The 2020 Presidential race

As of January 20, 2021, Donald Trump is no longer the Liar-In-Chief. Now he's just a liar.

Analysis: Trump is doing more lying about the election than talking about any other subject
A third of Trump's statements since leaving office have perpetuated lies about the 2020 election

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/12/polit...ncy/index.html

Attorney General William Barr said there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election. He dared to contradict "The Big Lie" that Trump won the election but it was "stolen" from him. In December 2020, Trump replaced Barr with Jeffrey Rosen – and immediately began pressuring Rosen to challenge the election results. Today we're learning the details.

New emails show how Trump and his allies pressured Justice Department to try to challenge 2020 election results

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/15/polit...ion/index.html

Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Cleta Mitchell, L. Lin Wood, Joe diGenova and other sleazy lawyers helped Donald Trump spread The Big Lie that he won the 2020 Presidential election but it was "stolen" from him – and now these lawyers need lawyers.

Woes mount for legal loyalists who pushed Trump’s election conspiracies
The Guardian, Jun 16 2021 2:00 EDT

A crew of conservative lawyers still pushing disinformation that echoes Donald Trump’s false claim that the election was rigged are now battling federal inquiries, defamation lawsuits and bar association scrutiny that threaten to cripple their legal careers. Former Justice Department officials say Trump’s legal loyalists are weakening trust in the American electoral system via persistent repetition of his baseless claims. They note that some are actively backing Republican drives in key states to change election laws seen as undermining voting rights for communities of color.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ell-l-lin-wood

Harrington says it's an honor to "stand for the truth" – and yet she continues to promote The Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 Presidential election but the victory was "stolen" from him. Welcome to Trumpworld, the topsy-turvy land where bad is good, wrong is right, down is up, Trump won the election "in a landslide" and there was no insurrection at the Capitol.

Trump's new chief spokeswoman, Liz Harrington, has been a serial promoter of election lies

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/18/polit...ion/index.html

Spreading The Big Lie has resulted in The Big Loss of his license to practice law in New York. Good!

Rudy Giuliani’s law license suspended in New York
Court concluded the former Mayor made false and misleading statements in his effort to reverse the results of the 2020 election in favor of ex-President Donald Trump.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rudy-gi...rk-11624550163

Deranged, demented, delusional Donald and his blindly loyal supporters will continue to believe The Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 Presidential election but it was "stolen" from him. Delusional Donald continues to rant that the election was "rigged" and "fraudulent." Those of us who live in the real world, and not Trumpworld, know it was the most free, fair election in United States history..

Trump's big lie about 2020 results suffers legal and political blows in key swing states
CNN, Jun 27 2021 11:24 AM ET

It was a bad week for the Big Lie – former President Donald Trump and his allies' false claims that widespread fraud is to blame for his 2020 election loss. In one battleground state, Republican Senators issued a report that eviscerated Trump's lies about voter fraud. In another, a judge undercut Trump's supporters' hopes to examine nearly 150,000 mail-in ballots. And one of Trump's closest allies, Rudy Giuliani, was suspended from practicing law in New York.

Trump and his conspiracy-minded supporters have eagerly been anticipating the conclusion of the problem-plagued audit of Maricopa County's results in Arizona, but regardless of its final report, it will have no impact on the 2020 election results, as the election was already certified. Trump repeated his election lies at a rally in Ohio Saturday night, but last week's blows underscored the reality that their options to continue contesting the 2020 election are narrowing.

In Michigan, the Republican-led state Senate Oversight Committee said in a report that there was "no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud" in the state's 2020 election. The report included a stinging condemnation of the lies about voter fraud pushed by Trump and his supporters. In Georgia, a judge dismissed most of a lawsuit that claimed fraudulent mail-in ballots had been cast in Fulton County, the state's largest county, in last year's election – a blow to the pro-Trump plaintiffs' bid to conduct an in-person examination of nearly 150,000 mail-in ballots with high-powered microscopes.

Giuliani, who had been Trump's personal lawyer and one of Trump's closest allies in advancing lies about the 2020 election, was suspended from practicing law in New York state by an appellate court that found he made "demonstrably false and misleading statements" about the 2020 election.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/27/polit...ing/index.html

Since 2012, political events have been banned at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial. That's okay, delusional Donald. You still have plenty of other places where you can hold rallies and continue to spread The Big Lie that you won the 2020 Presidential election but it was "stolen" from you.

Trump July 4th rally in Alabama canceled by concerned local officials
Officials worried event would be too 'partisan.'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1874973.html

Wow, still obsessing over Trump?

As Donald Trump well knows, tell a lie often enough and people will start to believe it – especially if they're blindly loyal Trump supporters.

'The big lie' leads to a disturbing sight in Philadelphia
Hundreds of members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched in downtown Philadelphia on July 4, chanting "The election was stolen" and "Reclaim America."

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...t-ebof-vpx.cnn

With very few exceptions, it seems "Once a Retrumplican, always a Retrumplican." Retrumplicans believe The Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 Presidential election. They believe The Big Lie that there was widespread voter fraud. They believe The Big Lie that the election was "stolen." They believe The Big Lie that Biden is not our legitimately elected President. Retrumplicans have sold their souls to Donald Trump and they continue to be blindly loyal members of his cult, the Cult of Donald Trump.

