Trump lost by more than seven million votes, but his false claim that Democrats stole the election from him isn't just about 2020 anymore.
On March 28, 2022, a federal judge found that former President Donald Trump and attorney John Eastman engaged in "a coup in search of a legal theory." The court concluded that, more likely than not, their efforts to overturn the presidential election were federal crimes.
Knowing that Trump lost the popular vote in Wisconsin, Johnson echoes Gableman's recommendation that the Republican-controlled legislature replace the state's bipartisan Election Commission in overseeing federal elections.
The coup continues.
Trump lost by more than seven million votes, but his false claim that Democrats stole the election from him isn't just about 2020 anymore. It's about conditioning GOP voters for the ultimate Trump loyalty test: rejecting future elections that Trump or his designees lose. Sowing distrust in the system, Trump and his allies are proceeding state by state, one voter at a time.
"Look at Wisconsin"
On the eve of Wisconsin's annual Republican convention in June 2021, Trump issued a statement filled with his standard "pants-on-fire" lies. Although he lost all recounts and legal challenges seeking to reverse his 2020 loss, Trump threatened the state's GOP leaders with political annihilation if they didn't spread his Big Lie by pursuing an unwarranted post-election "audit" of Wisconsin votes.
Trump scared them into submission. The next day,...
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