The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-national-committee-rnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican National Committee</a> and the presidential campaign for former President Donald Trump announced on Friday a plan to mobilize over 100,000 &#8220;election integrity&#8221; volunteers and lawyers across expected battleground states for the 2024 election.
The plan will include having people to monitor both polling voting sites and ballot tabulation centers in what the RNC <a href="https://gop.com/press-release/trump-campaign-and-rnc-unveil-historic-100000-person-strong-election-integrity-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the “most extensive and monumental election integrity program in the nation&#8217;s history.” An “Election Integrity Hotline” will be set up in each battleground state where lawyers will monitor questions or concerns from those monitoring the voting. States typically included as battlegrounds include Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Nevada. 
“Every ballot. Every precinct. Every processing center. Every county. Every battleground state. We will be there,” said RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump. &#8220;The RNC is hiring hundreds of election integrity staff across the map – more than ever before because our Party will be recruiting thousands of more observers to protect the vote in 2024. These campaign officials in states are tasked with recruiting, training, and when possible, shifting poll watchers and poll workers day in and day out.&#8221;
The efforts were backed by Trump, who has frequently raised questions about the results of the 2020 election. 
“Having the right people to count the ballots is just as important as turning out voters on Election Day,” Trump said. “Republicans are now working together to protect the vote and ensure a big win on November 5th!”
The RNC said that it would have five primary focuses for observation and potential litigation including voting machine testing, early voting, election day voting, mail ballot processing, and post-election audits and recounts. 
&#8220;Election integrity is the foundation of our democracy,&#8221; said RNC Chair Michael Whatley. &#8220;Through this unprecedented program, we are mobilizing lawyers and volunteers who are committed to preserving the sanctity of our elections.&#8221;
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The plan has already drawn criticism from Democrats who claim that the Republicans are trying to suppress the vote. 
&#8220;I think they are going to have a massive voter suppression operation and it is going to involve very, very large numbers of people and very, very large numbers of lawyers,&#8221; Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-rnc-vote-monitor-election-integrity-rcna148557" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC. &#8220;I think we need to take the RNC literally and seriously — except on their numbers.&#8221;
In recent weeks, the RNC has filed numerous election-related lawsuits in states like Michigan and Nevada, which are both expected to be crucial for deciding the presidential election. Currently, the RealClearPolitics <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling average</a> shows Trump with a 0.4-point lead over President Joe Biden.

Donald Trump Hosts Caucus Night Watch Party In Las Vegas

RNC To Mobilize 100,000 ‘Election Integrity’ Workers Across Battleground States

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A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> election official was found guilty of voter fraud charges on Wednesday after she generated ballots for fictional members of the military during the 2022 election. 
Former Milwaukee Election Commission Deputy Commissioner Kimberly Zapata was <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/03/20/former-milwaukee-election-deputy-convicted-in-fake-military-ballots/72950576007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> guilty of felony misconduct in public office and three misdemeanor counts of making a false statement to obtain an absentee ballot. Zapata’s lawyers claimed that she was a whistleblower trying to expose loopholes in the Wisconsin election system while the jury determined that she had committed election fraud. 
During the 2022 election cycle, Zapata used My Vote Wisconsin to obtain three absentee ballots using the names of fictional military members. The ballots were sent to the home of state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a Republican who voiced questions about the integrity of the 2020 election. Military members do not need to show an ID to obtain an absentee ballot in Wisconsin.
Brandtjen reported the ballots addressed to fictitious military members, and shortly after, Zapata was fired and accused of voter fraud. 
“We rely on our election workers to maintain the integrity of our election system,” Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Matthew Westphal said during the trial, <a href="https://www.wpr.org/news/jury-former-milwaukee-election-official-guilty-election-fraud-zapata" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WPR. “Ms. Zapata took a tiny hammer and started chiseling away at that foundation. Instead of helping secure the absentee ballot system, she introduced fraud into that system.”
Lawyer Daniel Adams, who defended Zapata, claimed she was trying to expose vulnerabilities in the election system. 
“She was a whistleblower, she was showing the truth, with an action — an imperfect action, but a truthful action — what was going on,” he said. “There’s a huge flaw here, and if people don’t take it seriously, some nefarious person will do something bad with this flaw in the system.”
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Brandtjen said she was unaware of why the ballots were sent to her and had never spoken with Zapata.
“If Ms. Zapata had wished to raise concerns about the election process, she could have done so anonymously by contacting appropriate authorities rather than jeopardizing her job and reputation,” she said. “I cannot speak to Kim Zapata’s intent as I have never spoken with her.”
Zapata, who will be sentenced in May, could face more than four years in prison and over $10,000 in fines for all four counts. 
Headed into 2024, election measures are expected to be scrutinized as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump appear set for a rematch. The Wisconsin Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wisconsin-supreme-court-bans-uses-of-drop-boxes-in-elections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously ruled</a> that the widespread use of ballot drop boxes in the 2020 election violated state election law.

