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Rep. Thomas Massie Warns Colorado, Maine that House Will Still Certify their Electors

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Representative Thomas Massie, R-Ky., cautioned states taking measures to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot that the certifying of state electors will still be a decision of the House of Representatives.

“Maine, Colorado, and other states that might try to bureaucratically deny ballot access to any Republican nominee should remember the U.S. House of Representatives is the ultimate arbiter of whether to certify electors from those states.”

The proprietor of X, Elon Musk, responded to Massie’s remark with the word “Interesting.”

Earlier this month, the Colorado Supreme Court rendered a verdict stating that Trump, despite never being charged nor convicted, participated in a insurrection against the United States during the Capitol disturbance on January 6, 2021. As a result, the court ruled that Trump is ineligible to run for president in 2024 under the 14th Amendment.

Using the same reasoning, Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows of Maine removed Trump from that state’s primary ballot on Thursday.

Trump has pledged to appeal the decisions to the U.S. Supreme Court and has denied the allegations. According to the Colorado Secretary of State, Trump will be included on the primary ballot.

Additionally, the Republican Parties of Colorado and Maine are appealing the rulings to the Supreme Court.

Vote to Remove Trump From Ballot in Maine Raises Stakes for U.S. Supreme Court

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The decision by Maine to join other states in disqualifying Donald Trump from the ballot increases the urgency for the U.S. Supreme Court to promptly intervene. According to experts, this case may also determine whether states have the authority to enforce a power that Congress expressly granted to itself.

As Colorado’s all-Democrat Supreme Court ruled last week and Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows declared Thursday, much of the debate over whether Trump can be disqualified under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution has centered on whether the former president’s conduct and speech on January 6, 2021, met the amendment’s definition of “engaging in insurrection or rebellion.”

However, due to the language in the final clause of the post-Civil War amendment, legal analysts assert that the high court might have a rather straightforward endeavor.

“The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article,” The amendment specifies, for further clarity, that a candidate convicted of insurrection could also be permitted to appear on a ballot by a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate.

“I think the Supreme Court will focus on the fact that there is no authority in the 14th Amendment for application by state courts. There is no application by courts at all,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said in a video he posted on the X social media platform.

Dershowitz told John Solomon’s Just the News separately that he expects Maine’s declaration and Colorado’s decision to both be overturned.

Mike Davis, a former attorney for the Senate Judiciary Committee and the originator of the Article III Project think tank, asserts that the 14th Amendment is not subject to state enforcement. “It must be done by Congress.”

He noted that after the 14th amendment, Congress enacted a law for criminal prosecution of insurrection, and he believes a candidate would have to be convicted under that law for the disqualification clause to apply.

The Colorado State Republican Party’s appeal of the state Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday evening also relies on this interpretation of the amendment. It partially requested the nine justices to ascertain “whether Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is self-executing to the extent of allowing states to remove candidates from the ballot in the absence of any Congressional action authorizing such process.”

Although legal ramifications continue to accumulate, the response to Maine’s ruling was prompt.

Republican Senate candidate in Arizona Kari Lake defended Trump, claiming that she believed voter suppression had occurred.

“Democrats fear they can’t beat President Donald J. Trump at the ballot box, so they’re trying to take him off the ballot altogether and deprive American citizens of their sacred right to choose their next President,” Lake wrote in a statement. “A politician unilaterally booting a presidential candidate off the ballot is voter suppression of the highest level.”

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy characterized the current situation as a “threat to democracy.”

“The system is hellbent on taking this man out, the Constitution be damned,” Ramaswamy wrote. “I stand by my prior pledge to *withdraw* from any state’s ballot that ultimately removes Trump from its ballot. I call on DeSantis, Christie, and Haley to do the same – or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal and brazen election interference in the GOP primary. This cancer in American politics isn’t limited to the Democrats.”

For her part, and despite being viewed with suspicion by the greater MAGA contingent, Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee Ronna McDaniel stated that the organization is eager to assist in the courtroom challenge to the ruling.

“Democrat election interference, just like we saw in Colorado,” McDaniel wrote. “State officials do not get to decide who the American people cast their vote for. We look forward to helping fight this legal battle in the US Supreme Court.”

