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CNN: A List of 21 Trump Election Lies, as Spelled Out in the Indictment (with references) [1]

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Date: 2023-08-03

The Washington Post kept track of all the “false or misleading claims” Donald J. Trump made during his four years as president.

They amount to 30,573. That’s an average of nearly 21 lies per day, for 1461 days (including leap year).

But perhaps the most consequential lies he told while president will be the lies he uttered, repeatedly, after the 2020 election which he lost, in a feeble attempt to illegally retain power.

Those are the ones that will come back to bite him.

For those lies will almost surely lead to convictions on multiple counts in his Jan6 trial.

“I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized.” — Former NYC Deputy Mayor, Alair Townsend

We’ve heard them all. We heard them when perhaps many of us were still sure that Trump would never pay for anything he’d ever done. Never be held accountable. Perhaps there are still some of you out there?

Myself, I will be bookmarking this CNN list of indictable election lies. If only as reference during the trial………

CNN has compiled, sorted and referenced 21 of those lies. The ones referred to in the August 1st indictment returned by a D.C. grand jury.

Here is a sampling of some of the most egregious lies:

1. The lie that fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 election, that Trump “had actually won,” and that the election was “stolen.” (Pages 1 and 40-41 of the indictment) Trump’s claim of a stolen election whose winner was determined by massive fraud was (and continues to be) his overarching lie about the election. The indictment asserts that Trump knew as early as 2020 that his narrative was false – and had been told as such by numerous senior officials in his administration and allies outside the federal government – but persisted in deploying it anyway, including on January 6 itself. [...] 4. The lie that Pence had the power to reject Biden’s electoral votes. (Pages 6, 32-38) Pence had repeatedly and correctly told Trump that he did not have the constitutional or legal right to send electoral votes back to the states as Trump wanted. The indictment notes that Trump nonetheless repeatedly declared that Pence could do so – first in private conversations and White House meetings, then in tweets on January 5 and January 6, then in Trump’s January 6 speech in Washington at a rally before the riot – in which Trump, angry at Pence, allegedly inserted the false claim into his prepared text even after advisors had managed to temporarily get it removed. [...] 11. The lie that voting machines in swing states had switched votes from Trump to Biden. (Page 9) This is a reference to false conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems machines, which Trump kept repeating long after it was thoroughly debunked by his own administration’s election cybersecurity security arm and many others. The indictment says, “The Defendant’s Attorney General, Acting Attorney General, and Acting Deputy Attorney General all had explained to him that this was false, and numerous recounts and audits had confirmed the accuracy of voting machines.” [...] 19. The lie that the election was “corrupt.” (Page 28) The indictment alleges that when acting attorney general Rosen told Trump on the December 27, 2020 call that the Justice Department couldn’t and wouldn’t change the outcome of the election, Trump responded, “Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” (Deputy attorney general Donoghue memorialized the reported Trump remark in his handwritten notes, which CNN reported on in 2021 and which were subsequently published by the House committee that investigated the Capitol riot.)

……...and a list of the dumbest ones:

Dumb, because Pence had publicly stated the opposite (multiple times): 5. The lie that “the Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act.” (Page 36) The indictment alleges that the day before the riot, Trump “approved and caused” his campaign to issue a false statement saying Pence agreed with him about having the power to reject electoral votes – even though Trump knew, from a one-on-one meeting with Pence hours prior, that Pence continued to firmly disagree. [...] Dumb, because there was audio of Raffensperger addressing Trump’s fraud claims: 16. The lie that Raffensperger “was unwilling, or unable,” to address Trump’s claims about a “‘ballots under table’ scam, ballot destruction, out of state ‘voters’, dead voters, and more.” (Page 16) In fact, contrary to this Trump tweet the day after the call, Raffensperger and his staff had addressed and debunked all of these false Trump claims. [...] Dumb, because…..well……..holy sh*t……….. 20. The lie that Trump won every state by hundreds of thousands of votes. (Page 34) The indictment says that, at a January 4, 2021 meeting intended to convince Pence to unlawfully reject Biden’s electoral votes and send them back to swing-state legislatures, Pence took notes describing Trump as saying, “Bottom line-won every state by 100,000s of votes.” This was, obviously, false even if Trump was specifically talking about swing states won by Biden rather than every state in the nation.

And now, back to arraignment-watch, #3

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