Democrats ORWELLIAN response to Trump's interview with Elon Musk shows they're TERRIFIED



Elon Musk's live interview with former President Donald Trump caused leftists around the world to panic.

Not only did media reports ignore Musk’s claim of a DDoS attack, but they instead mocked X over the “technical problems” at the beginning of the interview.

A European Union official then threatened X with more lawsuits if he didn’t censor Trump, and U.S. journalists as well as the White House suggested that Musk should face consequences for spreading “misinformation.”

“As a very large online platform, you have the legal obligation to ensure X’s compliance with EU laws, and in particular the Digital Services Act in the EU,” the official wrote in a letter to Musk.

These critics of Musk’s interview are either blissfully unaware that the tech billionaire invited Kamala Harris to do a similar interview — or they simply don’t care. Harris declined the opportunity.

Glenn Beck is horrified, calling the response “V for Vendetta, or 1984 kind of stuff.”

“They’re saying that he should not be running this interview because it’s too risky. Now, let me ask you something, America, when has speech become too risky? What was it Donald Trump said yesterday that was so scary,” Glenn says.

“These people are trying to shut down your access to any other point of view. You’ll notice they don’t say anything when Democrats say elections are stolen and the Republicans are going to steal this one now,” he continues.

While Trump had alluded to election fraud, he was discussing it in the context of using paper ballots, which help greatly to prevent election fraud.

“This is absolutely unrecognizable to me in the West. It is making Saudi Arabia look like a kind of open place,” Glenn adds.


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Mississippi Democrat says there was voter fraud in Democratic primary orchestrated by Democratic county chairperson: 'High-tech election heist'



A Mississippi Democrat politician says there was voter fraud in a recent Democratic primary, and the alleged election corruption was orchestrated by a Democratic county chairperson.

Hinds County District 2 Supervisor David Archie is contesting the results of the recent election results against challenger Anthony Smith. Archie is claiming that there was voter fraud committed in the Democratic primary election held on Aug. 8.

He alleges that his fellow Democrats committed "high-tech election heist with corruption as well as fraud."

WAPT reported, "He lost to Anthony Smith, who, according to results from Hinds County election officials, won by 63% of the vote."

After losing the election, Archie said he requested a ballot box review of the election results. He claimed that the Hinds County Democratic Party only provided him with the paper ballots, but did not supply him with secondary confirmation measures, such as a voter signature book, digital images of the ballots, or the thumb drives from the voting machines.

Archie claimed the election fraud was orchestrated by Jacqueline Amos – chairperson of the Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee.

Archie alleges that Amos disparaged him in a text message between her and an unnamed person.

The unidentified person reportedly texted Amos, "Hey, don't let them cheat Debroha Dixon out of her election. She won fair and square."

Archie alleges Amos answered, "She won. But I'm going to f*** David Archie on the site!!!"

"The bottom line is that we have the text, she’s the chairperson, she’s the one that’s responsible," Archie said at a press conference. "She must be impartial to any and all elections here in Hinds County and this does not speak that she was being impartial to an election."

Archie proclaimed, "We have videotape of Jacque Amos going into boxes, bringing in thumb drives, bringing in ballots to be inserted into machines. We have pictures of Jacque Amos participating in what we think that is fraud as well as corruption."

Taylor Pedigo, a District 2 resident, said at the press conference, "I was watching the election numbers come in and immediately I knew that something funny was going on, that this man that I had never heard of, that I had never seen a yard sign of... came out the gate with a huge lead. This leads me to believe that this needs further investigation."

Cynthia Walker, a Yazoo City resident who participated in the ballot recount, said at the press conference, "I have reason to believe that we don’t know if you got 1,800 voters. All we know is you got 1,800 paper ballots. Had she left me some books, and I came back to 1,800, had she left me some media sticks, and I came back to 1800, had she left me a tally sheet, I came back to 1,800. Had they left us a receiving and a receipt in return form, we could come back to some serial numbers. Had they filled out the ballot accounting form, I could go back to 1,800. I can’t go anywhere but count those paper ballots. That does not tell us anything."

