In right now’s episode of Trump Is A Liar And A Moron Who Has Surrounded Himself With Mendacity Morons, President Donald Trump and his MAGA-fied Division of Justice are nonetheless — greater than 5 years later — making an attempt to persuade America that the 2020 presidential race was stolen from the man who, in all honesty, seems to be depressing now that he’s president in 2025.
Whereas the DOJ is submitting lawsuits in opposition to states for — oh, I don’t know — working free and truthful elections that didn’t produce the outcomes Trump needed, Trump is out right here claiming he’ll subject a “full pardon” to a girl convicted of state costs associated to 2020 election interference.
Y’all, the president of the US doesn’t know the way elections work or that the federal govt workplace has no energy to pardon state-level convictions.
Idiocracy was a premonition, not a movie.
From ABC Information:
President Donald Trump claimed that he’s granting a “full pardon” to Tina Peters, a former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk who was sentenced to 9 years on state-level costs associated to election interference in the course of the 2020 election.
Peters was convicted in August 2024 for giving a person affiliated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump ally, entry to the election software program she used for her county. Screenshots of the software program appeared on right-wing web sites that promoted false theories that the 2020 election was fraudulent.
Nonetheless, the president doesn’t have jurisdiction over state costs, and Colorado officers are pushing again, contending that the president’s promise of a pardon is unconstitutional. Trump’s announcement, which he made on social media Thursday, now probably units up a authorized battle for Peters, who has been searching for a pardon from Trump.
Regardless of President Trump’s repeated assertions that the election was rigged, there have been no confirmed circumstances of main fraud that affected the result.
Trump has repeatedly referred to as for Peters to be launched from her nine-year sentence, and on Thursday evening mentioned on social media that he was “granting Tina a full Pardon for her makes an attempt to show Voter Fraud within the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!”
“Tina is sitting in a Colorado jail for the ‘crime’ of demanding Trustworthy Elections,” he mentioned.
No, Tina Peters is sitting in a Colorado jail as a result of she broke election legal guidelines, which, by the way, is what the DOJ is accusing 4 states and one locality of on the federal degree.
In a press launch revealed Friday, the DOJ introduced that its civil rights division “has filed federal lawsuits in opposition to 4 states — Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada — for failure to provide their statewide voter registration lists upon request.”
“This brings the Justice Division’s nationwide complete to 18,” the DOJ continued, implying that it had already wasted 14 different states’ time with this nonsense. “The Civil Rights Division can be suing one locality — Fulton County, Georgia — for information associated to the 2020 election.”
However why, although?
Why should DOJ officers spend each waking second following behind Trump and mirroring his delusions? Throughout his first time period, they weren’t like this. That Division of Justice advised him there was no proof of a rigged election, as did the lawyer common, the top of election cybersecurity, and dozens of judges throughout decrease courts, appellate courts, and supreme courts, a lot of whom made it clear to Trump then that he has no authority to dictate to particular person states how they have to conduct their elections.
“States have the statutory responsibility to protect and defend their constituents from vote dilution,” mentioned Assistant Lawyer Common Harmeet Okay. Dhillon of the Justice Division’s Civil Rights Division. “At this Division of Justice, we is not going to allow states to jeopardize the integrity and effectiveness of elections by refusing to abide by our federal elections legal guidelines. If states is not going to fulfill their responsibility to guard the integrity of the poll, we’ll.”
Whether or not or not the DOJ truly has the authorized authority to demand that any state hand over its election information on command, the federal government is clearly placing the cart earlier than the horse on the general subject at hand. What proof has Trump, the GOP, or both of his administrations ever supplied that anybody’s vote was ever in peril of “dilution” in 2020, or that the “integrity and effectiveness of elections” was ever even in query in any state? What proof have they proven that the “integrity of the poll” wants defending from anybody however Republican propagandists?
Y’all, we’re speaking a few authorities that doesn’t know the way the federal government works. That’s why the president thinks he can subject a state pardon, and the Division of Justice doesn’t know sufficient concerning the legislation to attain and even discern justice.
It’s so dumb out right here in these MAGA streets.
So dumb.
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