this week as voters in five states cast their primary ballots for upcoming midterms, the message from republican voters was really loud and clear. election denialism is alive and well. and north carolina, republicans chose ted but as their candidate for the senate. last year, but voted against certifying the 2020 election results. as recently as this week, he refused to say that president biden is the legitimate president of the united states. for the record, in case there is anyone out there that that s it, joe biden is the legitimate president of united states. in pennsylvania, far-right state senator, doug maggiano, won the republican nomination for governor in a landslide. of course, mastriano attended the rally before the capitol riot ungenerous six. he was actually subpoenaed by the january six committee to provide testimony. you guessed it, he has ignored those requests. here is why this is a story of national importance and not local races. pennsylvania is one of the
i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. this week, as voters in five states cast their primary ballots for upcoming midterms, the message from republican voters was really loud and clear. election denialism is alive and well. in north carolina, republicans chose ted budd as their candidate for the senate. last year, budd voted against certifying the 2020 election results. as recently as this week, he refused to say that president biden is the legitimate president of the united states. for the record, in case there is anyone out there who doubts it, joe biden is the legitimate president of united states. in pennsylvania, far-right state senator, doug mastriano, won the republican nomination for governor in a landslide. of course, mastriano attended the rally before the capitol riot on january the sixth. he was actually subpoenaed by the january 6th committee to provide testimony. you guessed it, he has ignored those requests. here is why this is a story of national importance
friends. an updated indictment, filed in federal court this week, revealed that trump pal, tom barrett, who chaired trump s 2017 inaugural committee, sought millions of dollars in investments from the united arab emirates. prosecutors allege that barrrick was at the same time illegally lobbying the trump white house on behalf of the uae. last, year tom barrick and two alleged coconspirators were accused of conspiring to act as agents of the uae, without registering as foreign agents. he pled not guilty to the original criminal count, and is currently awaiting trial. and if that s not bad enough, we also learned this week that the justice department is suing gop mega-donor and former rnc finance chair steve wynn, claiming he made repeated requests on behalf of the chinese government to trump while he was in office. doj is seeking to force wynn to register as a foreign agents,
trump in the early days of his presidency by his own so-called france. an updated indictment, filed in federal court this week, revealed that trump pile, tom barrett, who chaired trump s 2017 inaugural committee, got millions of dollars in investments from the united arab emirates. prosecutors allege that merrick was at the same time illegally lobbying the trump white house on behalf of the uae. last, year tom barrack and two alleged coconspirators were accused of conspiring to act as agents of the uae without registering as agents. he pled not guilty to the original criminal count, and is currently awaiting trial. and if that s not bad enough, we also learned this week that the justice department is suing gop mega donor and former rnc finance chair steve win, claiming he made repeated requests on behalf of the chinese government on behalf of trump while he was in office. the