I just want to remind everyone that back in 2011 Donald Trump and Michael Cohen set up a Russian cryptocurrency scam site https://t.co/H4spzP5aO8 to see if there was any money in running for President. But wait...there's more.

Trump and Cohen were sued for election fraud.

Sorry folks I can't make this up. https://t.co/jNJl6LXZKX
Back in 2011 Donald Trump and Michael Cohen set up a website: https://t.co/H4spzP5aO8 to see if there was any money in running for President. The site was owne by a Russian cyrptocurrency dude. Again you can't make this up. https://t.co/uwtZfIWnHO
the bleached bones of this failed effort still exist. Fake Donald seems awfully polite and respectiful. https://t.co/5d2pm5kYf7
Trump was still a bullshit artist pretending that a grassroots campaign was urging him to run when it was his lawyer.https://t.co/WEHrTfQnCg
Trump's other lawyer Don McGahn responds...by attacking the election committee....of course. https://t.co/at2pe3pjiT
"The organization was apparently laundering Trump corporate cash into campaign spending." https://t.co/Cw3XMa47CI
"(Pamela) Jensen, her family, and Stone teamed up on a number of equally dubious efforts in 2016, including a 527 called Stop the Steal, which McGahn provided legal protection for in both its early (convention focused) and its late (Democratic voter suppression) incarnations."
and.......boom.... Erik Prince. "Prince said he was raising money for a 501(c)(4) social-welfare nonprofit named the Committee for American Sovereignty Education Fund. The treasurer listed on the group’s tax filings works for Jensen and Associates" https://t.co/Zhts4DP3aN
American Sovereignty Education Fund apparantly paid for Ben Carson's campaign. A brain surgeon who was considered dense on foreign policy by the late CIA spook Dewey Clarridge.
https://t.co/PkILIDzBSb
So let's ask this ugly question. Why did Erik Prince/Roger Stone back Ben Carson? A man who flamed out early and hard. Were they harvesting black voter data in Michigan? #RunBenRun https://t.co/7CTjib0T8A
"Both CASEF’s original and amended tax filings disclose payments to a vendor, Citroen Associates, whose owner has been subpoenaed by Mueller. $158,500 in payments for... Jensen & Associates, that were not disclosed on the original filing." https://t.co/93CcIYyCPT

More from Politics

"3 million people are estimated not to have official photo ID, with ethnic minorities more at risk". They will "have to contact their council to confirm their ID if they want to vote"

This is shameful legislation, that does nothing to tackle the problems with UK elections.THREAD


There is no evidence in-person voter fraud is a problem, and it wd be near-impossible to organise on an effective scale. Campaign finance violations, digital disinformation & manipulation of postal voting are bigger issues, but these are crimes of the powerful, not the powerless.

In a democracy, anything that makes it harder to vote - in particular, anything that disadvantages one group of voters - should face an extremely high bar. Compulsory voter ID takes a hammer to 3 million legitimate voters (disproportionately poor & BAME) to crack an imaginary nut

If the government is concerned about the purity of elections, it should reflect on its own conduct. In 2019 it circulated doctored news footage of an opponent, disguised its twitter feed as a fake fact-checking site, and ran adverts so dishonest that even Facebook took them down.

Britain's electoral law largely predates the internet. There is little serious regulation of online campaigning or the cash that pays for it. That allows unscrupulous campaigners to ignore much of the legal framework erected since the C19th to guard against electoral misconduct.

You May Also Like