Arizona election audit fever spreads to Pennsylvania as Trump s Big Lie gains ground
The attack on our democracy is ongoing. And January 6 may have merely been a rehearsal for something even worse.
A supporter of President Trump holds a sign at a Stop the Steal protest in Phoenix, Ariz, on November 7, 2020. Is Pennsylvania next?Cheney Orr / Bloomberg via Getty Images
July 11, 2021, 8:30 AM UTC
Two developments over the last week or so have signaled how the political ground continues to shift under our feet.
Two developments last week signaled how the political ground continues to shift under our feet.
The two events are linked by the same impulse: to retroactively revise the history of the insurrection and the Big Lie in order to further weaken our democratic safeguards. Attention needs to be paid.
Trump’s legal team keeps losing in court >FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2020, photo, a canvas observer photographs Lehigh County provisional ballots as vote counting in the general election continues in Allentown, Pa. President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a number of lawsuits across six battleground states this month as he tried to upend the 2020 election. Judges uniformly rejected his claims of vote fraud. The latest case ended Saturday, Nov. 21, when a federal judge in Pennsylvania said Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani presented only. Mary Altaffer >Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, holds a news conference on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, in Philadelphia. AP FILE PHOTO
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“We find that there is evidence of continuing misconduct, the underlying offense is incredibly serious, and the uncontroverted misconduct in itself will likely result in substantial permanent sanctions at the conclusion of these disciplinary proceedings,” the court explained in its order.
The court, in an opinion that reads like a fact-checking article, singled out several examples of Giuliani’s falsehoods. We have written about some of those, as well as several others. Here we provide a recap of some of Giuliani’s false and misleading election fraud claims.
Pennsylvania ‘Fraud’ Case Without Evidence of Fraud
The New York court order cited Giuliani’s Nov. 17 appearance before a federal court in the matter of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. v Boockvar.
Rudy Giuliani s Pa election lies are at the center of New York s decision to suspend his law license msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.