Archie was defeated by Smith by nearly 1,900 votes in the Democratic primary.

Amos responded to the voter fraud allegation in an email statement that read:

The Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee conducted the August 8th Democratic Primary in keeping with applicable state law. The Executive Committee has canvassed the returns and certified the results of the August 8th primary. Those results speak for themselves, as does relevant state law for anyone seeking to contest the certification of the votes duly cast on August 8th. We understand that one candidate who lost, namely David Archie, has decided to challenge the results of the August 8, 2023, primary. He has the right to challenge the results. We stand ready for the challenge and will cooperate however necessary.

Archie demanded that Amos resign from her position as chairperson of the Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee. He threatened to file criminal charges if she did not step down for alleged meddling with election integrity.

Archie is a member of the NAACP, an ACLU supporter, and a civil rights activist.

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Texas sheriff won't investigate voter fraud allegations against Democrat candidate leveled in police bodycam video



A Texas sheriff won't investigate voter fraud allegations against a Democrat candidate for county judge that were leveled during a bodycam conversation between a Fort Worth police officer and a homeless man who had been arrested for voter fraud.

What are the details?

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office said because Democrat candidate Deborah Peoples is at the center of the allegations, and Sheriff Bill Waybourn already endorsed her Republican opponent Tim O’Hare — as well as other GOP candidates — Waybourn said it would be “inappropriate” for the sheriff’s office to investigate the matter, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported, citing a Monday evening press release.

Instead the sheriff’s office will pass the information to the state attorney general’s office, the Star-Telegram said, adding that representatives for Waybourn didn’t immediately respond to the paper's request for comment.

Conservative news website Gateway Pundit said it obtained the bodycam video dated Jan. 3, 2020 through open records requests. The outlet then included the video as part of a story earlier this month claiming Peoples engaged in ballot harvesting. In the video, the homeless man — Charles Jackson — tells the officer that Peoples paid him to help with that task, the Star-Telegram reported.

Here's a transcript of part of the conversation from the bodycam video in question:

JACKSON: "Each time I get someone to sign they gave me $200."
OFFICER: "To sign the absentee ballot?"
JACKSON: "Yeah, but that wasn't easy though ... those people were 65 and older you know ..."
OFFICER: "How many people you get to sign?"
JACKSON: "One day I got like $1,200 ... in like four hours ..."
OFFICER: "Did you fill out anything, or you have them fill it out?"
JACKSON: "No ... I filled it out while I was talking to them, and then ... let them sign it."
OFFICER: "So you voted everyone for them?"
JACKSON: "Yeah, yeah pretty much. You know, once you vote one just vote all Democrats ... and they wasn't intending to do that. Kind of leading 'em like ..."
OFFICER: "... Were you telling 'em you were doing that?"
JACKSON: "No, I was told to tell them what I told them."
OFFICER: "What would you tell them ... I mean, how would you get them to sign?"

Jackson then explains to the officer that he was told to tell his targets he was checking to see if their information in the system was correct, according to the video.

JACKSON: They said, 'Yeah,' and I said, 'Well, sign if it's correct.' Once it's signed, they voted ..."
OFFICER: “Dang. So was that paper ballot or on the computer?”
JACKSON: “Both ... I had a tablet, and I had paper as well.”

Jackson then tells the officer he earned between $900 and $1,200 a week for about six months through his activities, according to the video.

Now what?

The Tarrant County GOP addressed the controversy Sept. 16:

\u201cTarrant County Republican Chairman @rbarnesGOP statement regarding voter fraud and the connection to Deborah Peoples.\n\n#Tarrant #TarrantCounty #TarrantGOP #GOP #VoteRepublican\u201d
— Tarrant County Republican Party (@Tarrant County Republican Party) 1663331430

"In the video the individual explained to a police officer that Ms. Peoples directed him to target the elderly, steal their votes, and harvest those votes for specific candidates in the 2016 election," the statement from the Tarrant County GOP reads.

How did Peoples, other Democrats respond?

