The Arizona “audit” finally seems to be wrapping up. Prepare for a blizzard of disinformation.
Fittingly, the proceedings are ending with an investigation of a bizarre Trump conspiracy theory.www.vox.com
Inevitably, that means Cyber Ninjas will make claims just plausible enough to get credulous coverage from pro-Trump media, even if the claims can’t withstand scrutiny from impartial fact-checkers. Those claims can then be amplified by elected Republicans who won’t let facts get in the way of their narrative.
So when the Arizona “audit” report finally drops, know in advance it’ll almost certainly contain flimsy claims of fraud and nods to wild conspiracy theories. Fact-checkers will just as surely get busy debunking it, but in the increasingly shameless environment of Trump’s Republican Party, their findings will either be ignored or summarily dismissed as the product of media outlets that were in on the plot.
This is not about convincing you guys that are part of a small (10 to 15) percentage of the population of what happened as you will be the last to stray from your world view and belief on what did or did not happen. This is about exposing a full and solid majority of the American people to what happened as this process moves forward. I hope at some point that you guys on this board will actually give a fair look at the evidence and be able to accept what is going to happen and live with it in the future.