Election Day in the United States of America – WISCONSIN

Former Wisconsin Election Official Found Guilty Of Generating Absentee Ballots For Fictitious Voters

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia</a> Democrats last week took control of the state House and retained control of the state Senate by one seat &#8212; but a winning senator may have lied about residing in the district, a situation that could lead to the chamber falling into Republican hands.
Democrats are slated to control the state Senate 21-19, but if Ghazala Hashmi is ineligible to hold office because she lied on her campaign paperwork, then a situation could arise where she is replaced by a Republican, and Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears would cast tie-breaking votes.
Virginia Senate candidates are required to live in the district they are running for, and Hashmi filed candidacy paperwork saying she lived in an apartment on Boulder Lake Drive in North Chesterfield in Senate District 15.
But four neighbors filed a complaint saying she actually lives outside the district on Bosham Lane in Midlothian, and they provided a spreadsheet saying they had driven by the house 62 times during the month of October to document her residency. The notes include her car being there late at night and early in the morning, and her leaving the house shortly after 8 a.m. It also includes photographic evidence.
Putting Hashmi in a particular bind, if she did live in the Chesterfield apartment, then she may have committed a felony by concealing her ownership of the Midlothian home on sworn election forms.
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/Ghazala-F.-Hashmi-501-soei_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Certificate of Candidacy Qualification</a>, which she signed March 14, 2023, says, “I now reside at the address shown below in the district in which I seek office,” under which she listed the North Chesterfield apartment.
The form also asks, “Do you or a member of your immediately family, separately or together, hold an interest valued at more than $5,000 in real property? DO NOT INCLUDE your principal residence.” She checked “no,” and did not list the Midlothian home. Real estate records show that she and her husband have owned that &#8212; worth nearly $600,000 &#8212; since 1999.
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The form says “knowingly making any untrue statement or entry in this document is a felony under Virginia law. The punishment is a maximum fine of $2,500 and/or confinement for up to ten years. Also, you lose your right to vote.”
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Hashmi is a current senator representing the old Senate District 10, which includes Midlothian. But after once-a-decade redistricting this year, her house became part of a new District 12. But she decided to run in neighboring District 15, representing Chesterfield County and part of Richmond, and apparently rented an apartment to have an address there.
Her home of 24 years is not currently listed for sale, according to real estate websites. Her car, observed to be parked there regularly, is easily identifiable because it has special legislator plates.
Hashmi won her election against Republican Hayden Fisher last Tuesday with 62% of the vote. Fisher told The Daily Wire, “I plan to stop them from certifying the election. She’s disqualified, that means I ran unopposed as a matter of law.”
“There’s no question whatsoever that she does not live in that apartment,” he said. &#8220;She definitely clearly intentionally lied on that form. And she does not reside in the district so she should not represent it.”
“She made no genuine effort to actually move into the district, she just rented an apartment. Why don’t you just sell your house and move into the district? She just doesn’t even care. The arrogance is mind boggling,” he said.
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“Even if you look only at the document itself, she&#8217;s claiming she lives in this apartment and she didn’t list that she owns a secondary residence, when it&#8217;s a matter of public record that she owns it,” he added. “Number one, it&#8217;s a crime, number two, the board of elections should remove her.”
“If she cares about democracy the way she and the Democrats claim they care about democracy, then she should voluntarily concede this election to me,” he said.
Fisher, a lawyer, said Hashmi’s votes must be declared null and void, and therefore the election goes to the second-place candidate &#8212; him. Holding a new election would not be appropriate because it would not punish the conduct, he said, and because of Democrats’ new law requiring 45 days of early voting, it would be enormously expensive to taxpayers and candidates, and leave residents of the district without a senator for months.
“Should the commonwealth have to pay for a special election because the Democrats&#8217; candidate was dishonest?” he asked.
The complaint by four neighbors, which Fisher was not involved with, was dated October 31 and was addressed to Chesterfield County Registrar Missy Vera. Vera did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire. Hashmi also did not return a request for comment.
The candidacy form was signed under penalty of perjury and notarized in Chesterfield County. Election fraud and perjury charges could be brought by Chesterfield County Commonwealth Attorney Stacey T. Davenport, a Republican. However, Davenport narrowly lost her reelection bid on Tuesday and will be replaced next year by independent candidate Erin Barr.
“She should prosecute this completely because it’s open and shut. Either she&#8217;s living in the apartment and she had to list the residence, or shes living in the residence and she lied about living [in] the apartment. Either way she’s lying and it&#8217;s not a small matter, it goes directly to her qualifications,” Fisher said.
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Virginia Dems Could Lose Control Of State Senate Because Member May Have Lied About Residence

Virginia Dems Could Lose Control Of State Senate Because One Of Its Members May Have Lied About Her Residence