Peoples said last week Republicans were “disrespecting voters by leaning on false information from an outlet famous for spreading lies to serve an extreme agenda," the Star-Telegram reported.

Tarrant County Democratic chair Allison Campolo said "voters are ready for candidates who run professional campaigns and don’t resort to these gossip tactics while spreading wild, unsupported claims. We are glad to see the Sheriff’s office agrees. ..." the paper noted.

Campolo added to the Star-Telegram that Democrats welcome investigations into the “patently false” claims.

“We know what the sheriff’s investigation will find, which is that no fraud occurred, and Tarrant Republicans used an extremely right-wing source of misinformation to spread this lie,” Campolo noted, according to the paper. “When the sheriff’s office is prepared to formally expose this lie for what it is, we are ready to share their findings.”

Representatives from the attorney general’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, the Star-Telegram said, adding that Peoples didn’t immediately respond to a phone call and text for comment.

Arizona Republicans to seek more data and materials from Maricopa County as officials slam uncertified auditors



Arizona State Senate Republicans will seek additional material and data from Maricopa County as part of a now three-month audit of the 2020 election results, Senate President Karen Fann (R-Prescott) said Thursday.

During a hearing at the state Capitol, witnesses from Cyber Ninjas, the uncertified Florida-based cybersecurity firm contracted by Fann to conduct the outside audit, told her and Sen. Warren Petersen (R-Gilbert) they have finished auditing the 2.1 million ballots cast in the November election but need wireless routers and voting machine tokens from the county, or else their review will be "incomplete." Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan also recommended that canvassers go door to door to question some registered voters on whether they actually voted by mail, the Arizona Republic reported.

"Based on the data we're seeing, I highly recommend we do the canvassing because it's the one way to know for sure whether the data we're seeing are real problems," Logan said.

Previously, the state Senate has held off on dispatching canvassers after the U.S. Department of Justice warned that such an effort might be directed primarily at minority communities and that it could be a form of voter intimidation and violate federal civil rights laws.

If Maricopa County officials refuse to comply with the requests for additional materials, it is likely the Senate will take them to court, which could delay the publication of a final report on the audit for weeks or months. Senate Republicans already sued once for access to ballots and tabulation machines from the county and were only able to begin the audit after a judge ruled in their favor in February. Republicans argued the delay brought on by more litigation might be necessary to deliver an accurate report.

"We need to get the additional information because how do you do a final report if you don't have all the information?" Fann said.

County officials contend that they have already turned over everything a qualified auditor would need to complete an election audit and refuse to deliver further materials to auditors who are not certified by the Elections Assistance Commission.

Allegations of voting irregularities

Witness testimony on the findings from the audit raised several concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election. Logan testified alongside Ben Cotton, the founder of CyFir, a cybersecurity company that is subcontracting for the audit.

Logan claimed that nearly 4,000 Maricopa County voters who cast ballots in the presidential election registered to vote after a court-ordered deadline of Oct. 15.

"Based on the registration information that we found in the voting rolls, we have 3,981 individuals who show having voted in this election [who] were registered after Oct. 15," he said.

According to Logan, there were 11,326 individuals who did not appear on the version of the voter rolls made the day after the Nov. 6 election but did appear on voter rolls prepared on Dec. 7.

He also testified that 18,000 voters who cast ballots in November were removed from voter rolls after the election.

The auditor further alleged that 74,243 early votes were received, but "there is no clear record of them being sent." Logan emphasized that the discrepancy could be a "clerical issue" but added there is no real way to know without contacting voters directly.

"I think when we've got 74,000 it merits knocking on a door and validating some of this information," said Logan.

Officials from Maricopa County responded to several of these claims in real time on social media. The county pointed out that the 74,000 early ballots are explained by the fact that you can vote early by mail or in person at voting centers. Anyone who votes in person receives a ballot at the center, so "it's not unusual that we would have more early votes than mail-in ballots sent."

