{"id":14196,"date":"2022-03-10T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14196"},"modified":"2022-03-10T19:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T03:16:51","slug":"accountability-now-arriving-for-2020-election-fraud-fraudsters-dupes-bradcast-3102022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14196","title":{"rendered":"Accountability Now Arriving for 2020 &#8216;Election Fraud&#8217; Fraudsters, Dupes: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 3\/10\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Cawthorn-Peters-Bartiromo-Dobbs-Giuliani_031022.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>: It&#8217;s been a very bad week for the pretend &#8220;law and order&#8221; rightwingers dumb enough to have been suckered by Donald Trump&#8217;s 2020 &#8220;election fraud&#8221; hoax. But it&#8217;s likely to get still worse for them in the days ahead. That&#8217;s fine by us. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>After a quick update today on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-381a42b2a97f933ff1e336983c7a8101\">latest<\/a> grim, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/03\/09\/russian-ukraine-war-will-get-worse-before-it-gets-better-army-secretary-christine-wormuth-says.html\">getting grimmer<\/a>, news out of Ukraine as Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin begins his third week of unspeakable barbarism, here are some of the much less grim stories we actually <i>enjoyed<\/i> covering today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14194\">Yesterday<\/a>, we reported on the ongoing challenge (and <a href=\"https:\/\/freespeechforpeople.org\/north-carolina-voters-file-emergency-appeal-of-lower-federal-court-decision-blocking-their-challenge-to-madison-cawthorn-under-the-insurrectionist-disqualification-clause\/\">emergency appeal<\/a> filed after a bizarre ruling by a Trump-appointed judge) to <b>North Carolina<\/b> Rep. <b>Madison Cawthorn<\/b>&#8216;s eligibility to run for re-election this year. The challengers, including our guest, Constitutional law expert Ron Fein of <a href=\"https:\/\/14point3.org\">Free Speech for People<\/a>, contend that Cawthorn is ineligible to run for federal office, after having violated the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/amendment-14\/section-3\/\">14th Amendment&#8217;s ban<\/a> on those who &#8220;have engaged in insurrection&#8221; after taking an oath to defend the Constitution. But, no sooner did we get off air when news broke that Cawthorn was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/story\/news\/2022\/03\/09\/nc-rep-madison-cawthorn-charged-driving-revoked-license-court\/9439056002\/\">charged in NC<\/a> with driving with a revoked license.  Apparently, this is the second time he has been charged with the same crime. Will he face any real accountability for it this time around? The max sentence for that is 20 days in jail in NC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On the federal level, Attorney General <b>Merrick Garland<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/10\/politics\/merrick-garland-january-6\/index.html\">insisted<\/a> today that his Justice Department will &#8220;not shy away from cases that are controversial or sensitive or political,&#8221; telling reporters that &#8220;to do that would undermine an element of the rule of law.&#8221; Glad to hear it. His comments came in response to questions about the DoJ&#8217;s January 6th investigation and whether Trump and those around him would ever face accountability, as hundreds of low-level insurrectionists have faced charges for storming the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, after being being incited by the disgraced former President and his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Tina Peters<\/b>, a <b>Colorado<\/b> elections official arguably incited to criminal acts by Trump&#8217;s lies, is now facing state charges for them. She is the very Trumpy Republican Mesa County Clerk who recently announced her intention to run for Secretary of State. Peters turned herself into custody on Wednesday night after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2022\/03\/09\/mesa-clerk-tina-peters-charged-by-grand-jury-in-election-security-breach\/\">indicted this week<\/a> on 10 counts related to elections tampering. (A perfect resume for a GOP Sec. of State contender!) We&#8217;ve been reporting in detail on Peters over the past year, after she allegedly snuck into a secure facility where voting systems are stored in Mesa County along with accomplices (one of them her Deputy, who was also charged this week), turned off the security cameras, and then made copies of hard-drives with critical and proprietary <b>Dominion Voting System<\/b> software on them. Dominion&#8217;s Election Management System software from Mesa was <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13962\">subsequently released<\/a>, along with passwords to the system, to the Internet a few months later during one of conspiracy theorist and pillow magnate <b>Mike Lindell<\/b>&#8216;s &#8220;election fraud&#8221; symposiums, just as Peters was speaking at the forum. The <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13969\">serious security breach<\/a> with the public release of that software led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13985\">bit of havoc<\/a> in California&#8217;s Gubernatorial Recall election just weeks later, where the same Dominion systems were used in several counties. We revisit the sprawling story of how we got here, as the loony Peters finally appears set to pay a very high price for being dumb enough to buy into Trump&#8217;s con.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And then there was more bad news this week for <b>Fox &#8220;News&#8221;<\/b> and several of the top clods and dupes who host programs on their various channels. A New York judge denied the motions to dismiss filed by Fox and a number of their top anchors, such as <b>Maria Bartiromo<\/b> and <b>Lou Dobbs<\/b>, in the $2.7 <i>billion<\/i> defamation lawsuit filed against them and conspiracy theorist\/grifter attorneys <b>Rudy Giuliani<\/b> and <b>Sidney Powell<\/b> by voting system company <b>Smartmatic<\/b>.  &#8220;At a minimum,&#8221; the judge found in his <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/new-york-supreme-court-judge-david-cohen-allow-smartmatic-defamation-lawsuit-fox-news-proceed\">61-page ruling<\/a>, &#8220;Fox News turned a blind eye to a litany of outrageous claims about plaintiffs, unprecedented in the history of American elections, so inherently improbable that it evinced a reckless disregard for the truth.&#8221;  That means the case against most of them will now move forward toward discovery and trial. (Several of those &#8220;inherently improbable&#8221; claims were based on <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7906\">The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s own accurate, exclusive reporting back in 2010,<\/a> which Powell, et al, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13643\">bastardized<\/a> to fit their pretend theories about massive election fraud.) Interestingly, the judge also cites a bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/09\/judge-uses-tucker-carlsons-own-words-against-fox-news\/\">accidentally <i>responsible<\/i> reporting<\/a> from Fox star <b>Tucker Carlson<\/b> to underscore just how irresponsible the others were, in the judge&#8217;s &#8220;finding that there is a substantial basis that Fox News acted with actual malice.&#8221;  The New York ruling follows a similar one from a judge in Delaware last December, who also <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/fox-news-dealt-major-setback-in-dominions-mega-defamation-case\">rejected motions to dismiss<\/a> from many of the same clowns in Dominion Voting Systems&#8217; separate $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In <b>Texas<\/b>, which held this year&#8217;s first-in-the-nation midterm primary elections last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-elections-austin-texas-voting-f28a41bf6482c25299c99a8ea52734be\">AP finds<\/a> that an extraordinary 27,000 mail ballots &#8212; from both Democrats and Republican voters &#8212; were flagged for rejection under the Lone Star State&#8217;s new voter suppression law passed last year in pretend response to Trump&#8217;s claims about a stolen 2020 election. The initial rejection rate was approximately 17% statewide and substantially higher in a number of large, Democratic-leaning counties. That, compared with a statewide rejection rate of about 1% of absentee mail ballots back in 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14195\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with more disturbing fallout (and, maybe, some theoretical upsides) regarding <b>energy and security<\/b> in the wake of Russia&#8217;s horrific invasion of Ukraine&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-RussiaUkraine-CawthornDriving-PetersIndicted-FoxSmartmaticSuit-BallotRejectionsTX_031022.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast: It&#8217;s been a very bad week for the pretend &#8220;law and order&#8221; rightwingers dumb enough to have been suckered by Donald Trump&#8217;s 2020 &#8220;election fraud&#8221; hoax. But it&#8217;s likely to get still worse for them in the days ahead. That&#8217;s fine by us. 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