Elise Stefanik keeps pushing Trump’s election liesRep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) may lose her position as the No. 3 leader for the House Republicans, because she insists that former president Donald Trump is lying when he claims the 2020 election was stolen from him. One of the leading candidates to replace Cheney as Republican conference chair is Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), a die-hard Trump supporter who insists on pushing roundly debunked claims of election “irregularities.” It’s a good litmus test for the House GOP and its adherence to the facts about what many experts call the most secure election in U.S. history. Among other debunked claims, Stefanik in a statement on Jan. 6 claimed that Georgia’s secretary of state, a Republican and avowed Trump supporter named Brad Raffensperger, “unilaterally gutted signature matching for absentee ballots and in essence eliminated voter verification required by state election law. In addition, more than 140,000 votes came from underage, deceased, and otherwise unauthorized voters — in Fulton County alone.” The statement is all wrong and merited Four Pinocchios. Signature matching was not gutted. Raffensperger’s office had nothing to do with the legal settlement Stefanik is referencing (it was the state attorney general). The claim about 140,000 votes is absurd, as it would represent one-quarter of the votes in Atlanta-centric Fulton County.When we reached out, Stefanik’s spokeswoman defended these falsehoods and added another one, to boot!
Here's where American conservatives ran off the rails.
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: 'It's a pound.' Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating." Denis de Rougemont "Compendium: Trump And His Minions Lie-And-Mislead More Easily Than They Metabolize, With A Special Guest Appearance By Master Bull-Shitter, Kayleigh McEnany"
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