 

 

List of Known Election Fraud, Interference, Rigging from the 2020 Election in Swing States

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Former President Donald Trump, in a letter sent to Judge Bennie G. Thompson on October 13th, 2022, outlined examples of potential election rigging by state.

You can read the full letter HERE.

Arizona

• Maricopa County accepted at least 20,000 mail-in ballots after Election
Day 2020, including 18,000 on November 4, 2020, picked up from the
U.S. Postal Service—more than the entire Election margin of 10,457
ballots.

• A study of early ballot envelope signatures identified 229,430
mismatched signatures in Maricopa County. Officials only reported
25,000 mismatches, or 1.3%.

• The Arizona Forensic Audit of Maricopa County identified numerous
anomalies, fraud, and Election law violations that are determinative,
including 17,322 duplicate absentee ballot envelopes, which surged
after the Election. Between November 4th and November 9th, scores
of mail-in ballot duplicates emerged. 96% of the ballots that came in on
two of these days were duplicates.

• Auditors discovered evidence that millions of files of General Election
data and security logs were deleted, with purges taking place on critical
days, including the day before the audit began on February 2, 2021.

• The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors admitted they purged the
system and moved Election data after they received a subpoena.

• Another analysis by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai in Pima County found
significant anomalies with mail-in ballots. In precincts with anomalous
high turnout (over 92%), mail-in ballots started flipping from 6%
Republican for Biden to 40% of Republicans voting for Biden, which is
highly suspect.

• Two precincts in Pima had over 100 percent turnout for mail-in
ballots— which is impossible—and 40 precincts had over 97%
returned.

• The audit discovered numerous State Election laws were broken in the
2020 Presidential Election, including A.R.S. 16-547, A.R.S. 16-548,
A.R.S. 16-550, A.R.S. 16-551, A.R.S. 16-552, A.R.S. 16-621, A.R.S.
16 Articles 1, 1.1, and 2.

• 2,500 duplicated ballots created from a damaged ballot had no serial
numbers, a violation of A.R.S. 16-621.

• 1,919 mail-in ballot envelopes were missing signatures, a violation of
A.R.S. 16-547.

• Maricopa County reported 1,455 “no signatures” on mail-in ballot
envelopes.

• To this day, Maricopa County has never provided chain of custody
documents for all Election equipment and ballots, in violation of A.R.S.
16-621 E.

• At least 740,000 ballots violated chain of custody requirements in
Maricopa County.

Georgia

• 43,907 ballots from Facebook-funded drop boxes were counted in
DeKalb County that violated the chain of custody rules. Remember,
Georgia was decided by 11,779 votes.

• Poll workers were caught scanning ballots multiple times on camera in
Fulton County. Ballot images confirmed at least 3,390 duplicate votes
were counted for Joe Biden.

• At least 10,300 illegally cast votes in Georgia (and up to 35,000) are
from individuals who voted in the wrong county, more than necessary
to “tip the 2020 results.”

• Brad Raffensperger’s own investigator in Fulton County reported
ballots were “unaccounted for.” He witnessed at least 2,800 ballots that
“came in mail carts instead of black ballot bins,” violating chain of
custody, and reported 1,200 ballots that were “cured” and “wheeled in
through the back door” days after Election Day, when President
Trump’s massive lead “shrunk as more votes continue to be tallied in
Fulton County.”

• The investigator also found “identical vote tallies repeated multiple
times” that “likely resulted in about 1,000 extra votes being tallied” for
Joe Biden.

• A week after this private memo was sent to him, Brad Raffensperger
falsely claimed publicly the Election results were “trustworthy” and
“sound,” when he knew they were not.

• Raffensperger was told of numerous irregularities on a video
conference call with Republicans after the 2020 Election, that put “the
outcome of the Election into doubt.” including an admission from an
Elections Board Member in Gwinnett County that, “We have way more
ballots than we have envelopes. I don’t think it was done right.”

• Hundreds of voters were taken away from “Trump” after Election
workers altered ballots that were rejected by voting machines.
“Trump” votes were thrown out, while spoiled ballots were unlawfully
counted for Joe Biden.

• During the hand recount, tally sheets were falsified showing unanimous
vote counts for Joe Biden, including 100-0 and 200-0 fraudulent
counts.

Michigan

• Officials in Detroit illegally blocked Republican poll challengers’
access, covered the windows, called the police, and denied lawful
challenges in order to count ballots in secret.

