Saturday, July 15, 2023

Long arm of the law


Good.  That shit needs to be seriously and severely curtailed.
Federal prosecutors have interviewed the secretaries of state for both Pennsylvania and New Mexico in recent months.

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[Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al] Schmidt, a Republican, was asked about issues he encountered while serving as Philadelphia City Commissioner, including how misinformation about widespread voter fraud impacted him and other election officials at the time.

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New Mexico’s top election official, Maggie Toulouse Oliver, also met with federal prosecutors in recent months “to discuss matters related to the 2020 election.”

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Smith’s team has sent subpoenas to local and state officials in all seven of the key states – Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – that were targeted by Trump and his allies and where Trump’s campaign convened the false electors as part of the effort to subvert the Electoral College.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also spoke to federal prosecutors as part of the criminal probe.

Benson said in an interview on CNN that prosecutors were focused, in part, on the impact of misinformation on election workers and the “threats that emerged from that from various sources.”

Other officials from those states also have been interviewed by federal investigators as part of the special counsel probe, including Rusty Bowers, a former top GOP official in Arizona.

Smith’s sprawling investigations has focused on multiple alleged election-stealing efforts.

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Smith and his team have zeroed in on a chaotic Oval Office meeting during the final days of Trump’s presidency, during which the former president considered some of the most desperate and far-fetched proposals to keep him in power over objections from his White House counsel.

  CNN
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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