Senate confirmed #HarmeetDhillon to head the Civil Rights Division. She helped Trump spread the #BigLie about voter fraud… and will likely be a major figure in the war on #DEI. But even more pernicious would be a policy of looking the other way on police abuse,… over-policing policies like “stop and frisk”, racially biased pretextual stops of drivers, and indefinite pause on … investigations of police departments suspected of widespread civil rights violations.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/justice-department-civil-rights-division-trump-authoritarian-plans

“Tell a lie so big, advised Hitler, that people will not believe that you would deceive them on such a scale.”
—Timothy Snyder, Blame Canada
#trump #hitler #biglie #lies

"The notion that Canada is not real is an example of the complaisant lies that imperialists tell themselves before beginning doomed wars of aggression. The specific association of Canada with fentanyl is a big lie that allows Americans to shift responsibility away to a chosen enemy and enter a world of geopolitical fantasy."

#Trump #Canada #fentanyl #BigLie #imperialism
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"Trump’s economic plans are incoherent and incomprehensible at least partially by design. The goal, by this longtime scam artist, is to bamboozle the American people and take their money."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Musk #Trump #recession #inflation #authoritarianism #destruction #economy #BigLie
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-budget-2025-big-lie-mike-johnson

…Since launching his 1st Republican presidential campaign in 2015, #Trump has often attacked & even sued #media outlets whose coverage he dislikes, & has repeatedly criticized US #defamation laws.
A federal judge in 2023 threw out Trump's $475M defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which Trump claimed the network's description of his election #fraud as the "#BigLie" associated him w/ #Hitler. Trump's lawyers…invited the judge to reconsider the #legal standard set in #NYTvSullivan.

@w7voa

"When I got to the steps, they knocked me down, stepped on my head, pulled out my shoulder, broke my glasses, I was not breathing," Hemphill said. "If it wasn't for the Capitol Police Officers, I wouldn't be here 'cause I couldn't breathe. They pulled me up and put me behind them."

"The turning point for Hemphill came weeks later, as she learned how much of the "Stop the Steal" movement was based on lies.

"They're lying about everything."

…#Trump’s 2024 election effort was more a #disinformation crusade than a conventional political campaign—a natural outgrowth of his peddling of the #BigLie about the prior presidential election. The falsehoods served him well & protected him from the accurate charge that he imperiled #democracy.

…So the #authoritarian virus that Trump represents has reinfected the political body. This time it’s worse. He has made clear his autocratic intent, with much of it spelled out in #Project2025.

Near the end of his PA speech, #Trump - whose #BigLie that his 2020 loss was the result of fraud inspired his supporters' #Jan6 #insurrection - mused that he should not have handed over power.

"I shouldn't have left. I mean, honestly, because we did so, we did so well," Trump said.

"We had such a great, so now, I mean, every, every polling booth has hundreds of lawyers standing there. It's all about the lawyers," he added.

"Why has Donald Trump shown his darkest side these last few days?

He is energizing his base for the authoritarianism he hopes to bring about. And he is preparing his voters for complicity. ...

[But] Trump is a bully you can topple with your little finger.

Or at least with the hand that casts the vote. All we have to do is go to the polls. We can close the door to that darkness."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #violence #authoritarianism #BigLie
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-power-we-have

"The group has nearly 50,000 members and says that it is meant to be a place where users can 'share potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities you see while voting in the 2024 election.'

In practice, it is a cesspool of election conspiracy theories, alleging everything from unauthorized immigrants voting to misspelled candidate names on ballots."

#Trump #ElonMusk #disinformation #BigLie #Twitter #X
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"Trump has never shown a moment’s doubt or remorse about asking #Congress and his vice president to overturn the #election. In fact, he has continued to wish that they had found some way to let him stay in power.

As Trump’s base quickly returned to him and his support grew, many of those who had denounced the violence reversed course and jumped back onto his bandwagon."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/01/trump-jan-6-violence-certification-pence/

As Ken Bensinger and Kaleigh Rogers report, skewed polls and anonymous betting markets are building up Republicans’ expectations for a Trump victory, and the data "could be held up as evidence of cheating if that victory does not come to pass."

#Trump #Republicans #disinformation #misinformation #BigLie
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/us/politics/trump-harris-partisan-polls.html

A federal court this month halted a similar program in #Alabama after a challenge from the #DOJ, which argued in both cases that ofcls were sweeping #EligibleVoters in their efforts to remove noncitizens. The swift response from fed authorities marked an escalation of enforcement actions on #VotingRights at a time when many leading #Republicans, including #Trump, have made false claims [#lies] of widespread voting fraud, including by undocumented #immigrants.
#law #BigLie #racism #HarrisWalz2024