GOP candidates back Trump's election lies across political map
Republican candidates are increasingly focusing their 2021-2022 campaigns on the baseless claim that voter fraud was a rampant problem in the 2020 election.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/polit...lie/index.html

Retrumplicans define "patriotism" as being loyal to Donald Trump: protecting him, defending him, supporting him and believing his lies. The United States of America, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, our democracy and the rule of law are immaterial and unimportant.

They rejected democracy. They lied. And they spent July Fourth calling themselves patriots.
The 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the Presidential election and fueled the insurrection are all celebrating their love of America now.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/repub...b0e01b6b233fc3

Retrumplicans are not concerning themselves with the 2024 Presidential election. They're much too busy contesting the 2020 election and trying to get the results overturned. (Spoiler alert: Trump lost. Biden won. None of these phony "audits" will change anything.)

Trump-allied Senator Doug Mastriano floats Pennsylvania audit plan that Democrats slam as political ploy

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/07/polit...dit/index.html

Whatever bizarre ailment is making Donald Trump so demented, deranged and delusional, it's continuing to spread. Trump keeps insisting he won the 2020 Presidential election. (He didn't.) Trump's blindly loyal supporters believe he won the 2020 Presidential election. (He didn't). Fifty-three percent of Retrumplicans believe Trump won the 2020 Presidential election. (He didn't).

Trump's false election claims persist at conservative gathering in Texas

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/11/polit...ims/index.html

I'm not a psychiatrist nor do I play one on TV. But 86 pages of obsessing over Trump can't be healthy.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." That quote is often attributed to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels but there is no evidence he ever said it. The description of "The Big Lie" first appeared in Adolf Hitler's 1925 autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf. In 2017, Donald Trump said there were "very fine people" among the neo-Nazis at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. In 2018, Trump told Chief of Staff John Kelly that Hitler "did a lot of good things." In April 2021, Eva Schloss, 91-year-old stepsister of Holocaust survivor and diarist Anne Frank, told The Daily Beast she believes Trump "obviously admired Hitler." Trump has mastered and perfected the art of "The Big Lie." He has convinced his blindly loyal supporters and a majority of Retrumplicans that he won the 2020 Presidential election, there was widespread voter fraud, the election was rigged and the victory was "stolen" from him. Adolf Hitler would have been proud of Donald Trump.

Biden turns Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ against GOP in call for voting rights legislation
The President pointed out that many of the bills in statehouses restricting voting have used as justification Trump’s debunked claims of a “rigged election.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden...b01ba8eed00b52

The phony audit of votes in Maricopa County continues to drag on and on. The County Board of Supervisors has committed $2.9 million to replace the election equipment that officials say can’t be reused after it was in the hands of uncertified auditors. That includes 385 precinct tabulators, nine central counters and related hardware. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs had said in May that the machines subpoenaed by state Senate Republicans are compromised and would be decertified.

The phony audit began April 23 and is being conducted by Cyber Ninjas, a cybersecurity firm led by a Trump supporter who believes the 2020 election was rigged and stolen. Results – which will not change anything – are not expected until late July or August. House Democrats, concerned that the audit is an effort to promote conspiracy theories or “reverse the result of a free and fair election for partisan gain,” have launched an investigation into Cyber Ninjas.

House Democrats probe Arizona election auditor Cyber Ninjas and request documents

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/hous...er-ninjas.html

Two blindly loyal Trump supporters – who believe The Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 Presidential election but it was "stolen" from him – were conspiring to blow up a Democratic Party headquarters. They had weapons, pipe pombs, machine guns.and thousands of rounds of ammunition. As long as Donald Trump, Mike Lindell, Sean Hannity, Rudy Giuliani, Fox News, One America News Network and Congressional Retrumplicans continue to promote The Big Lie, these dangerous, violent, right-wing wackos will proliferate.

2 charged with plotting to blow up Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento

https://www.aol.com/news/2-charged-p...095825487.html

Maricopa County election officials found only 182 cases of "potential voter fraud" out of 3.4 million votes cast. Only four of those "potential" cases resulted in criminal charges. Two involved Democrats and two involved Republicans. Delusional Donald – who continues to promote The Big Lie that he won the 2020 Presidential election but it was "rigged" and "stolen" from him – lashed out at Fox News for reporting this story. In a statement, delusional Donald said, "Fox News and other media outlets incorrectly side with the outdated and terrible Maricopa County Election Board to report no fraud found in the Presidential election. They spew the gross misinformation purposefully put out by the county and the Associated Press." There is no "gross misinformation," Donald. You lost the election. You're a loser! L-O-S-E-R!

County officials in Arizona reported few suspicious ballots, undercutting Trump's claims

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...ump-s-n1274238

The most vain, pompous, self-centered, egotistical, narcissistic, deranged, demented, delusional person who has ever lived believes he could have won the Presidency running against a ticket of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Wow.

Trump said he Thinks he could have beaten George Washington in an election
Trump believes he was a shoo-in for 2020 if not for COVID-19, he told authors of I Alone Can Fix It – contradicting his claims of a rigged election.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donal...b0a771e804ed0f

Delusional Donald will go to his grave insisting he won the 2020 election but it was "rigged" and "stolen" from him – and his delusional, blindly loyal supporters will go to their grave believing him. How sad. And how pathetic.

Trump clings to false election claims at Arizona rally
The former President repeatedly hyped an ongoing partisan audit of poll results in Maricopa County.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...s-rally-500719