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A judge has ruled that a Democratic mayoral primary in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/connecticut" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Connecticut</a> be held again after surveillance videos emerged that captured a city official and former city councilwoman appearing to place numerous ballots into a drop box in a way that violated state election law. 
Superior Court Judge William F. Clark ordered the new primary after Bridgeport incumbent Democratic Mayor Joe Ganim won a narrow victory over challenger John Gomes last month. Gomes, who lost by 251 votes after 81,873 were cast, had sued City Clerk Charles Clemons, Jr., alleging election fraud. 
Clark ruled that footage showed city <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/bridgeport-wanda-geter-pataky-absentee-ballots-18376914.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">employee</a> Wanda Geter-Pataky and former Councilwoman Eneida Martinez broke the law when they &#8220;mishandled&#8221; ballots. 
“Therefore, the counting of any ballots that were mishandled in violation of state law and placed into drop boxes by Ms. Geter-Pataky, Ms. Martinez, and others, was a mistake in the vote count. Given the volume of votes at issue, the miscounting of those statutorily invalid votes leaves this court unable to determine the result of the primary,” the judge <a href="https://civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov/DocumentInquiry/DocumentInquiry.aspx?DocumentNo=26199518" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Wednesday. 
The judge said that Geter-Pataky actively dropped “numerous ballots into the box herself,” sometimes very early in the morning or late at night. He also pointed to footage that appeared to show her handling stacks of ballots and escorting people to drop off multiple ballots. 
“These instances do not appear to be random. They appear to be conscious acts with a partisan purpose that violates the mandatory requirements of how absentee ballots are supposed to be handled or delivered,” Clark said. 
Geter-Pataky and Martinez pointed to their Fifth Amendment rights when asked about some of their actions during testimony before Clark last month. 
“The volume of evidence in this case, including the many hundreds of hours of video surveillance disclosed and accepted into evidence is, perhaps, unprecedented in the state of Connecticut in an election case,” the judge said, who added that the videos were “shocking.”
Gomes called the decision “a victory for the people of Bridgeport.” 
“Our campaign always believed that the integrity of our democratic process must be upheld and Superior Court Judge William Clark agreed,” he said. Gomes had previously shared footage on Facebook of individuals dropping off ballots at drop boxes.
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No date for the new primary has been set yet because it might not be necessary. It all depends on what happens in the upcoming November 7 general election when Ganim faces off against Gomes, who is running as an independent, and Republican David Herz. 
If Gomes wins on November 7, his legal team said they would withdraw the complaint, and Gomes would become mayor. If Ganim wins, another Democratic primary would be held, per Judge Clark&#8217;s ruling.
If a new Democratic primary is held and Gomes wins, a new general election would be scheduled, according to Gomes&#8217; attorney. If Ganim were to win, he would be re-elected mayor. No further general election would take place because Gomes&#8217; complaint sought a new primary election, <a href="https://ctmirror.org/2023/11/01/bridgeport-primary-election-ruling-ganim-gomes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Connecticut Mirror.
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Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas agreed with the court order.
“We’re pleased Judge Clark is protecting the integrity of our elections by ordering a new Primary Election,” she said. “Per the Court’s decision, the Secretary of the State’s office will confer with the mayoral candidate campaigns, elections officials in Bridgeport, and other officials to determine the date of the new Primary within 10 days.”
Connecticut state Senate Minority Leader Kevin Kelly, a Republican, said the ruling confirmed concerns about the potential for abuse of absentee ballots. 
“These videos confirm our fears about how absentee ballots can be misused. Now the court has spoken,” he said. “What we need now is trust, faith and confidence in our electoral system.”

Connecticut Holds Primary Elections After Two Postponements

New Mayoral Democratic Primary Ordered After ‘Shocking’ Videos Of Ballot Drop Boxes Emerge

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The Democrat running for the Virginia House of Delegates who infamously raised money by selling sex acts online might not be eligible to be on the ballot at all — one of the forms she filed to run for office appears to have a fake signature on it, and is being investigated by authorities.
The Louisa County Sheriff’s Department is investigating whether someone else signed the filing for Democrat Susanna Gibson, and whether the notary who swore she watched her sign it — a paralegal at her husband’s law firm — might have committed perjury.
The document says that &#8220;knowingly making any untrue statement or entry in this document is a felony under Virginia law. The punishment is a maximum fine of $2,500 and/or confinement for up to ten years. Also, you lose your right to vote.&#8221;
The signature on Gibson&#8217;s Certificate of Candidate Qualification looks nothing like her signature on another election document, the Statement of Economic Interests conflict-of-interest form.
Additionally, the suspicious signature is dated February 13, whereas notary Donna L. Martin attested to verifying Gibson&#8217;s identity and watching her sign it on February 14.
Martin, reached at the Law Offices of John David Gibson, hung up the phone abruptly when The Daily Wire asked about her stamp of the document.
Conservative activist and researcher Mike Dickinson obtained the forms under the Freedom of Information Act and filed a complaint with the Louisa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, which confirmed that it is investigating.
&#8220;The notary either allowed someone to sign not in front of them or allowed another person to sign,&#8221; Dickinson told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Both are easy to investigate: Pull the notary&#8217;s logbook and see who provided ID to the notary &#8230; Pull the signer&#8217;s drivers license from DMV for signature comparison.&#8221;
&#8220;If the paperwork has any issues on it the paperwork is invalid,&#8221; he said.
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<a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title24.2/chapter10/section24.2-1016/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia law</a> governing election documents says, “Any willfully false material statement or entry made by any person in any statement, form, or report required by this title shall constitute the crime of election fraud and be punishable as a Class 5 felony.”
The Virginia Department of Elections did not return a request for comment.
It is the third law that the would-be-lawmaker may have violated, the first being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-prosecutor-coordinated-with-porn-candidate-instead-of-prosecuting-her-for-prostitution-records-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prostitution</a> and the second being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginias-porn-candidate-may-have-broken-law-by-claiming-to-be-a-nurse-without-a-license" target="_blank" rel="noopener">falsely claiming to be a nurse.</a>
Gibson is running in Henrico County, which has a Democrat prosecutor, Shannon Taylor, who is a member of the Virginia Progressive Prosecutors Association, many of whose members are George Soros-funded prosecutors who say that they will ignore state laws for political reasons.  The <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title24.2/chapter10/section24.2-1019/">election law statute</a> indicates that it would be Taylor responsible for prosecuting Gibson.
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But Gibson&#8217;s other possible crimes have highlighted the way that Virginia laws did not anticipate the impact of far-Left prosecutors who openly pledge to ignore laws they don’t like. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that far from prosecuting Gibson, Taylor appeared to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-prosecutor-coordinated-with-porn-candidate-instead-of-prosecuting-her-for-prostitution-records-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">using government resources to assist her fellow Democrat’s campaign</a> with public relations around her porn scandal, which caused national scorn.
The signature issue is different because Gibson’s husband, John David Gibson, practices law in neighboring Louisa County, which is where the notary says she witnessed Gibson sign the form.
Christian Adams, an election attorney who has tried elections cases in Virginia, said &#8220;A notary swears that they witnessed the person sign. If Gibson didn’t sign this then the notary faces some potential serious consequences.&#8221;
He said Gibson&#8217;s Republican opponent, David Owen, &#8220;could go to court to seek a declaratory judgment that Gibson is not a proper candidate.&#8221; But with early voting already having begun, that could be an uphill climb.
Gibson’s attorney, Daniel Watkins, did not return a request for comment.
In addition to practicing law, her husband also co-starred in her adult films. In videos filmed last year, Gibson said she had sex with three men in one day, and “don’t tell my husband he was the third.&#8221; She can be heard in the videos saying “he doesn’t like sharing” her with other men, with her husband saying, “Sometimes I have to though. She makes me.”
Men watched her live on a site called Chaturbate, and could ask her to perform specific sex acts, which she would do if they paid her in “tokens,” with more money warranting more extreme sex acts. In the videos, made shortly after she began her campaign, she said she was raising money for a “good cause.”