• Affidavits and video evidence show thousands of ballots being
delivered through a back door of the then-named TCF Center at 3:30
a.m. on Election night. The RINOs in the State Senate confirmed this
also in their report analyzing the 2020 Election, and said a “large
volume” of ballots were delivered to the TCF Center with no chain of
custody. Those ballots came from drop boxes.

• Matt DePerno found voting machines were subverted and accessed
remotely. In Antrim County, 7,048 votes were changed in favor of Joe
Biden.

Pennsylvania

• In Pennsylvania, as of February 2021, there were 121,240 more votes
than voters. By law, Pennsylvania cannot certify an Election with this
type of discrepancy.

• A lawsuit filed in Delaware County revealed video evidence of
Election officials discussing destroying Election evidence from
November 2020. “It’s a felony,” one official says after talking about
the need to “get rid” of voting “pads and second scanners.” Videos and
sources involved in the litigation say the Delaware County officials
“violated numerous Election laws and needed to hide evidence,” and
that the destruction of records was “done to ensure records eventually
provided actually matched the Election results that were reported in
Nov. 2020.”

• Attorney General Bill Barr ordered U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain to
stand down and not investigate Election irregularities, even after
McSwain reported that his office “received various allegations of voter
fraud and election irregularities.”

Wisconsin

• In Wisconsin, nearly 200,000 voters identified as “indefinitely
confined,” even though that was often not the case. They were simply
using COVID as a means to skirt Voter ID laws for mail-in ballots.
These ballots should have been thrown out. After the 2020 Presidential
Election, a judge ruled the Democrat Governor did not have legal
authority “to exempt all voters to get an absentee ballot without an ID.”

• 44,272 people, according to the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau,
voted in November 2020, without ever showing Voter ID, which is
more than twice the vote margin in the State.

• The Wisconsin Election Commission ordered nursing homes to violate
Election laws, leading to widespread voter fraud and 95 to 100%
turnout in nursing homes—an impossibility!

• In a powerful ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, drop boxes that
were used in the 2020 Election were found to be illegal. In a
concurring opinion, justices stated, “If elections are conducted outside
of the law, the people have not conferred their consent on the
government. Such elections are unlawful and their results are
illegitimate.”

As per Trumps letter:

“We have only covered five Swing States, this does not pertain to the rest of
the Country. For example, what is being done about the “cash for votes”
scheme in Nevada, where 15 out of 17 counties had more votes than voters?
Is the Committee going to report on the million dollars the FBI wanted to pay
Christopher Steele as an incentive to prove the dossier allegations and “Get
Trump,” or is it going to get to the bottom of the fact that my Campaign was
blatantly spied on by the Democrats, even while I was in the Oval Office, in
what for anyone else would be one of the biggest scandals in political
history?

It was also recently reported that the FBI interfered in the 2020 Presidential
Election by telling Facebook and the Media not to reveal anything about

Hunter Biden’s laptop. The FBI said it was “Russian disinformation,” but
knew that it wasn’t. It was a well-guarded secret that only one newspaper
had the courage to report. Eight in 10 Americans believe this unprecedented
collusion impacted the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election.

In addition, True the Vote, the Nation’s leading voters’ rights organization,
collected over 4 million minutes of ballot drop box video, showing ballot
stuffing at a level not seen before. This is also supported by highly accurate
cell phone data that tracked the same individuals going to as many as 28
different locations in one day to do this. All in all, millions of ballots were
stuffed. Based on their research, True the Vote estimates as many as 7% of
all mail-in ballots cast could have been ineligible—approximately 4.8 million
votes, an Election-changing number many times over.

Also, why haven’t you spoken with the USPS Inspector General, and the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission, about the 1.1 million mail-in ballots that
they admit were deemed undeliverable, 560,814 rejected, and 14.7 million
still “unable to be tracked” (as the Public Interest Legal Foundation
uncovered)? Where are they?

To this day, new evidence is emerging as Patriots around the Country are
uncovering systemic problems within their voter rolls. Furthermore,
Republican counties across the nation, from Texas to Michigan, Arizona to
Wisconsin and more, have voted to decertify and reject the 2020 Election.
The most recent Rasmussen Poll on the issue found a staggering 55% think
cheating likely affected the outcome, including 53% of Independents and
35% of Democrats, revealing this issue is not going away.

