still, though, the trump team achieved something crucial and enduring by convincing tens of millions of angry supporters including a catastrophic 68% of all republicans in the november poll, that the election had been stolen from trump. nothing close to this loss of faith in democracy has happened here before. even confederates recognized abraham lincoln s election. they tried to secede because they knew they had lost. delegitimizing biden s victory was a strategic win for trump then and now because the big lie became the driving passion of the voters who controlled the fate of republican legislators. and trump s fate was in the legislators hands. and explains how the bizarre world theory that republicans and state legislatures should just take over, nullify the actual votes in their states and instead proclaim the winner thev prefer themselves. he goes through and explains how that crazy theory is now not just being propounded by crazy people like rudy guiliani and d sydney powell bu
the other agency the s.e.c. appears in this case to be investigating whether or not thg whole trump media launch might have been illegally structured as a way to raise hundreds of millions of dollars. so it is already under federal investigation by two powerful agencies. naturally you d give up one of the most powerful jobs in government to go do that instead. that s not weird at all. that doesn t suggest anything weird about the perceptions of corruption adjacent to government service in this country. the same former president this weekend last night told an interview on the fox news channel that he fired the fbi director james comey when he was president in order to stop fbi investigations that he believed would result in him being removed as president. he just volunteered this information. he said, quote, don t forget, i fired comey. had i not fired comey you might not be talking to me right now about my four years at the white house. he said, quote, i don t think i could have survi
other without the first one. but today the biden administration rolled out a new, long, u.s. government strategy against corruption. a big 38-page document laying out a whole new approach to ol fighting corruption both at home and abroad, and it includes, for example, concrete new steps to stop people from money laundering, from stashing illegallyom obtained money in u. assets particularly in u.s. real estate.rl that anticorruption strategy being rolled out today. again, the timing on that is helpful for this summit of the democracies this week. so the u.s. government can point to what we re doing on each of these three points on human rights, anticorruption. what is the third one? oh, right. defending against authoritarianism. that one, on the last one, what ohin is the biden administration going to be able to say about its actions there? about its priorities there, about how it is walking the walk and not just talking the talk? defending against authoritarianism.
republican party will be firmly in charge of counting the electoral votes. against biden or another democratic nominee, donald trump may be capable of winning a fair election in 2024, but he does not intend to take that chance meaning he does not intend to take the chance of the election being conducted fairly.he sounds dystopian, i know. but the last time i read something that was simultaneously this serious, this well reported and this dystopian, it was barton gellman in september of 2020, predicting exactly what was going to happen withwh election 2020 and its aftermath up to and including january 6th. the last time i read something this serious and this worrying, it was barton gellman predicting something exactly. well, this is what bart gellman is reporting today. he joins us next.
just declare that trump had won. the legislature, the republican controlled legislature would decide to ignore the vote and just send trump electors to the electoral college even if biden won the state. mark gellman again wrote that in september of last year in advance of the election that that was the plan the trump side was working on, and it seemed crazy at the time. i mean, even as trump was openly laying the groundwork for it before the voting was even started, calling the election a hoax before there was even voting. even then, gellman s report ing seemed like it was visiting from another planet one that wouldn t necessarily sustain democratic life. but then sure enough that is exactly what happened. that is exactly what trump and company did. it is in fact what they re still trying to effectuate, right, in the state legislatures with these election reviews from republican state legislatures in arizona, wisconsin, other states. they are saying the election