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Police Are Investigating Possible Election Fraud By Virginia’s Porn Candidate

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A Virginia school board member seeking a promotion to the state legislature may have used her position in an attempt to sabotage her election opponent — a teacher in the school district she presides over, records show.
Democrat Stella Pekarsky, who currently serves on the Fairfax County School Board, was personally involved in discussions over whether to punish Julie Perry, a history teacher who is running against her in this year’s District 36 Senate race, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23986992-pekarsky-foia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emails and calendar entries</a> obtained by The Daily Wire through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The records show a Pekarsky donor sent Centreville High School Principal Chad Lehman a complaint objecting to conservative social media posts the history teacher made as part of her campaign. Lehman forwarded the complaint to the school board&#8217;s Assistant Superintendent Penny Gros, who said she would seek guidance about what to do. That guidance appears to have come from none other than Pekarsky, and it was followed by a memo reprimanding Perry and threatening her job.
“Your behavior negatively impacts the goals of this department and others,” the reprimand said, citing the campaign posts. “Any action that brings the school system into disrepute may be just cause for dismissal.”
Experts said the conduct of Pekarsky and taxpayer-funded employees could constitute serious misconduct intended to impact the election, saying it is improper for individual board members to be involved in the discipline of specific teachers — much less their own campaign opponents.
The initial complaint came on May 7, not long after Perry announced that she was running for the same seat as Pekarsky, from Robert Rigby, a substitute teacher who is close with Pekarsky. Rigby wrote to Principal Lehman to say that he had filed a complaint with Child Protective Services (CPS) against Perry, citing a social media post she made regarding scientific research that found that autistic children are especially prone to transgenderism.
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Lehman forwarded the complaint to his supervisor, Gros, who said she would &#8220;follow up tomorrow after getting some guidance.&#8221;
The next day, CPS alerted the school that it had dismissed the complaint as unfounded. But soon after, a second complaint was made asking the school itself to take action.
That complaint came on May 11 at 3:15 p.m., when Vanessa Hall – a local Democrat activist who was <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/committee/family-life-education-curriculum-advisory-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appointed</a> to a sex-ed committee by the school board – emailed Lehman pointing to Perry&#8217;s &#8220;numerous social media posts that are homophobic, transphobic, and deeply hurtful to the entire community.&#8221; It said that the tweet — in which Perry said she had personally seen how trangender ideology affected an autistic student — showed that &#8220;she is using students for her political gain.&#8221;
Lehman again forwarded the email to Gros, and calendar entries obtained by The Daily Wire indicate that she within an hour was meeting with Pekarsky to discuss Perry. Gros’ calendar shows a “Phone Call: Stella (re: Julie Perry)” for 4:00 to 4:30 that day, according to emails and calendar entries. And at 4:29, Gros replied to Lehman that she was ready to discuss how to proceed, saying, “I am available if you are.”
A FOIA request for references to Perry in Gros&#8217; account showed no evidence that she consulted anyone else other than Pekarsky for &#8220;guidance&#8221; on the matter.
The next week, Lehman summoned Perry to a meeting in which Hall’s complaint and the fact that a CPS complaint was filed were used as evidence that she had brought the school system into “disrepute,” even though CPS dismissed the complaint, according to a summary memo that Lehman placed in Perry&#8217;s personnel file.
The reprimand ordered Perry to avoid any posts on social media that reference her teaching position.
“Moving forward, you must avoid social media posts that draw a connection to &#8230; your role as a teacher at Centreville High School,” it said. (Pekarsky’s own website <a href="https://stellapekarsky.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says she is a teacher</a>, even though, according to public records, she does not have a <a href="https://vadoe.mylicense.com/verification/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaching license</a>.)
Pam Kirby, a former member of the Scottsdale, Arizona, school board who now leads the Arizona Coalition for School Board Members, said it would be abnormal for an individual school board member to be involved in the discipline case of a specific employee.
School board members have “no authority” as individuals, “they only have authority as a body” through votes, she told The Daily Wire. “It&#8217;s abusing your role as a school board member, whether there&#8217;s an election or not. That authority is given to the superintendent, and the board manages the superintendent,” she said.
The <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CV6K6B504D07/$file/Manual%20revisions%20approved%20-%207-13-23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">governance manual</a> outlining the role of the Fairfax County School board members requires members to agree to &#8220;delegate authority for the administration of the schools to the Superintendent” and “refrain from using the board position for personal or partisan gain and avoid any conflict of interest or the appearance of impropriety.”
“I will respect the confidentiality of privileged information and make no individual decisions or commitments that might compromise the board or administration,” it says.
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The board’s <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CKEJJH4D68C5/$file/P1801.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conflict of Interest Policy</a> further states that “a School Board member shall disqualify himself or herself from participating in any transaction on behalf of the school system if he or she has a personal interest,” noting that “violation of the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, which is the basis of this policy, may result in enforcement action by the Commonwealth Attorney, including but not limited to criminal prosecution.”
