Donald Trump humiliatingly losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden and being booted out of office after a single term put him and his supporters in an existential crisis. If Trump is an all-conquering winner, then his losing the election must mean it was rigged!
True believers like Marjorie Taylor Greene are still frantically beating this drum three years on. Maybe she didn’t get the memo that off-camera even Fox News thought it was ridiculous?
Ah yes “gun point”, or to put it another, more accurate, way a settlement between two companies in which they entered into a mutual remedy without the intervention of a judge or jury.
Also, while picking holes in Greene’s understanding of Communism feels somewhat redundant at this point, we seriously doubt Communist governments are enthusiastic about getting profiteering companies to run their elections. That’s 100 percent a capitalism move, baby!
Greene continuing to cling to all this is depressing even for her, particularly as the conspiracy theory was dealt a mortal blow by revelations surrounding Dominion’s lawsuit against Fox News. Behind the scenes, rabid right-wing talking head Tucker Carlson considered the idea “insane” and “absurd, ” while Sean Hannity called Greene and her ilk “f**king lunatics”. They’re laughing at you, Marjorie!
Faced with yet more humiliation in court Fox has now settled and will pay Dominion $787.5 million, with the terms of the settlement underlining that Fox acknowledges that “certain claims about Dominion to be false”. Despite all this, we doubt allegations of “the steal” is ever truly going away, though at this point anyone still on board the conspiracy train is probably too far gone to help.
Published: Apr 20, 2023 01:14 am