For five years, President Donald Trump has peddled the false, justly ridiculed claim that the 2020 election that he lost to former President Joe Biden was stolen from him. It is a false claim made even more notable, if possible, by the federal indictment issued by a grand jury finding probable cause to conclude that the only person who person to attempt to steal the 2020 election was … Donald Trump. There’s always debate about whether Trump makes these claims because he’s untethered or because he’s a con artist, but there’s absolutely no reason to think the two are mutually exclusive.
Some 60 separate courts rejected Trump’s claim that the 2020 results were marred by irregularity, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that a president of sound mind who found himself so thoroughly discredited would drop it and concentrate, say, on urging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents not to execute American citizens for protesting immigration policies. Trump’s fraudulent claims of fraud earned him a federal indictment, among other things, for conspiracy to defraud the United States.
The unfortunate lawyers who advanced those claims on his behalf have found themselves admonished, fined, disbarred or worse. Crash-and-Burn Poster Child Rudy Giuliani was tagged with a $148 million defamation judgment for falsely claiming that Georgia election workers engaged in wrongdoing. Trump media mouthpiece Fox News had to pay a voting systems company over $785 million for promoting Trump’s...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) has launched a new fact-check webpage to counter misleading information about Medicaid fraud in the state. “Speculation, intentio...