The people who vote in-person use ballots provided at a Vote Center. This is not a new practice, so it's not unusu… https://t.co/RhGiEf0cRC

— Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) 1626396261.0

Logan also raised concerns over the way ballots were printed, explaining that because voters were provided with felt-tipped markers on Election Day, there was a possibility that the ink bled through to the opposite side of the ballot, which could alter how the vote was counted. County officials have insisted that this "bleed-through" effect is of no concern because the ballots are printed in such a way that the "bubbles" were aligned. If it did happen, poll workers would easily recognize it and correct the ballot, they said.

This accuracy is verified through logic and accuracy tests, hand counts performed by the political parties, and pos… https://t.co/WfUrHYESsm

— Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) 1626396262.0

But Logan provided images that he says show that the ballots on Election Day were misaligned and that stray marks could have resulted in a ballot cast for the wrong candidate or an invalidated ballot because it appeared someone cast their vote twice. According to the Arizona Daily Star, as many as 168,000 ballots were printed and cast at voting centers on Election Day.

Concerns over security

Cotton testified that the voting machines used in Maricopa County had not received a security patch since 2019, when they were certified. He said it was "critically important" that the county turn over its routers for examination to determine what security risks were present on Election Day.

He noted that days before the election, the FBI raided a home in Fountain Hills as part of its investigation into a cyber attack on the county's voter registration system. The county had identified the attack and reported it to the authorities, but Cotton said the incident shows that at least one part of the county's election system had been "hacked."

Responding, county officials said Thursday that the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission prohibits uncertified individuals such as Cyber Ninjas and CyFir from handling certified election equipment, which is why they have refused to turn over the requested materials. The county added in a tweet that "we cannot update our systems through security patches. That is why we maintained an air gapped system. Installing security patches would be changing the system that was certified."

Finally, baseless allegations from Ben Cotton (who is not EAC certified) are ridiculous coming from the guy who fal… https://t.co/2xeUuivxLG

— Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) 1626372862.0

County officials have also previously said that turning over the information on its routers could compromise law enforcement data. If Fann presses for those materials, Maricopa County is almost sure to fight the request in court.

Republican Infighting

The controversy over Maricopa County's election results has pitted state Republican lawmakers against locally elected GOP officials in what was once a GOP stronghold.

President Joe Biden shocked Republicans by winning Maricopa County by more than 45,000 votes, narrowly defeating Donald Trump in the state of Arizona by about 10,000 votes total. Trump's insistence that the election was stolen despite multiple machine audits that verified the results has frustrated Maricopa County officials, who have defended the integrity of their election.

In a statement, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers blasted the Senate audit hearing and criticized Senate Republicans for contracting auditors who were not certified by the EAC.

"It's clear the people hired by Arizona Senate leadership to supposedly bring integrity to our elections are instead just bringing incompetence," Sellers said.

He accused Logan and Cotton of asking "open-ended questions, portraying as suspicious what is actually normal and well known to people who work in elections."

"In some cases, they dropped bombshell numbers that are simply not accurate," he added.

"What we heard today represents an alternate reality that has veered out of control since the November General Election. Senate leadership should be ashamed they broadcast the half-baked theories of the 'Deep Rig' crowd to the world today," he continued.

"To Senate leaders I say, stop accusing us of not cooperating when we have given you everything qualified auditors would need to do this job. Finish your audit, release the report, and be prepared to defend it in Court."

Speaking at the hearing, Fann defended the actions of Senate Republicans from critics who say their efforts are a waste of time and are feeding conspiracy theories that the election was stolen.

"This is not about Trump. This is not about overturning the election. This has never been about anything other than election integrity," Fann insisted.

Senator Karen Fann: “This is not about Trump. This is not about overturning the election. This has never been about… https://t.co/06i188vPDW

— Agent Brandoe The PipeHitter (@BYounger13) 1626370710.0

She cited a poll that found 45% of the people in Arizona thought there were serious problems with the election and reminded critics that as elected officials, lawmakers have a duty to respond to those concerns.

"Whether that is true or not, whether they are rumors and unfounded accusations or legitimate problems, for whatever reason, as a Senate body, we felt that it was our obligation and our duty to answer," said Fann.

