{"id":46226,"date":"2021-01-25T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46226"},"modified":"2021-01-25T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T00:00:35","slug":"the-big-lie-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46226","title":{"rendered":"The Big Lie lives on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans continue to cling to The Big Lie \u2026 and it\u2019s infuriating as hell.<\/p>\n

One of them, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, told ABC News that Congress has a responsibility to track down every known instance of voter fraud it can find relating to the 2020 presidential election. When he was told that there is no evidence of widespread fraud, Paul insisted on following that lie down the ol\u2019 rabbit hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two sides to every story,\u201d he told ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos. Except there isn\u2019t another \u201cside\u201d to the lie fomented by Donald Trump, his acolytes in Congress and out here in Voter Land.<\/p>\n

Then came Paul\u2019s effort to defend his integrity by claiming that Stephanopoulos was calling him a liar. He wasn\u2019t. Stephanopoulos said only that Paul and other GOP Trump cultists in the Senate have swallowed The Big Lie.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s revisit what we know, OK?<\/p>\n

Courts have ruled that there is no evidence of widespread fraud. President Biden won the election freely, fairly and without fraud. Every single state in the Union certified the results. The former Attorney General William Barr said there was no evidence of fraud on a scale that would determine the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n

I get that no election is utterly and completely fraud-free. Every election since the founding of our republic has produced isolated incidents \u2013 a voter or two here and\/or there \u2013 of people casting ballots illegally. Is that satisfactory? Of course not! It did not approach the level of \u201cwidespread fraud\u201d that Trump alleged for the entire post-election period leading up to President Biden\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n

The Big Lie resulted in the terrorist attack on Capitol Hill and the second presidential impeachment of Donald Trump. It put members of Congress \u2013 including Sen. Paul \u2013 in dire danger of physical harm \u2026 or worse!<\/p>\n

So, for the Trumpsters who remain in public office to continue to base their search for voter fraud on a lie \u2013 which they surely must know<\/em> to be a lie \u2013 is the height (or depth) of hypocrisy.<\/p>\n\n

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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Congressional Republicans continue to cling to The Big Lie \u2026 and it\u2019s infuriating as hell. One of them, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, told ABC News that Congress has a responsibility to track down every known instance of voter fraud it can find relating to the 2020 presidential election. When … Continue reading The Big Lie lives on<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2505,5131],"class_list":["post-46226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joe-biden","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46228,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46226\/revisions\/46228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}