Trump, boosting Sullivan, claims Alaskans are too stupid to know what 'incumbent' means
The addled Donald Trump, chief campaigner for Sen. Dan Sullivan, is now claiming that people in Alaska are so stupid they don’t know what incumbent means.
“People are totally confused. They shouldn’t be confused when voting. At least let him use the name Sen. Dan Sullivan, as opposed to incumbent because a lot of people don’t know what incumbent means,” Trump claimed to reporters in Washington.
This from the same doddering fool who says people don’t know there is a “b” in dumb.
Trump has made it clear that he wants Alaskans to send Sullivan back to the Senate or else.
He won’t accept Mary Peltola and he is setting the stage to claim the election was rigged. He’s been aided by the Alaska Republican Party, which he controls, with the exception of Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
The decision on who should serve in the U.S. Senate is not up to Trump.
There has never been a worse example of federal overreach in Alaska than Trump’s corrupt assault on our rights.
Trump is lying about the Alaska election every day, while Sullivan, Rep. Nick Begich the Third, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the rest make excuses and hide.
A reporter said that while Trump claims this is unfair, why is it illegal?
“I think it’s illegal because it’s unfair. If it’s unfair you don’t, you, you want fairness in voting. You just said it. I mean you need fairness. It’s. They come up with a guy who’s never par—. He never partook in any election, was never involved. I think he wasn’t even a voter. He didn’t vote. Didn’t do anything. He just happens to have that name. And they. And they. And they put him on. And I think it’s very unfair. So I think Dan Sullivan’s doing great. If they don’t make it unfair,” said Trump.
Trump, who has turned the Department of Justice into the Department of Vengeance against his enemies, ordered Attorney General Todd Blanche to try to prevent Peltola from becoming a senator, even if she wins the popular vote.
Blanche, who is attorney general only because Sullivan cast one of the deciding votes to elevate Trump’s hatchetman, went on national television Sunday and lied over and over again about the lawsuit Trump told him to file. He also lied about the situation in Alaska.
Blanche lied about Alaska’s voting system, and lied that “there are ways – because of the way that Alaska ballots are set up, where – where voters can vote for more than one candidate, there is a way, potentially – we don't know what's going to happen yet – where it will be obvious from the results and from the ballots that voters were confused.”
“And that could be obvious from the way that they rank the Dan Sullivans or not including a Dan Sullivan on the ballot. I don't know yet because there hasn't been an election. But all we are doing is trying to put guardrails in place so that if that – this – that happens, there's a system allowed where the ballots are kept in a way so that we can determine whether there was confusion.”
“It's not saying, don't certify. It's saying, if a court ultimately determines that it was decided because of confusion and not the will of the voters, then we do not think the states should certify, and that's consistent with federal law and consistent with even Alaskan law, if that happens.”
To repeat, Blanche is lying.
Blanche is attorney general because Sen. Dan Sullivan voted for him.
Blanche is lying about Alaska’s election system to try to help Sullivan stay in power.
The Trump circle of corruption is on full display, with Sullivan right in the center of it.
The corrupt attorney general of the United States claims that the Republican elections director in Alaska didn’t want the Petersburg Sullivan on the ballot and the Alaska Supreme Court had no business rejecting her opinion.
What’s obvious is that all this is to create the background for Trump and Sullivan to claim that if Sullivan loses, it will be because of cheating. Sullivan’s behavior in this matter is a disgrace.
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