"Our voters are constituents. Answer those questions and either confirm what they were afraid of or thought or heard, or that we prove that those things were not true so that they could go back to the polls and they could vote with confidence knowing that their ballot is sacred."

Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood — who helped lead the accusations of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election — is under investigation for voter fraud



Attorney Lin Wood is under investigation by Georgia officials for potential voter fraud, according to a Tuesday night report from NBC News.

Wood was one of former President Donald Trump's biggest advocates in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election based on accusations of massive voter fraud.

The embattled attorney recently said that he has been living in South Carolina for the last several months.

What are the details?

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office confirmed the investigation in a statement to the network.

"The question is whether [Wood] was a legal resident when he voted in November in light of an email he sent to [WSB-TV reporter] Justin Gray saying he has been domiciled in South Carolina for several months," the statement explained. "The investigation is ongoing."

The secretary of state's office added that "if a person removes to another state with the intention of making it such person's residence, such person shall be considered to have lost such person's residence in this state" — which would have made Wood ineligible to vote in Georgia if he were living in South Carolina during early voting.

On Tuesday night, Wood responded to the news and in a statement of his own announced, "I was domiciled in Atlanta in October of 2020 and was a resident of Georgia at that time. I have been a resident of Georgia since 1955."

"I own properties in Georgia and South Carolina," Wood's statement added. "I changed my resident to South Carolina on February 1, 2021."

What else?

On Wednesday, NPR reported that Wood took to the social media site Telegram on Monday, revealing that he was leaving Georgia and changing his permanent residency to South Carolina after insisting Georgia "falsely accused me and shunned me."

"After news of the investigation broke, Wood wrote that he only became a South Carolina resident as of Feb. 1 and called Raffensperger a 'loser' who 'is going to jail,'" NPR's Stephen Fowler reported.

"Now, his posts on Telegram are under scrutiny as officials seek to determine if one of the loudest voices alleging election fraud committed a crime himself," Fowler added. "Georgia state code 21-2-217 (a) (5) says that if a person moves to another state 'with the intention of remaining there an indefinite time and making such state the person's place of residence' then they are no longer considered eligible to vote in Georgia."

State investigators will now determine if Wood lived in South Carolina or in Georgia when he voted early in person for the November presidential election

Texas woman arrested on election fraud charges after getting caught on Project Veritas video, officials say



A Texas woman has been arrested on felony charges of election fraud, illegal voting, unlawfully assisting people voting by mail, and unlawfully possessing an official ballot, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday.

And Paxton said the suspect got caught on a Project Veritas video in the midst of "shocking and blatantly illegal action."

"Many continue to claim that there's no such thing as election fraud," the attorney general added. "We've always known that such a claim is false and misleading, and today we have additional hard evidence."

What are the details?

Paxton's office said Rachel Rodriguez was exposed in a Project Veritas video last fall while engaging in vote harvesting leading up to the 2020 election, adding that his office's Election Fraud Division reviewed dozens of hours of unedited, raw footage, which led to her arrest.

At one point, Rodriguez was caught acknowledging that her actions were illegal and that she could go to jail for it, Paxton's office said.

If convicted, Rodriguez could face up to 20 years in prison, his office added.

KSAT-TV reported that while the release from Paxton's office spelled Rodriguez's first name "Rachel," public records repeatedly spell it "Raquel."

The station added that in the Project Veritas video Rodriguez appears to show an older woman how to change her vote on a mail-in ballot, and she also described various types of small gifts she gets for voters she comes into contact with.

Police on Wednesday told KSAT that Rodriguez was arrested on San Antonio's east side and that the attorney general's office asked for assistance transporting her. Rodriguez was still in the process of being taken to jail just before noon Wednesday, the station added. Her arrest occurred Wednesday morning, the AG's office told KSAT.

Anything else?

"This is a victory for election integrity and a strong signal that anyone who attempts to defraud the people of Texas, deprive them of their vote, or undermine the integrity of elections will be brought to justice," Paxton added.

His office also said that individuals involved in or with knowledge of "this organized vote harvesting scheme are encouraged to come forward and cooperate with the Office of the Attorney General."

