The summons to Rudy Giuliani is only part of a case that analyzes the illegal handling to support the hoax that there was a rigging at the polls
The investigation into Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, for his alleged involvement in spreading falsehoods that underpin the “electoral fraud” theory denounced by his boss to annul Joe Biden’s victory is just the tip of the iceberg of much-needed investigations. that try to demonstrate the existence of a national plot to bring down the voting system in the United States. Prosecutors from several states, but mainly from Michigan, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Georgia, analyze the movements in the months after the defeat of the leader Republican from a group of related lawyers and dozens of constitutional bailiffs who allegedly accessed the reserved content of electronic voting machines with the argument of looking for evidence of a rigging.
Its objective, according to the investigations, was to support a whole delirious battery of conspiracy hypotheses that would explain Trump’s defeat at the polls: since the devices had remained under the foreign control of China, Russia or Venezuela until microchips had been introduced. capable of erasing the votes of the Republican candidate and changing them in favor of Biden. What is unique about the case is that the individuals under suspicion even wanted to prove the presence of these chips in schools that gave overwhelming support to Trump.
The question might seem humorous were it not for its extreme seriousness. Access to electronic voting systems by persons other than the electoral officials responsible for their custody is illegal. The White House considers these machines as a “critical infrastructure” of a key nature for national security. The State Administration is obliged to remove each device if it suspects that the chain of custody has been broken at any time. This is what has happened to dozens of them since 2020.
But in addition to the legal aspect, there are two derivatives. If the plot is proven, it would be clear that a large number of lawyers, bailiffs, technicians and public employees could have collaborated to implant a lie and break the 2020 presidential elections. The authorities fear that all these actions will undermine the confidence of Americans in the system and the confidentiality of your data, especially when the partial elections in November are approaching.
Several countries use electronic voting. The US does it in some states, but even so, the majority of the population that takes the physical ballot to the polls. Prosecutors have put all their efforts into this investigation to support what dozens of expert reports have already confirmed – that the machines are safe and none were manipulated two years ago in November in favor of Biden – and, above all, to prosecute those who plotted the plot of the rigging. The process can counteract the damage of the Trumpist messages and the far-right movements against the quality of democracy in the country, whose violent consequence was already exposed in the assault on the Capitol.
The prosecutors work in parallel, but their investigations seem to converge towards the same point, which could put dozens of people in different states on the bench. One of the eyes is on several Trump-affiliated lawyers who allegedly sent at least three computer teams to Georgia, Nevada and Detroit, Michigan, in order to access the hard drives and tabulators of the voting equipment and copy data. confidential, according to ‘The Washington Post’. “The scope of this is amazing,” revealed one of the lawyers who defend the integrity of the companies that manufacture the devices. Among the names cited is that of the lawyer Sidney Powell, a well-known conspiracy theorist who last year faced the lawsuit of one of these manufacturers, whose technicians accused of “injecting votes” for Biden hours after the polling stations closed. Far from her former position, Powell later acknowledged that the fraud theory was a lie. “No reasonable person would have believed it,” she said.
Another front of interest comes from a small number of constitutional bailiffs, a former body created to enforce the mandates of the high courts and whose website boasts that it “precedes even the powers of the president.” About 300 sheriffs belong to this group and, of them, about thirty are considered Republicans sympathetic to Trump. They have become known during the pandemic for their relaxation in ensuring the application of the measures against the cornavirus dictated by the Democratic Administration.
before the grand jury
At a recent conference, Calvin Hayden, one of his spokesmen, claimed that he had received more than 200 complaints of electoral fraud (all of them false). “I have sent my detectives. I have a cyber expert. I sent him to start evaluating what is happening with the machines », Hayden declared before his colleagues. Among those who listened to him was Dar Leaf, sheriff of Barry County (Michigan), and Chris Schmaling, of Racine (Wisconsin), also cited. The investigations, according to the American newspaper, indicate that certain sheriffs and other public employees managed to convince the electoral officials of several districts to give them the machines. They then inspected their tabulators in hotel rooms or rented tourist apartments and returned them to their custodians in shopping malls and parking lots.
But today is Rudy Giuliani day. He is subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury in Fulton, Georgia, and it is possible that he will invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid incriminating himself. The prosecutor, Fani T. Willis, is a criminal expert who does not rule out calling Trump as a witness to see if he and his allies called Georgia officials to annul the election result.
Biden, the Inflation Reduction Act and Liz Cheney’s challenge
President Joe Biden yesterday signed the Inflation Reduction Act that contemplates the largest federal investment in the history of the United States -375,000 million dollars- for the fight against climate change -in the process it will generate thousands of jobs in green energy-, the limitation of the prices of medicines such as insulin and aid for the payment of health insurance. The president will immediately begin a tour of the country to present his great social plan, convinced of its benefits to improve the presidential image before the November elections and, possibly, those of 2024.
The White House wants to see more talk about this law and less about the success of Donald Trump’s sponsored candidates in the Republican primaries. So far, Trumpism has triumphed in a dozen internal elections in what is beginning to be interpreted as the former president’s “revenge” against the Republican leaders who have not supported him in his denunciation of the alleged “electoral fraud” or in the case of the assault to the Capitol.
The point of interest last night was focused on Wyoming, where Liz Cheney, vice president of the congressional panel that investigates this insurrection, faces Harriet Hageman, the candidate close to the tycoon. Cheney has not been able to hold public events during the campaign after receiving death threats and most analyzes of her give her as the loser of the night. However, more and more voices are growing that take for granted that the Republican will run for the 2024 elections on her behalf after the prestige achieved by her resistance to Trump.
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