morning. it is sunday october the 9th. i am velshi. it is 21 months ago, just hours after the halls of the capitol were cleared of the insurrectionists tomb of the building in an attempt to prevent joe biden from becoming the presidents. 147 republican members of congress, remember that number, voted against certifying his victory. now, as we head into the final weeks of the 2022 midterms, it appears likely that the number of election deniers and congress is going to increase on november 8th. according to a new washington post analysis, the majority of the republican parties candidates for congress, and top state executive positions this year, are election deniers who have spread donald trump s big lie about baseless, unfounded, in debunked claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. by the washington post county, take a look at this, there are 299 republican candidates vying to be representatives or attorney general. that s all the squares. to 99. they ve denied the in
leading up to the fbi raid of trump s florida resident that turned up a trove of classified documents. even if you are, and most bizarre right, now enclosed trusted to julia dealings from our twice impeached ex president, this one is actually a doozy. let s get up to speed on all we have learned about the mar-a-lago document investigation just this week. number one, according to reporting from the washington post stating multiple sources familiar with the matter, earlier this year, trump asked his lawyer, alex cannon detail the national archives that trump had already returned all of the documents that they national archives for seeking. canada refused to convey the message for trump, because he was not sure if it was true. spoiler alert. it was not true! trump still had thousands of documents, including some highly classified ones according to publicly released inventories, from the justice department. we should note nbc news has not independently verified the post verifying on that s