Virginia <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacodepopularnames/state-and-local-government-conflict-of-interests-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> says a public official may not “use for his own economic benefit or that of another party confidential information that he has acquired by reason of his public position” or “use his public position to retaliate or threaten to retaliate against any person for expressing views on matters of public concern.”
In the Fairfax County Public Schools rulebook, it says that a dispute over how policy applies to an employee personnel matter would only reach the school board after <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BY5HWF4A7833/$file/R4461.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">six layers of appeals</a>.
Violations of rules for board members can result in the “removal from any leadership or committee positions.”
Pekarsky, who is squaring off against Perry for the Senate seat representing western Fairfax County with early voting starting this week, acknowledged in a statement that the CPS call by her donor was a &#8220;misuse&#8221; of the CPS system, but claimed she did not know about it. &#8220;I have recused myself from anything to do with any internal school system process involving her,&#8221; she said.
A FOIA request of Pekarsky&#8217;s emails including Perry&#8217;s name showed no email saying she recused herself from anything
Pekarsky did not deny the &#8220;Phone Call: Stella (re: Julie Perry)&#8221; immediately following the CPS complaint, and did not explain the records or what would have been discussed if not the CPS complaint, instead suggesting that her opponent is a Nazi.
A spokesperson for FCPS defended the contact between the school and Pekarsky. “There is an expectation that all Fairfax County Public Schools regional area superintendents keep their magisterial school board members informed about matters that could be of community concern at any schools under that member’s purview,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;Such updates are informational.”
But Karen Hilz, a former school board member in Franklin County, Virginia, who has run trainings for school board members, said “The pecking order is assistant superintendent, superintendent, board. So why wasn’t it elevated to the superintendent to inform the board? … And did they reach out solely to [Pekarsky] or inform all board members? If it’s for information purposes you inform all school board members.”
She said the conduct by political activists, FCPS staff, and Pekarsky was “without a doubt election interference.”
“Obviously there’s a relationship there, is what it seems to me, and they were collaborating on what to do with an opponent, which is totally inappropriate,” she added.
Perry said a successful CPS complaint would mean “they would have fired me immediately, ripped my teachers license away from me, I would have never gotten another teaching job, and there’s a chance I would have gone to jail,” she said.
The school district initially attempted to conceal the identities of both Hall and Rigby under FOIA, before conceding that it had no justification for withholding Hall’s name. It continued to conceal Rigby’s name, saying CPS complaints are private under the law.
But Hayden Fisher, a lawyer who is running for another state Senate seat as a Republican, noted that <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title63.2/chapter15/section63.2-1514/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia law</a> also says a complainant&#8217;s identity can be unmasked if the complaint was &#8220;in bad faith or with malicious intent.&#8221; Representing Perry, he made that argument in court.
On September 8, a Fairfax County judge <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23986994-pekarsky-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compelled CPS</a> to provide the name of the complainant for his review. The judge said he would investigate whether the person is tied to Pekarsky, and if he found connections, the complaint would likely be presumed to be malicious, Fisher said.
Perry deleted the tweet after only an hour, meaning it was seen by few people and the two complainants were likely working together, Fisher said.
Public records reviewed by The Daily Wire show that Hall, who emailed a complaint to the principal, is one of four officers of a Democrat activist group called <a href="https://cis.scc.virginia.gov/EntitySearch/BusinessInformation?businessId=11378816&amp;source=FromEntityResult&amp;isSeries%20=%20false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4 Public Education</a>. Another officer of that group is Rigby, raising the possibility that Rigby filed the CPS complaint, with Hall following up with a school-specific complaint when the CPS complaint did not work.
Rigby last year served as an advisor to the Pride Liberation Project, which said it would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-trans-group-behind-virginia-school-walkout-plans-to-rehome-gay-kids-who-hate-their-parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harbor minors</a> who wanted to run away from their parents, saying, &#8220;In the event of you needing to leave your home, we can provide you with emergency housing from a supportive, Queer friendly adult.&#8221;
Rigby acknowledged to The Daily Wire that he made the CPS complaint.
Rigby has donated more than <a href="https://www.vpap.org/donors/323895-robert-rigby/?start_year=2018&amp;end_year=2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$9,000</a> to Virginia Democrats since 2018, including more than $800 to Pekarsky. He donated to Pekarsky’s Senate campaign three days after Pekarsky spoke to the assistant superintendent, and one day before the principal summoned Perry to threaten her with discipline.
That means the judge may rule the complaint malicious. But that might not come until after the election, with voting beginning September 22 and ending November 7.
Perry said “there have to be consequences” that punish election interference.