Dominion accuses Sidney Powell of defamation, sues for $1.3 billion



Attorney Sidney Powell, who filed multiple unsuccessful lawsuits alleging a widespread conspiracy of voter fraud in the 2020 election, was sued for defamation on Friday by Dominion Voting Systems.

Dominion, a manufacturer of electronic voting machines, was central to claims Powell and others made about votes being switched from President Trump to President-elect Joe Biden and foreign interference in the election. The lawsuit seeks $1.3 billion from Powell, who claimed that Dominion machines used software manufactured in Venezuela to help Hugo Chavez fraudulently win elections, among other unproven accusations. Dominion is an American company based in Denver and Toronto and has no ownership ties to the government of Venezuela.

"Powell's wild accusations are demonstrably false," the company said in its complaint. "Acting in concert with allies and media outlets that were determined to promote a false preconceived narrative about the 2020 election, Powell launched a viral disinformation campaign about Dominion that reached millions of people and caused enormous harm to Dominion."

Dominion's defamation lawsuit against Sidney Powell is thorough.https://t.co/NsW05nJ0wQ
— Jerry Dunleavy (@Jerry Dunleavy)1610116519.0

"As a result of the defamatory falsehoods peddled by Powell ... Dominion's founder, Dominion's employees, Georgia's governor, and Georgia's secretary of state have been harassed and have received death threats, and Dominion has suffered enormous harm," Dominion's lawsuit states.

Last month, Dominion and Smartmatic, another voting machine company named in conspiratorial claims about the 2020 election, each sent letters to Fox News, One America News Network, Epoch Times, and other media outlets and personalities who repeated Powell's claims threatening imminent legal action. In response, Fox and other outlets aired segments with corrections debunking some false claims about the election. Still, more lawsuits from Dominion are likely.

Powell was also issued formal notice by Dominion, and the company requested that she retract her claims, which the lawsuit recounts.

"After Dominion sent Powell a letter putting her on formal notice of the facts and the death threats and asking her to retract her false claims, Powell doubled down, tweeting to her 1.2 million Twitter followers that she heard that '#Dominion' had written to her and that, although she had not even seen Dominion's letter yet, she was 'retracting nothing' because '[w]e have #evidence' and 'They are #fraud masters!'" it states.

"Dominion brings this action to set the record straight, to vindicate the company's rights under civil law, to recover compensatory and punitive damages, to seek a narrowly tailored injunction, and to stand up for itself and its employees," the lawsuit declares.

"It's very easy to say something on Twitter without evidence," Dominion chief executive officer John Poulos told reporters Friday. "It is another thing to have to come forward in a court of law and identify your basis for making these statements."

Trump blasts 'weak' Republicans, advances his case for rejecting Electoral College certification



President Donald Trump addressed supporters at a rally protesting the certification of the Electoral College results in Washington, D.C., Wednesday after Republicans lost the U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia.

The president told his supporters that the election was rigged, and that Republicans who do not support his claims of voter fraud or who refuse to object to certifying the results are "weak." Several times Trump put pressure on Vice President Mike Pence to take action to reject the Electoral College votes from several states, sending them back to the state legislatures — a power which constitutional experts and even the vice president himself say he does not have.

Several thousand protesters gathered near the White House to hear the president speak as he told them, "We will not let them silence your voices," referring to Democrats and the media.

"We have hundreds of thousands of people here and I just want them to be recognized by the fake news media," Trump said. "These people are not going to take it any longer."

The president's speech was the main event of the "Save America" rally to protest the certification of the Electoral College results by Congress. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives met in a joint session Wednesday presided by Pence to read the votes sent by several states and certify them. Several Republican lawmakers had in recent days declared their intentions to object to the results from some states where Trump's campaign disputes the results and has made allegations of voter fraud.

"They rigged the election, they rigged it like they never rigged an election before. And by the way, last night they didn't do a bad job either," Trump told the large gathering.

