{"id":178848,"date":"2018-08-05T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/05\/this-is-not-a-surprise-2\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T00:33:00","slug":"this-is-not-a-surprise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/05\/this-is-not-a-surprise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the members of Trump&#8217;s voter fraud panel, one who had to sue to get the internal documents of their deliberations, has now gone public, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/politics\/wp\/2018\/08\/03\/the-most-bizarre-thing-ive-ever-been-a-part-of-trump-panel-found-no-voter-fraud-ex-member-says\/\">revealed just how much of clown show the Kris Kobach voter fraud commission was<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of the 11 members of the commission formed by President Trump to investigate supposed voter fraud, issued a scathing rebuke of the disbanded panel on Friday, accusing Vice Chair Kris Kobach and the White House of making false statements and saying that he had concluded that the panel had been set up to try to validate the president\u2019s baseless claims about fraudulent votes in the 2016 election. <\/p>\n<p>Dunlap, one of four Democrats on the panel, made the statements in a report he sent to the commission\u2019s two leaders \u2014 Vice President Pence and Kobach, who is Kansas\u2019s secretary of state \u2014 after reviewing more than 8,000 documents from the group\u2019s work, which he acquired only after a legal fight despite his participation on the panel. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dunlap said that the commission\u2019s documents that were turned over to him underscore the hollowness of those claims: \u201cthey do not contain evidence of widespread voter fraud,\u201d he said in his report, adding that some of the documentation seemed to indicate that the commission was predicting it would find evidence of fraud, evincing \u201ca troubling bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter reading this,\u201d Dunlap said of the more than 8,000 pages of documents in an interview with The Washington Post, \u201cI see that it wasn\u2019t just a matter of investigating President Trump\u2019s claims that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally, but the goal of the commission seems to have been to validate those claims.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was clear from day 1 that the goal of the commission was to perpetrate a fraud on the American public, but it was even worse than it appeared then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the members of Trump&#8217;s voter fraud panel, one who had to sue to get the internal documents of their deliberations, has now gone public, and revealed just how much of clown show the Kris Kobach voter fraud commission was: Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of the 11 members of the commission &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,368,573,364,439,639,454],"class_list":["post-178848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-government","tag-voting","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}