By Michael Woyton
The administration of the convicted felon, who still doesn’t admit he lost the 2020 election and who has said the Republicans should take over voting in more than a dozen places, has schedule a call with state election officials to discuss the midterm elections.
The invitation for the meeting was made by an “FBI Election Executive” and will include the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Homeland Security Department, the postal service and the Election Assistance Commission, NBC News reported.
Kellie M. Hardiman, who identified herself as an “FBI Election Executive,” signed the invitation, it was reported.
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NBC News said an official who was invited to the meeting and asked not to be identified said no one has heard of Hardiman and “we’re all wondering what an ‘FBI Election Executive’ is.”
This revelation comes on the heels of an FBI raid last week of an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, featuring the appearance of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, PBS News reported.
Initially, the government said that Gabbard just happened to be in the area, but she sent a letter to Congress stating that the president personally asked her to be there as the search warrant for voter rolls was executed by federal agents.
White House Press Liar Secretary Karoline Leavitt added, in an effort to explain more about Gabbard’s role, that this was “a coordinated whole-of-government effort to ensure that our elections, again, are fair and transparent moving forward.”
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, has called on Gabbard to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee about why she was there during the election office raid, CNBC reported.
Warner was especially concerned that Gabbard coordinated a phone call between the president and FBI agents who participated in the raid.
It was inappropriate for the president to involve himself personally in a criminal investigation of an election he lost, Warner told Capitol Hill reporters.
He also sounded alarms about the president suggesting Republicans should nationalize elections.
“That statement alone makes clear that this threat to our election security, the basic premise of our democracy, is forward looking to 2026 into 2028,” Warner was quoted as saying.
The reality is, decentralized voting is a part of the constitution, with individual states setting the rules.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota doesn’t favor federalizing elections, the Wall Street Journal said.
He said it is harder to hack 50 election systems than it would be to hack one.
But that doesn’t mean the felon-in-chief won’t try to muddy the waters as we get closer to the midterms.
Consider the answer Leavitt gave when asked recently whether the president is considering having ICE agents at polling sites, as was suggested by Steve Bannon.
“I can’t guarantee that an ICE agent won’t be around a polling location in November, and that’s frankly a very silly hypothetical question,” she said. “But what I can tell you is I haven’t heard the president discuss any formal plans to put ICE outside of polling locations. It’s a disingenuous question.”
What is a private army for if you can’t use it to intimidate?
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