January 12, 2024
Election - 2024
They tell me there will be an election later this year.
They also tell me that Donald Trump is likely to be the Republican Candidate.
I am just gathering "facts" - insofar as that is possible, that I may want to
ponder later as I decide how to vote.
The constitution
In early 2024, Donald Trump made the following statement on Twitter:
“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of
all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,”
See:
This seems like a surprising statment given that the president must swear to uphold the constitution.
Election Fraud
Was the election stollen?
This seems like a succcint summary of what has gone on in various courtrooms before both Democratic and Republican
appointed judges. The article says most were elected state judges.
Out of 62 cases, 61 failed. For more details, read the article.
The following claim seems accurate:
In more than 60 cases, judges “looked at the allegations that Trump was making and determined they were without any merit.”
An Arizona recount of 2020 election ballots found nothing amiss.
Jan 5, 2022 (Reuters) - Election officials in Arizona's most populous county found nearly every conclusion in a partisan
"audit" of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election to be misleading or false,
according to an official rebuttal released on Wednesday.
Social Security - the third rail of American politics
While Trump said things about cutting Social Security funding during his presidential term, he is now
saying quite the opposite, claiming "he has no plans to touch Social Security."
Last year (2023) Trump said that “under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single
penny from Medicare or Social Security.” He backed that claim up a month ago,
saying that “you don’t have to touch Social Security,”
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