On today’s BradCast: The story of Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey turns even more bizarre and takes a decidedly thuggish turn (don’t worry, your President is ‘not a crook’) and Vice President Mike Pence gets tapped to head Trump’s new “voter fraud” commission, despite his own (much overlooked) record of stoking false GOP allegations of “voter fraud” and helping to shut down a major registration drive in his home state, just before last year’s Presidential election, while campaigning for Veep and serving as Governor of Indiana.
First, the Trump/Comey affair turns more insane and Godfather-like by the hour…or Nixon-like, if you prefer, now that Trump has hinted there may be audio recordings of his private conversation with the now-former FBI Director. We bring you up to date on the latest madness and lies on that quickly moving soap opera, which continues to tie the White House into knots.
We then turn to the Executive Order signed this week by the President amidst all the Comey fallout, which creates a new sham commission, by fiat, to examine Trump’s false claims that as many as five million votes were illegally cast in the 2016 election. The so-called “Election Integrity Commission” — which, according to the Order, is to look at only voter and voter registration fraud, rather than voter suppression, which is a far more extensive problem or concerns about the vulnerability of vote casting and counting systems — is to be headed up by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas’ notorious vote-suppressing Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
While many may be familiar, by now, with Kobach’s years-long storied history of fraudulent ‘voter fraud’ claims, many are likely unaware of Pence’s efforts last year during the campaign, while serving as Indiana’s Governor, to suppress a major voter registration drive targeting African-Americans in Indiana, with false claims of “voter fraud” and the outrageously heavy-handed use of his State Police force.
On today’s show, we detail how the offices of the Indiana Voter Registration Project were raided and shut down, with computers, cell phones and paperwork confiscated by Pence’s cops, just days before the state’s October 11, 2016 voter registration deadline. The effort (also aided and abetted by the state’s Republican Sec. of State Connie Lawson, who is also set to serve on Trump’s phony commission), served to shut down the major registration drive by a Democratic-leaning organization and resulted in the Marion County Prosecutor demanding an end to misleading and suppressing public statements from Superintendent of the State Police. It did not, however, despite claims of “thousands” of fraudulent forms, result in any arrests, and it was all quickly forgotten, as usual, after Election Day. In all, some 50,000 valid registrations may have been scuttled in the Hoosier State, thanks to the false claims of forged and fraudulent registration forms across dozens of counties in what Pence described to brain-addled supporters on the campaign trail as a “vigorous investigation into voter fraud”.
Finally today: The White House lies about the number of new manufacturing and coal jobs created last month and North Carolina receives just 1% of their requested funding for Hurricane Matthew relief from Congress and the President…
The GOP are the Masters Of Election Fraud.
The Dems do it too.
But the GOP are un-beatable.
The 2016 story:
http://thesuspicionist.blogspot...y-clinton.html
Trivial spelling nitpick, first sentence: “you’re” > “your”.
On the substance: even at pro-Democratic site Daily Kos, back in December, many commenters were either blithely ignoring or outright denying the effect of voter suppression, which is why I posted The Elephant in the Room: Voter Suppression Was a Factor in the Election.
The media is also overlooking Pence’s lying. I would still like to know when the family values party thing it is OK to become the Liars party. From Trump to Pence to The little bandy rooster Sessions. They are all committing perjury every single day and getting away with it.