Donald Trump’s new Cabinet is continuing to fill with individuals responsible for pushing conspiracy theories involving the 2020 election and January 6th, including Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and others. David Corn, Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief, and Tara Setmayer, Co-Founder and CEO of The Seneca Project, join Joy Reid to discuss.
This is an adapted excerpt from the Dec. 17 episode of “The ReidOut.” On Tuesday, electors from all 50 states met in their capitals to cast their official votes for the next president of the United States. This is known as the meeting of the Electoral College and the process is laid out in Chapter 1, Section 7 of the United States Code: For as long as this process has been on the books, and in Article 2 of the U.S.
However, she was one of the earliest promoters of Trump’s baseless election fraud claims in 2020. The Washington Post laid out how deep her involvement went, including how Bondi was reportedly involved in convincing Rudy Giuliani to join the effort to overturn the election — a legal and rhetorical bullying campaign that has only brought professional sanctions, disbarment and financial ruin for the former mayor of New York.
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