One federal judge, William C Griesbach, a George W Bush appointee, acknowledged the “receipt of private funds for public elections may give an appearance of impropriety” – but dismissed the lawsuit. She contends that such private-public partnerships undermine the public’s faith in electoral integrity.įor the record, courts repeatedly denied pre-election efforts to block CTCL funding. Hemingway criticizes the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) for funding election operations in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. As for Zuckerberg, he “should be in jail”. “Big tech got meaner, bigger, stronger, and they were crazed,” Trump says. Trump and Hemingway both go at Silicon Valley with a vengeance, reserving a special place in hell for Mark Zuckerberg. But the party had squandered the advantages of incumbency. His campaign and the GOP had real lawyers on the payroll and a Republican was secretary of state in Georgia. It’s true that Trump might have mounted more of a fight. Hemingway looks in other directions, pointing a finger at Democratic lawyers and voters for supposedly gaming the system amid a pandemic, berating Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell for pursuing the wrong legal strategies, and ignoring comments by Bill Barr, who she interviews but who as attorney general let Trump know he had not “seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome of the election”. “It isn’t policies that cause the biggest problem, it is voters’ reactions to his temperament and behavior.” “We have seen the enemy and it is us,” Fabrizio wrote. According to Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of the Washington Post, in April Trump’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, warned that Covid could cost the boss re-election. That was understood by his campaign as early as spring 2020. And then there is reality: the administration’s performative nonchalance in the face of Covid undermined Trump’s chances of reelection. He has been singing that song since May 2020. “They used Covid to rig an election,” Trump whines, in an interview. Five people died, a police officer among them. The riot was an attempt to overturn the election. “People who call the few-hour riot at the Capitol by unarmed protesters an ‘insurrection’ are bad people who are harming the country,” she tweeted in July. She castigates those who denounce the events of 6 January this year, when Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol. She discounts Charlottesville, where in August 2017 far-right marchers earned kind words from the president, as a “hoax”. Now, like so many Republicans, she’s a fan. In 2015, Hemingway branded Trump a “ demagogue with no real solutions”. “If you believe things went terribly wrong in the 2020 election, well, you’re not crazy, and you’re not alone,” she writes. Into the fray leaps Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway with Rigged, 488 pages on “How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections”.
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