A Holiday “Truth” From The President

PREVENTING ELECTION FRAUD . . .

. . . is hugely important to Republicans despite it’s being of no consequence, as it is vanishingly rare.*

But!

When laws are broken on behalf of Trump . . . even when it results in death and global condemnation . . . well, that’s different.  Witness the pardoned January 6 felons.

Or, Tuesday night, one of Trump’s final “truths” of 2025, as reported by FOX’s Denver affiliate:

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President Donald Trump is ending 2025 wishing “only the worst” for leaders in Colorado in response to the imprisonment of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is behind bars after being convicted for her role in a 2021 election security breach.

In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, the president called the democratic Governor Jared Polis a “scumbag” and the republican District Attorney Daniel Rubenstein “disgusting” for not making efforts to release Peters.

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“May they rot in hell” Trump concluded in the spirit of the holidays.

For the indicted war criminal Putin, by contrast, who helped elect him, he had nary a bad word all year.

*I asked Copilot whether that was a fair characterization and was told, “Yes — based on the best available data, voter fraud in the United States is vanishingly rare.  Even the Heritage Foundation’s own database shows extremely low rates.  Heritage — a conservative think tank that actively looks for fraud — has compiled decades of cases. In Arizona, over 25 years, with 42.6 million ballots cast, Heritage identified 36 cases of fraud.  In Pennsylvania, over 30 years and 100+ million votes, Heritage found 39 cases.”

Even if you assume only 1 instance in 1,000 is ever reported, it’s still statistically insignificant.  Thirty-nine thousand cases out of over 100 million votes is nothing — especially when you consider that as much voter fraud crimes may be committed to favor Republicans as Democrats — if not more.  Like this one, for example.  So they likely largely cancel each other out, bringing that 39,000 back down to just a few thousand . . . out of over more than 100 million.   

When you think of how hard it is to get legitimate voters out to vote, imagine how hard it is to get ineligible people to risk deportation or prison in order to cast an illegal vote.