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While losing all but one of his spurious court challenges to the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump frantically assembled the irrational “legal” team of Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, and the Overstock.com guy.
This brain trust proposed an executive order that, among other absurdities, directed the U.S. military to seize voting machines from states. In the heated verbal brawl that followed, White House counsel Pat Cipollone finally pronounced with fervent zeal, “That’s not how we do things in the United States.”
Fast forward to the recent derrière-kissing affair at Treasure Island. There, Sheriff Joe Lombardo and Adam Laxalt — wearing their Trumpy red ties — nodded and smiled as the wannabe insurrectionist continued to spew big lie nonsense. In addition, he opined how Nevada is a “cesspool of crime” while Lombardo, who has led Clark County law enforcement since 2015, just smiled along. Hey, Joe, that’s your legacy.
Laxalt was deep in the big lie as co-chairman of the Nevada Trump reelection campaign. He speciously claimed, among other banalities — and this from a former attorney general — that over 3,000 ballots were fraudulent. They were not. They were legal absentee ballots. For a former Naval JAG officer, he should know what an absentee ballot is, unless he never voted while in uniform — or maybe he was just doing Trump’s bidding.
And now they yearn for greater positions of political responsibility? No thanks.
