<p>A prominent Wisconsin Republican delivered a stinging rebuke of the state legislature’s “investigation” into the 2020 presidential election results Monday, saying her party should move on from bogus claims of voter fraud for its own good, and for the good of the country. </p> Talking Points Memo
Read More...<p>In his newly released book about his time serving in the Trump administration, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows wrote that he was so infuriated when Fox News first called Joe Biden’s electoral win in Arizona on election night that he proceeded to angrily dial an editor at the network to contest Trump’s projected loss, according to <a href=”https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-dialed-fox-editor-bill-sammon-arizona-call-biden-2021-12?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4″>Insider</a>.</p> Talking Points Memo
Read More...<p class=”is-style-sans-serif”><em>This article is part of <a href=”https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe”>TPM Cafe</a>, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It first appeared at <a href=”https://theconversation.com/how-conspiracy-theories-in-the-us-became-more-personal-more-cruel-and-more-mainstream-after-the-sandy-hook-shootings-172015″>The Conversation</a>.</em></p> <p>Conspiracy theories are powerful forces in the U.S. They have damaged public health amid a global pandemic, shaken faith in the democratic process and <a href=”https://abcnews.go.com/US/qanon-emerges-recurring-theme-criminal-cases-tied-us/story?id=75347445″>helped spark</a> a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.</p> <p>These conspiracy theories are part of a dangerous misinformation crisis that has been building for years in the U.S.</p> <p>American politics has long had a <a href=”https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/”>paranoid streak</a>, and belief in conspiracy…
Read More...<p>The Jan. 6 Committee issued subpoenas on Friday to six more people who were involved in organizing rallies around the capital promoting the Big Lie. </p> Talking Points Memo
Read More...<p>Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows reportedly produced text messages and emails that show he was “exchanging with a wide range of individuals while the attack was underway” to the Jan. 6 committee, according to <a href=”https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/politics/january-6-committee-mark-meadows-texts/”>CNN</a>.</p> Talking Points Memo
Read More...<p>Federal appeals court finds Trump’s claims of executive privilege to block a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee to be <a href=”https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-january-6-subpoena-appeal”>utterly without merit</a>.</p> Talking Points Memo
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