There are many other facts and discrepancies that we are not presenting at
this time due to time constraints, but that are also Election determinative. At
your request, I will present these additional numbers to you, but everything
already presented would change the final Election result many times over.”

Is the FBI Vendetta Against Trump Supporters Worse than We Think?

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On Thursday, while on the Charlie Kirk show, Steve Bannon broke the news that “35 FBI raids” were conducted on Trump allies last week. The media remained silent as these raids took place across the country; however, reports indicate that the number of search warrants issued was actually much higher.

Tucker Carlson had Harmeet Dhillon of the Dhillon Law Group on his show Friday, where she elaborated on the details of the raids, saying that there were as many as fifty search warrants being served to various Trump-world confidants.

“… and I think the reason for this is to instill fear into Donald Trump supporters and into those who would challenge election irregularities right before an upcoming election… this is really outrageous abuse by the DOJ, and it is illegal for the DOJ to leak this information to the media…” 

Harmeet Dhillon has represented President Donald Trump in the past.

As previously mentioned, Steve Bannon was the one to first break the news while on the Charlie Kirk Show:

Bannon expressed concern that they would likely be targeting Turning Point USA as well, saying: “So, hey, Turning Point’s going to be a target, a big league target, Okay? So just stand by, Charlie. It’s all coming. It’s all going to come hard and heavy.”

According to the Washington Post article referenced by Steve Bannon during the interview, five Trump allies were served sweeping subpoenas demanding information on the Save America PAC.

“The Justice Department is seeking details about the formation and operation of Donald Trump’s post-presidential political operation, according to three people familiar with the probe, sending a raft of subpoenas in a significant expansion of the criminal investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election,”

“A federal grand jury sent subpoenas on Wednesday to a wide range of former campaign and White House staffers asking for information about the Save America PAC, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing probe,” the report added. “They described the subpoenas as broad, seeking all documents and communications about opening the PAC and every dollar raised and spent.”

Details are still emerging, this report will be updated as more information is made available.

Ex-FBI Intel Chief Believes DOJ has “No Case” Against Donald Trump

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A former assistant director of the FBI recently claimed that he thinks the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago shows that the government has “no case”.

The affidavit in question was released last week by a magistrate judge in response to court filings submitted by certain media outlets and third parties. The legal document, however, was heavily redacted and revealed very little about what the FBI agents were searching for on Aug. 8 and why.

Kevin R. Brock, the former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI and principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), wrote in an opinion piece Sunday:

“We now know why the DOJ wanted the affidavit—which is supposed to articulate the probable cause needed for a legitimate search—to be kept under seal,”

Brock then goes on to list his reasons for doubting the FBI:

“First, the affidavit confirmed that the FBI’s investigation was triggered in January 2022 at the request of the National Archives, which wanted certain documents, especially classified documents, that it considered to be presidential records to be turned over to it by Trump.” 

“Second, from what I have seen, I don’t believe the affidavit articulates how a federal law was or is being broken. For those who hold out hope that the affidavit’s redacted sections fill that gap, there is almost no chance that they do,” 

According to Brock, the document’s argument for probable cause only seems to include “half of what is needed to show a possible violation of the federal statutes that are cited in the warrant”. Brock added that in his experience, it’s unlikely that the government will release the redacted portions of the affidavit.

The contents of the affidavit that were not redacted, do not show sufficient cause to believe that Trump wasn’t authorized to have the documents at his Florida residence.

“A criminal violation of those statutes only exists if it can be established that the person being investigated was not authorized to possess, store, transfer or copy those documents… This is an easy element to establish against anyone in America. Except for one person.”

Former aides to the President, and even Trump himself, claim that there was a standing order to declassify any materials that left the White House for Mar-a-Lago.

Meanwhile, Trump wrote in October on his now-banned Twitter account that he had declassified some FBI-related materials. He also issued an order on Jan. 19, 2021, to declassify some FBI Crossfire Hurricane documents.

“As president, he had broad, legally intimidating authority, established by law and court determinations, to declassify any and all documents and to determine what is and is not a presidential record,” 

“Trump and his legal team have asserted that this authority was exercised while he was still president. Therefore, a violation of these fairly low-level and seldom-prosecuted document-oriented statutes cannot be proven.”