Trump’s Townhall Ballot-Box BS Is a Bigger Threat Than You Think

It’s easy to make fun of Donald Trump’s brain vomit unleashed on
CNN Wednesday.  But one of his Big Fibs is seriously
threatening the 2024 election.


Trump said: “If you look at True the Vote, they found millions of
votes on camera, on government cameras, where they were stuffing
ballot boxes. … Look at what happened in Atlanta, millions of
votes, and all you have to do is take a look at government
cameras. You will see them, people going to 28 different voting
booths to vote, to put in seven ballots apiece. I mean, and
they’re all on camera.”


The Palast Investigative team took on this very claim in our film
Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman.


Trump’s claim of one guy stuffing ballots into “28 voting booths”
(he meant, absentee ballot dropboxes) comes, as he says, from the
Texas group of self-proclaimed vote fraud vigilantes True the
Vote, producers of the film 2000 Mules, premiered by Trump at
Mar-a-Lago.


In 2000 Mules, as sinister music plays, we see a Black man get
out of his car, approach a ballot drop box—and put in his
vote. 


Yes, it’s all on camera Mr. Ex-President.  It’s a lot of
shots of Black men…voting, putting their ballots in the
box.  One of them, Mark Andrews, an Atlanta tech exec., who
was hunted down by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation because of
the Trump/True the Vote claim, has now sued True the Vote for
defamation—and they have not denied he was falsely accused. 
(Andrews had placed his ballot in the box along with his wife’s
and three adult kids’ ballots.)


It’s very satisfying to say, as the CNN pundits do, that Trump is
lying, that this ballot-box stuffing claim by True the Vote has
been “de-bunked.” But what preening pundits leave out is that
Trump’s claims have been astonishingly effective in changing laws
to coldly block Black voting. 


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