“Jones and [Roger] Stone amplified and intensified Trump’s incendiary and baseless claims that the 2020 election was illegitimate in the weeks leading up to the U.S. Capitol riot.”
Jack of Hearts: CPAC 2021 & 2022
America’s most prominent conservative gathering, founded on ideals of personal liberty and limited government, convened in Budapest in 2021 to celebrate a European leader accused of undermining democracy and individual rights. CPAC Goes Full Orbán: The right launders its support for Putin through the Hungarian autocrat. CPAC’s opening 2021 conference “included a look at ‘failed’ states —…
Five of Hearts : The House Freedom Caucus, an “insurrectionists’ clubhouse”
On the Hill, the different ideological factions inside the Party were known as the Five Families; the most unruly of these was the House Freedom Caucus, a group of thirty-three hard-line anti-institutionalists. The closest the conference came to a proactive message was its vow to investigate Joe Biden and to fight the scourge of the…
Two of Spades: Steve Bannon, self-professed Leninist, promoted Big Lie of Election Fraud
2020: Steve Bannon sought to overturn the certified results falsely alleging illegal voting, mail-in ballots and voting machines. He and Peter Navarro authored a plan “to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to misuse his role as the person officially counting electoral ballots and instead reject them, delaying the certification of Biden’s victory and giving Republican-controlled…
Three of Spades: U.S. Sen John Kennedy (LA), voted without evidence to refuse certifying electors from six states
Louisiana Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy joined an effort to refuse certifying electors from six states, in hopes of denying the presidency to the election’s winner, Joe Biden. Trump won those states in 2016, but voters there backed Biden in 2020. Undisputed Senate king of the waffle, Oxford, England-educated Sen. Kennedy then characteristically waffled: “You will never find…
Four of Spades: Scott Perry, Freedom Caucus chair, pushed baseless conspiracies to overturn 2020 election
Mr. Clark, Mr. Eastman and Mr. Perry all played roles in the effort to keep Mr. Trump in office, according to extensive evidence gathered by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House select committee that is looking into the events of Jan. 6. The men also each had direct dealings with Mr. Trump, meaning the…
Five of Spades: Eric Trump, backed baseless plan to challenge 2020 election results
Eric Trump ”liked” a Tweet identifying QAnon “Shaman” Jacob Chansley and the assault on the U.S. Capitol as “a staged #Antifa attack”. In response to such false accusations: Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro Blasts Pro-Trump Capitol Rioters, Says Don’t Blame Antifa: ‘You Did It’ Mr. Flynn was also present at the Trump International Hotel on Jan. 5 for a meeting that included about 15 people, where the…
Six of Spades: Jeffrey Clark, sought top DOJ position in order to overturn 2020 election
Mr. Clark caused outrage among his [Trump Justice Department] colleagues by advancing false election fraud claims and seeking to intervene in the presidential election in Georgia. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/14/us/politics/trump-georgia-indictment-key-players [Scott] Perry was deeply involved in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He connected former president Trump with…
Seven of Spades: U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, leading Big Lie advocate, is “the worst mistake” of Sen. Danforth’s life
Not content with his highly reported attempts to overturn the results of several 2020 state elections, which supported Biden, Hawley also supported the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, giving an arm-raised fist salute to the somewhat-deluded people who stormed the Capitol in hopes of stopping the certification of state’s election results. In April…
Eight of Spades: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC), Georgia on his mind
Six days after major news organizations declared Donald J. Trump the loser of the 2020 presidential election, his allies were applying a desperate full-court press in an effort to turn his defeat around, particularly in Georgia. The pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell went on television claiming that there was abundant evidence of foreign election meddling that…