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Republican presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy">Vivek Ramaswamy</a> once promoted moving to an entirely electronic, remote, and mandatory voting system before launching his presidential campaign.
After the presidential election in November 2020, Ramaswamy advocated on social media for “electronic at-home voting,” arguing that it could drastically cut down on fraud.
“Electronic at-home voting. Make it universal; submit a blank ballot if you want,” he wrote. “One per SSN for every adult citizen. No ballot fraud. No voter suppression. No wasted money on “get-out-the-vote.” Most importantly: greater civic engagement. Thoughts?”
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Electronic at-home voting. Make it universal; submit a blank ballot if you want. One per SSN for every adult citizen. No ballot fraud. No voter suppression. No wasted money on “get-out-the-vote.” Most importantly: greater civic engagement. Thoughts?
&mdash; Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1324018402562772992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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He also said that he wanted to make it mandatory.
“I’m suggesting making it mandatory,” he wrote.
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I’m suggesting making it mandatory.
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Ramaswamy’s past remarks have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ramaswamy-floated-mandatory-voting-casting-electronic-ballots-home">resurfaced</a> after a widely reported moment from an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ramaswamy-confirms-he-called-trump-sore-loser-trades-barbs-with-pence">interview</a> over the weekend with NBC News, in which he presented a very different reform plan. The political newcomer claimed to &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; that had he been vice president on January 6, 2021, that he would have &#8220;driven&#8221; the U.S. Senate to pass “single-day voting on Election Day,” “paper ballots,” and “government-issued ID matching the voter file.”
“I would have driven it through the Senate,” he said.
Former Vice President Mike Pence’s presidential campaign responded to Ramaswamy’s remarks by noting that he wrote different things in his book “Nation of Victims,” published in September 2022.
Pence’s team specifically highlighted how Ramaswamy praised Pence for his actions on January 6, 2021.
“Mike Pence, a man I have great respect for, decided it was his constitutional duty to resist the president’s attempts to get him to unilaterally overturn the results of the election, even in the face of the January 6 Capitol riot,” Ramaswamy wrote, later adding: “I’m simply not convinced the election was stolen.”
Ramaswamy&#8217;s campaign later put out a statement responding to criticism over his election integrity platform, his book, and other aspects of his recent NBC News appearance.
&#8220;Ramaswamy advocates for a practical solution to address widespread concerns about U.S. election security that will help move the nation forward, after which a President Ramaswamy would lead all Americans to accept the results of elections without questioning their outcomes,&#8221; Ramaswamy campaign spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
McLaughlin said Pence&#8217;s comments are &#8220;dead wrong&#8221; and &#8220;reflect desperation.&#8221;
This article has been updated with comments from Ramaswamy&#8217;s campaign.

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A former federal prosecutor called the racketeering conspiracy indictment against former President Donald Trump and his allies a flawed case, claiming attempts to change an election outcome are legal and an actual criminal enterprise must be a continuing threat.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis launched a 41-count indictment against Trump and 18 co-conspirators last week, accusing the defendants of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election result by allegedly violating the state&#8217;s version of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and soliciting an official to violate their oath of office.
Although Georgia&#8217;s RICO Act allows prosecutors to connect various crimes committed by multiple defendants, former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York Andrew McCarthy wrote an <a href="https://themessenger.com/opinion/the-flaw-in-trumps-georgia-indictment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece for The Messenger</a> pointing to &#8220;a giant hole&#8221; in the case due to &#8220;the lack of a clear crime to which Trump and his co-defendants can plausibly be said to have agreed.&#8221;
Racketeering conspiracy charges typically apply to mafia-type criminal organizations that engage in offenses you would see in an episode of &#8220;The Sopranos.&#8221; But because conspiracy charges require an agreement with two or more people to violate a criminal statute, McCarthy said that if there is no agreement about committing a crime, there is no conspiracy.
In the indictment, Willis alleges that Trump and the co-conspirators tried to keep the former president in power after the 2020 election results claimed otherwise by explicitly attempting to &#8220;change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.&#8221; Yet trying to reverse the election results without sharing an &#8220;overarching objective&#8221; is technically not a crime, McCarthy said.
He further alleges Willis is attempting to get around proof of the objective by using tautology in the charges, specifically noting on page 14 of the indictment that this was a &#8220;conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;That is, the lawful objective of changing the election outcome somehow becomes unlawful because she invokes the apparently talismanic word &#8216;unlawful,'&#8221; McCarthy wrote. &#8220;But there is no crime of unlawfully trying to change an election outcome — not in Georgia law nor any other American law.&#8221;
McCarthy also said the RICO charge doesn&#8217;t fit the Georgia case because Trump and the co-defendants &#8220;did not intend or desire to belong to a group, or even see themselves as a group.&#8221;
&#8220;Their objective allegedly was to maintain Trump in power, not to participate in an enterprise,&#8221; he wrote.
Democratic State Representative Tonya Miller of Georgia, also a former prosecutor in Fulton County, told <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/before-trump-fani-willis-used-rico-in-a-cheating-scandal-191214661527" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC</a> on Sunday that the word &#8220;enterprise&#8221; under state law is defined broadly and includes one or more persons, legal or illegal businesses, and government agencies.
&#8220;RICO is particularly — in Georgia — particularly broad, more so than the federal version of RICO, because it isn&#8217;t just crimes that can form the basis of racketeering activity,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;It can be acts involving crimes, threats involving crimes, so it really can get conduct that isn&#8217;t necessarily on its face criminal. We see that in this indictment.&#8221;
At the end of each act in the indictment, Willis alleges the defendants and other members and associates of the enterprise committed overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.
Emory University Law Professor Fred Smith Jr. told the outlet that the act of conspiracy could count so long as the action was in furtherance of the same goal.
&#8220;Now, of course, there does need to be illegal activity, a pattern of illegal activity, which under Georgia law is two crimes that are listed in that particular state statute,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;But all other actions that may not themselves be illegal, so long as they were in furtherance of that same scheme, that same illegal goal can qualify.&#8221;

