It’s easy to make fun of Donald Trump’s brain vomit unleashed on CNN Wednesday. But one of his Big Fibs is seriously threatening the 2024 election.
Trump said: “If you look at True the Vote, they found millions of votes on camera, on government cameras, where they were stuffing ballot boxes. … Look at what happened in Atlanta, millions of votes, and all you have to do is take a look at government cameras. You will see them, people going to 28 different voting booths to vote, to put in seven ballots apiece. I mean, and they’re all on camera.”
The Palast Investigative team took on this very claim in our film Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman.
Trump’s claim of one guy stuffing ballots into “28 voting booths” (he meant, absentee ballot dropboxes) comes, as he says, from the Texas group of self-proclaimed vote fraud vigilantes True the Vote, producers of the film 2000 Mules, premiered by Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
In 2000 Mules, as sinister music plays, we see a Black man get out of his car, approach a ballot drop box—and put in his vote.
Yes, it’s all on camera Mr. Ex-President. It’s a lot of shots of Black men…voting, putting their ballots in the box. One of them, Mark Andrews, an Atlanta tech exec., who was hunted down by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation because of the Trump/True the Vote claim, has now sued True the Vote for defamation—and they have not denied he was falsely accused. (Andrews had placed his ballot in the box along with his wife’s and three adult kids’ ballots.)
It’s very satisfying to say, as the CNN pundits do, that Trump is lying, that this ballot-box stuffing claim by True the Vote has been “de-bunked.” But what preening pundits leave out is that Trump’s claims have been astonishingly effective in changing laws to coldly block Black voting.
▶️ Get the full story at GregPalast.com
Reality Check: The Vaxhole Epidemic
FlashPoints: Hate goes on trial in Charlottesville
My Own Forever War: Afghanistan and 9-11
The Extraordinary Case of Chevron v. Steven Donziger
Reality Check: Palast with Steven Donziger & John Perkins
Manchin’s Freedom to Vote Act Ain’t Going Nowhere!
Ed Asner reads - Mr. Beale, Meet Mr. Palast
Ed Asner reads What Price A Storegasm
North Carolina Court Rules To End Ex-Con Con-Job
Palast on Drive Time: “I let the Chevron lawyers hang themselves.”
FlashPoints feat. Steven Donziger
Haiti: The Trail of Blood That Leads Back to The U.S.
The Devastating SCOTUS Ruling Against Voting Rights
Uncovered: Illegal Attack on 364,000 Georgia Voters
Election Crimes Bulletin: Is it time we made Manchin a verb?
Texas: Are the Republicans going to sweep back in next year?
Deepwater Horizon: The Lies & Bribes That Keep Big Oil Flowing
SB202: Follow The Money – FlashPoints ECB
Fault Lines: SB202 — Jim Crow Horror Show
Why Asian-Americans were the main target of GOP vote suppression in Georgia
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Jim & Bill (It‘s Another Day)
HauntingLive
Dr. Paul’s Worldviews
The Ben Shapiro Show
Morning Wire