His speech reviewed the various allegations of election impropriety the president's campaign and state Republicans have made over the months since the Nov. 3 election. Trump accused the Pennsylvania government of violating its own state election laws by ignoring signature verification requirements for mail-in ballots. He criticized "illegal, unmanned, unsecured drop boxes" for mail-in and absentee ballots in Wisconsin. Trump also repeated various claims of dead voters sending in ballots by mail, large votes being "dropped" late at night or in the early hours of the morning, and other assertions made in affidavits submitted in the various lawsuits the Trump campaign pursued to overturn the results of the election.

Nearly all of the court cases filed on behalf of the Trump campaign making these assertions of illegal voting activity were either dismissed by courts for lack of standing or found to not have enough evidence to support their claims.

Despite the failure of his various legal challenges, the president continues to refuse to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden.

"We will never give up, we will never concede," Trump declared at the rally. "You don't concede when there's theft involved."

He again urged Vice President Pence to take action to decertify the official results of the Electoral College, insisting that, "if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election."

"States want to revote. The states got defrauded. They were given false information. They voted on it. Now they want to recertify, they want it back. All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president and you are the happiest people," Trump told his audience.

While the president spoke, Vice President Pence released a statement announcing that he would not act as directed by Trump and refuse to certify the results.

"As a student of history who loves the Constitution and reveres its Framers, I do not believe that the Founders of our country intended to invest the Vice President with unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted during the Joint Session of Congress," Pence said.

https://t.co/8WJbv9A8Lx
— Mike Pence (@Mike Pence)1609956145.0

While several GOP lawmakers followed through with their promise to object to the electoral votes from Arizona and other states, the effort was opposed by Republican leadership in the Senate and many Republican senators.

Trump accused those who would not support the effort of being "weak."

"Weak Republicans, and that's what they are. There are so many weak Republicans," Trump charged. "Many of the Republicans, I helped them get in, I helped them get elected. I helped [Mitch McConnell] get elected. I could name 24 of them, let's say, I won't bore you with it.

"The weak Republicans, they're pathetic Republicans," he continued. "The weak Republicans, and that's it, I really believe it. I think I'm going to use the term. The weak Republicans ... they've turned a blind eye even as Democrats enact policies that chipped away our jobs, weakened our military, threw open our borders, and put America last."

He vowed to challenge incumbent Republicans who would not support his efforts to overturn the election in future primaries.

"If they don't fight we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don't fight. We primary them, we're going to let you know who they are," Trump said.

Additionally, Trump criticized the Supreme Court, saying "they love to rule against me," and berated the Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp as the "dumbest" governor in America.

"The Republicans have to get tougher, you're not going to have a Republican Party if you don't get tougher. They want to play so straight," Trump said, before mimicking Republicans who tell him the Constitution does not permit the vice president or Congress to send Electoral College results back to the states.

"You can't vote on fraud. And fraud breaks up everything, doesn't it? When you catch somebody in a fraud, you're allowed to go by very different rules. So I hope Mike has the courage to do what he has to do. And I hope he doesn't listen to the RINOs and the stupid people that he's listening to."

Project Veritas claims to expose illegal voter registration scheme in Georgia, but does not appear to show illegal activity



A new hidden camera video released by Project Veritas purports to expose illegal voter registration of homeless people in Georgia, but in fact highlights a practice that may be legal.

In the video, Georgia Central Outreach and Advocacy Center executive director Kimberly Parker admits to helping multiple homeless people register to vote using the same address. Project Veritas accused the Center of "illegally registering thousands of homeless to vote" at an address they do not reside at in Atlanta.

“We’ve done that for years!” Executive Director Kimberly Parker says... while admitting her organization has been i… https://t.co/sne9QWWfc3
— Project Veritas (@Project Veritas)1609823318.0

Parker explains, "So, the majority of the people we serve don't have an address, so we allow them to use our address if they register to vote and to get Georgia State ID."

The video notes that Georgia state law requires a person to vote where they live, and that "permitting someone to use a false statement on voter registration is illegal ... and punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment."

However, Georgia election law permits homeless people to register to vote using the address of somewhere they routinely stay, such as at a shelter or a church. If they do not stay at a location with an address, they may denote a park name or the closest intersection to where they sleep as their residence. They must also provide a mailing address where they can receive mail and may use the address of a shelter, church, charity, relative, or friend to do so.