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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are urging him to cancel a press conference where he vows to back up his claims of election fraud in Georgia.
“A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete &amp; will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11:00 A.M. on Monday of next week in Bedminster, New Jersey,” Trump wrote in a statement posted on social media earlier this week. “Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me &amp; others – There will be a complete EXONERATION!”
“They never went after those that Rigged the Election,” he continued. “They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!”
However, multiple news organizations are now reporting that Trump&#8217;s own lawyers are advising him to cancel the event because it could expose him to further legal consequences. ABC News, which broke the news, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-legal-advisers-urge-cancel-press-conference-refute/story?id=102336380&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the press conference was now &#8220;very much in doubt.&#8221; Other <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/08/17/2023/trump-georgia-press-conference-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> said that some of Trump&#8217;s aides were still pushing him to hold the event.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/us/politics/trump-election-report-georgia-indictment.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the report that Trump was expected to release is a 100+ page document compiled by one of his communications aides who is said to be a &#8220;true believer&#8221; in the former president&#8217;s claims that the election was rigged and stolen.
In response to Trump&#8217;s announcement about the Monday press conference, Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp posted a screenshot of Trump’s statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, and wrote: “The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen.”
“For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward — under oath — and prove anything in a court of law,” Kemp said. “Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I am governor. The future of our country is at stake in 2024 and that must be our focus.”
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The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen. 
For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward &#8211; under oath &#8211; and prove anything in a court of law. Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I… <a href="https://t.co/jaru2iBDo7">pic.twitter.com/jaru2iBDo7</a>
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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee will preside over the highly-scrutinized trial of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> and his allies over their actions during the 2020 election, just six months after being appointed to the position by Georgia Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/brian-kemp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Kemp</a>. 
McAfee, 34, who <a href="https://www.fultoncourt.org/judge/judge-scott-mcafee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">got</a> his law degree from the University of Georgia, has previously worked for Kemp as the Peach State’s inspector general and worked under Democrat Fulton County District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgia-prosecutor-ready-to-go-with-trump-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fani Willis</a>. 
Under Willis, McAfee worked with the complex trial division for the Fulton County District Attorney’s office, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/us/elections/scott-mcafee-trump-judge.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Times. “While with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, Judge McAfee started in the complaint room and worked his way up to the major case division where he exclusively handled homicide prosecutions,” McAfee’s 2024 judicial campaign website <a href="https://www.keepjudgemcafee.com/#Issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>
He later became a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Georgia, where he worked on major drug trafficking investigations. With the feds, McAfee worked under U.S. Attorney Byung Pak, who <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-forced-georgia-u-s-attorney-to-resign-11610225840#:~:text=White%20House%20officials%20pushed%20Atlanta%27s,familiar%20with%20the%20matter%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">later exited</a> the position after clashing with Trump over his voter fraud claims. 
After his work prosecuting drug and fraud related crimes, McAfee took a job as Georgia’s inspector general. 
&#8220;Scott McAfee is a strong addition to my administration,&#8221; Kemp <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/who-is-scott-mcafee-judge-trump-case-georgia/44817639" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time. &#8220;His experience as a tough prosecutor equips him to search out fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption, and bring those to justice who break the law.&#8221;
In December 2022, McAfee was appointed by Kemp to Fulton County Superior Court, where he <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-handle-trump-case/story?id=102278055" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood to pay $5,000 after he was held in contempt of court for comments he made about ex-associates for a case <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-scott-mcafee-to-preside-trump-case-in-georgia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not connected</a> to Wood&#8217;s actions during the 2020 election. 
&#8220;I can&#8217;t overlook the protracted and flagrant nature of the violation,&#8221; McAfee said at the time. 
Additionally, McAfee previously interned for former Georgia Supreme Court Judges David Nahmias and Keith Blackwell, both of whom were appointed by Republicans.
McAfee <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/us/elections/scott-mcafee-trump-judge.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was</a> the vice president of the Federalist Society and the treasurer of Law Republicans while at law school. He has also appeared to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Scott+McAfee&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">give</a> several hundred dollars to Republican candidates in Georgia, including Kemp. 
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Willis has proposed starting the trial date for Trump and 18 of his allies on March 4, which would be just one week before the Georgia Republican presidential primary. 
Trump has decried the prosecution and said that he will produce evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election next Monday. 
&#8220;Like Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, Deranged Jack Smith, and New York AG Letitia James, Fulton County, GA&#8217;s radical Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis is a rabid partisan who is campaigning and fundraising on a platform of prosecuting President Trump through these bogus indictments,” Trump <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/trump-issues-statement-after-fulton-county-grand-jury-hands-up-indictments-in-georgia-election-case#:~:text=%22Like%20Manhattan%20DA%20Alvin%20Bragg,Trump%20through%20these%20bogus%20indictments." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response to the latest indictment. 
The former president also faces trials in New York, Florida, and Washington, D.C.

