman felt comfortable moving to bargain votes from The People connected a ample standard connected the PoliticusPod a fewer days ago.

The entitlement to effort to flip retired millions of votes based connected lies is shocking and should beryllium criminal. If determination isn’t a punishment paid, it’s fundamentally a greenish airy to anyone lacking motivation fibre and patriotism to conscionable effort to bargain elections from The People.

Shame connected everyone progressive successful Trump’s baseless crippled to bargain votes, which fed into and led up to the Trump violent onslaught connected January 6th. Lies person consequences. We saw that with the onslaught connected Paul Pelosi, and we saw it with the deadly onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol.

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