Secretary of State: Compromised Election Equipment Can No Longer Be Used In Maricopa County

Back on April 30, I posted about The Certifiably Nuts AZ Senate Sham ‘Fraudit’ Needs To Stop (Updated) (excerpt): Note to the Secretary of State and Maricopa County Board of Supervisors: Now that your election equipment has been compromised by MAGA/QAnon conspiracy nuts, you have to remove this election equipment from any further use and purchase … Read more

Latest Developments in the Arizona Senate’s GQP Sham ‘Fraudit’ (Updated)

To begin, the Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit” gets the Jordan Klepper treatment at The Daily Show (the fake audit meets the fake news). Last Friday, Kory Langhofer, the Senate’s craptacular attorney, demanded that the county provide access to its computer routers and passwords to some equipment. In an email to county legal staff, Langhofer … Read more

Arizona Senate Doubles-Down On GQP Sham ‘Fraudit’ With New Subpoenas

Senate President “Krazy Karen” Fann is doubling-down on her conspiracy theory driven GQP sham “fraudit” of Maricopa County ballots. Howard Fischer reports, Senate to issue new subpoenas for election audit: Senate Republican leaders are setting the stage for a new legal fight with Maricopa County. Kory Langhofer, the attorney for the Senate, said he will … Read more

So Much For Any ‘Transparency’ And Any Credibility Of This Sham ‘Fraudit’ (Updated)

The Arizona Senate GQP Sedition Caucus and the comically named Cyber Ninjas company, whose owner Douglas Logan is a “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theorist (no conflict of interest there), have repeatedly publicly assured us this will be “the most transparent” audit ever. We have seen no evidence of this so far. A live videostream provided … Read more

DNC sues the Trump Campaign, Russia and Wikileaks

Donald Trump’s consigliere Michael Cohen proved to me that he is not a lawyer. If he was, he would have known that filing a civil lawsuit against Stormy Daniels and against Buzzfeed allowed them to conduct legal discovery. He learned a valuable lesson this week.

Now that he knows he is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, he cannot afford to have a parallel civil case where discovery is also being conducted. Cohen drops libel suits against BuzzFeed, Fusion GPS.

Trump’s friend David Pecker at the trash rag National Enquirer took notice as well this week in its case with Trump’s former girlfriend, Karen McDougal. The first domino just fell after the Michael Cohen raid:

The former Playboy playmate reached a settlement Wednesday with American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer, in a deal that allows her to spill about her alleged months-long affair with President Trump. And importantly, the terms of the deal appear quite favorable to McDougal. One possible reason, according to reports and experts: The Cohen raid bolstered her case.

Experts say the combination of that and the favorable terms of the settlement — McDougal basically has to share only a small portion of the profits she might make from selling her story — suggest AMI was worried about what lay ahead.

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