"Because you have to have proof of residence and so although we're not a shelter, we do allow them to use 201 Washington Street," Parker continues. "So, I can't even begin to tell you how many people have that address on their ID. And we've never run into any problem with that until this election."

She adds that "one of our board members got wind that they thought we're doing things not on the up and up, because so many people have the address, but we've not heard any repercussion from it since."

The Central Outreach and Advocacy Center is an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization headquartered in the lower level of Central Presbyterian Church. The agency provides support services to Atlanta's homeless people, including helping them acquire government documents like ID cards or birth certificates, setting up medical appointments, and providing job and skills training to help them find work.

Also featured in the video is Adam Seeley, who is the director of social services for Emmaus House, another nonprofit organization that serves the Atlanta community, and also serves as a board member at the Central Night Shelter. Seeley states that his organization does not know how many people have used their address to register to vote.

"You know, we've always kind have been unsure at how many people were having us established as a mailing address in terms of a larger scope," Seeley said.

"One day I walked into Emmaus House to pick up the mail, and Beverly was like, one of our ladies, she's where the mail comes into our office, and she's like, 'you gotta get this stuff outta here.' And I'm like, 'what are you talking about?'

"And it was probably a couple thousand people that had our address registered as their mailing address for their voter registration," he continued. "And I was like, oh my god, so I'm looking through it and I'm like, well this guys is dead."

TheBlaze contacted Central Outreach and Advocacy Center and Emmaus House with requests for comment. Project Veritas also did immediately return a request for comment.

Georgia's Republican lieutenant governor criticizes Trump phone call as 'inappropriate,' unhelpful, and 'based on misinformation'



The Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia said Monday that President Donald Trump's phone call with Secretary of State Brad Ratffensperger, in which the president appeared to pressure the secretary to "find" enough votes to overturn Joe Biden's electoral victory, was "inappropriate" and that he was "disappointed" at the president's conduct.

"I am 100% certified to tell you that it was inappropriate. And it certainly did not help the situation," Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said on CNN's "New Day." "It was based on misinformation, it was based on, you know, all types of theories that have been debunked and disproved over the course of the last 10 weeks."

The Washington Post on Sunday published a four-minute excerpt of what was reportedly an hour-long phone conversation between the president and Georgia's top election official. In the transcript of the call, partially published by Newsmax, Trump made several claims of voter fraud and other election irregularities, said there were approximately "300,000 fake ballots," and put pressure on Ratffensperger to "give me a break" and find enough fraudulent ballots, approximately 12,000, to change the results of the election. In response, Raffensperger and his attorney, Ryan Germany, disputed the president's claims, arguing that the data the president cited is incorrect and that the vote numbers certified by the state of Georgia are accurate, not fraudulent.

The report of the phone call immediately sparked controversy, with several former top U.S. officials suggesting that Trump had potentially committed a crime while the president's supporters demanded that the full audio of the phone call be released to put Trump's words in context.

Duncan, who supported Trump's campaign for re-election, also said he was "disappointed" at the president's questions for Ratffensperger and the tone the president used. He worries that the controversy will distract from the runoff Senate elections in Georgia on Tuesday, harming Republican chances for victory.

"I've continued to encourage everybody, including the president, to stay focused on tomorrow," Duncan said. "That phone call did absolutely nothing to help drive turnout for Republicans here in Georgia for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. I was disappointed and quite honestly I can't imagine anybody on his staff encouraging that call or not giving him the advice to hang up and move on to the next subject."

Sens. Loeffler and Perdue each face tough re-election challenges from Democratic candidates who feel the wind at their backs as Republican enthusiasm to vote is tamped down by a sense that GOP officials are not doing enough to support and provide evidence for Trump's claims of voter fraud. The Trump campaign and others filed more than 50 lawsuits in the wake of the presidential election, nearly all of which were either dismissed by the courts or dropped because of a lack of evidence to support claims of election misconduct.