More zombie apocalypse news. Not that it's news that trumputinists are mindless zombies.
.. BTW, trumptards - dictators are great until they stop doing what the useful idiots who put them in power want them to, then find them guilty of disloyalty.
NICHOLAS RICCARDI and DAVID KLEPPER
Mon, August 21, 2023 at 12:07 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
and
charging Donald Trump with lying about the 2020 election to overturn President Joe Biden’s win have done nothing to slow the geyser of election falsehoods flowing from the former president and his supporters.
Just two days after the Georgia indictment, one of Trump’s most enthusiastic backers took the stage at a conference in Missouri to again spread election misinformation.
, the owner of MyPillow who is a vocal promoter of the myth that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, kicked off an event on purported election crimes with a video about fraud.
It included footage from November 2020 that purported to show a Fulton County, Georgia, election worker pulling a briefcase of ballots from under a desk to surreptitiously add them to the tally.
As evidence has since shown, the worker, Ruby Freeman, was simply doing her job — pulling out a standard government container full of real ballots that had to be counted.
, including one by hand, showed the ballots were tallied properly and the results were accurate.
But Freeman and her daughter, who also worked in the elections office that night, were targeted by Trump and his allies and accused of helping throw the election to Biden, compared to drug dealers and deluged with threats. The women
about their ordeal and sued several Trump backers, including former
, for libel. The lies about them are a central part of last week’s indictment of Trump and his allies for allegedly conspiring to spread misinformation to steal the Georgia election.
Yet they persisted. During his conference, Lindell prefaced the video by saying “it isn’t about evidence” and meant to evoke the atmosphere of December 2020, as Trump was challenging the election results and trying to find avenues to remain in power. The anonymously produced video, full of fevered reports of other ”anomalies” in the election, opens with the words “this video is pure data.”
“I never forgot this video,” Lindell said.
Nor has the Republican electorate. Although Trump’s allegations have
— often by
— they’ve taken a firm hold among his party. An
found 57% of Republicans said they didn’t view
as a legitimately elected president.
The 98-page Georgia indictment lists several false allegations made by Trump that were quickly disproven by fellow Republicans, Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, and Gov. Brian Kemp. Still, Trump insists to this day that the election was stolen from him and continues to
.
After the indictment, he promised a press conference this week revealing a report he claimed would show how the Georgia election was stolen from him —
on Thursday, saying his lawyers wanted to make his argument in a court filing instead.
“Does anybody really believe I lost Georgia?” Trump asked on his Truth Social network Saturday. “I DON’T.”
By repeating the lie over and over, even when it has been repeatedly exposed as baseless, Trump is not only ensuring that his loyal followers remain energized, but also dominating the discussion and forcing others to relitigate the 2020 election on his terms.
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.. As Orwell predicted - Trump tells his loyal zombie supporters that only he will tell them the truth. You can not believe what you see and hear with your own eyes and ears.
.. As Goebbels demonstrated - repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth (to the zombies anyway).
Truths are lies and lies truth - Orwell.