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Georgia&#8217;s Fulton County District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fulton-county-prosecutors-have-another-recording-of-trump-pressuring-georgia-house-speaker-to-overturn-election-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fani Willis</a> proposed starting the trial in her RICO case against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> and 18 of his allies roughly one week before the state&#8217;s primary.
In <a href="https://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/2092/MOTION-08-16-2023-151715-39070073-1C86D04A-9755-4D11-B5B2-0C36FAC21C70">a filing on Wednesday</a>, Willis&#8217; team asked the presiding judge to consider a scheduling order that would have arraignments for the defendants on the week of September 5 and a trial commencing on March 4, 2024.
The suggested trial start date is significant because it falls on the calendar one day before Super Tuesday and eight days before Georgia&#8217;s primary <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/2024-state-primary-election-dates">set for March 12</a>. Trump is currently the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.
As <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/breaking-fulton-da-proposes-march-4-trial-date-for-trump-18-co-defendants/CGWTOCQZ4NAMNKGUAM4LXAXY4Q/">noted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a>, it is unlikely Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee will make a decision on the proposed scheduling order until hearing from the defendants.
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade wrote in the filing for Willis&#8217; team that their proposed dates &#8220;do not conflict&#8221; with already-scheduled hearings and trial dates in other cases, specifically mentioning Trump. The filing additionally proposes other dates regarding discovery and other issues leading up to the trial.
A hush-money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is scheduled to go to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-23/trump-gets-march-25-2024-trial-date-in-ny-hush-money-case">trial on March 25</a>. Special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s documents case against Trump is <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-trial-date-documents-case-may-20-2024/">set to begin on May 20</a> in Florida. And in a federal case focused on the 2020 election, Smith has asked for a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/10/special-counsel-wants-jan-2-trial-in-trump-election-case.html">January 2 trial start date</a> in Washington, D.C.
Trump also faces a fraud suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James that is set to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/20/1185762259/trump-criminal-civil-cases-lawsuits">go to trial in October</a> and a defamation lawsuit brought by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-tosses-trumps-defamation-claim-against-e-jean-carroll">writer E. Jean Carroll</a>, who accuses the former president of raping her, with a trial in that case expected in mid-January.
Across all the legal matters, Trump has broadly denied any wrongdoing. When it comes to the four criminal cases, he has claimed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fulton-da-responds-to-trump-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">politically motivated forces</a> are targeting him in a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; propagated by the Biden administration and Democrat prosecutors in New York and Georgia.
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In the Georgia case, Trump and 18 others were charged this week in an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the last presidential election in the state. At a press conference on Monday, Willis <a href="https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1691752832628613178">said</a> she would give the defendants subject to arrest warrants &#8220;the opportunity&#8221; to voluntarily surrender by noon on Friday, August 25.
<a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110893712805150244">With a post to Truth Social</a> on Tuesday, Trump said he is planning to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-on-fulton-county-charges-i-have-irrefutable-election-fraud-evidence-complete-exoneration">produce a report</a> showing fraud in Georgia&#8217;s 2020 election at a press conference next week that will hurt Willis&#8217; case against him and his co-defendants.
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Georgia Prosecutor Wants Trump Trial To Start One Week Before State’s Primary

Georgia Prosecutor Wants Trump Trial To Start One Week Before State's Primary

A Trump-era White House lawyer warned on Tuesday night that former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> should not hold a press conference on Monday detailing what he claims are examples of election fraud because it could land him in hot water.
Ty Cobb made the remarks after Trump was hit with 13 criminal charges in an indictment out of Fulton County, Georgia, over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“A Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete &amp; will be presented by me at a major News Conference at 11:00 A.M. on Monday of next week in Bedminster, New Jersey,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-on-fulton-county-charges-i-have-irrefutable-election-fraud-evidence-complete-exoneration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a statement posted on social media. “Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me &amp; others – There will be a complete EXONERATION!”
“They never went after those that Rigged the Election,” he continued. “They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!”
Cobb told CNN that he thought Trump&#8217;s remarks were &#8220;all Trump PR&#8221; and cautioned the former president from going through with the plan.
&#8220;This is, you know, generating chaos. I mean, frankly, there’s a good chance that whatever document he produces ends up as evidence against him,&#8221; Cobb said. &#8220;It could even end up as the basis for an obstruction count against the author because it’s likely to be fiction and solely for the purpose of contaminating the jury pool.&#8221;
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Trump was charged with 3 counts of Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer, 2 counts of Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree, 2 counts of Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings, 2 counts of False Statements and Writings, Violation of the Georgia RICO Act, Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer, Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents, and Filing False Documents.
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The 18 others charged in Fulton County include: Rudy Giuliani, lawyer; Ray Smith III, lawyer; Cathy Latham, alleged fake elector; Robert Cheeley, lawyer; John Eastman, lawyer; David Shafer, alleged fake elector; Shawn Still, alleged fake elector; Sidney Powell, lawyer; Kenneth Chesebro, lawyer; Michael Roman, Trump campaign staffer; Misty Hampton, Coffee County elections supervisor; Scott Hall, Bail Bondsman; Stephen Lee, Pastor; Trevian Kutti, Publicist; Willie Lewis Floyd III, former leader of “Black Voices for Trump”; Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff; Jeffrey Clark, former DOJ official; and Jenna Ellis, lawyer.

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