Trump Forces Wisconsin Republicans To Keep Wasting Money Chasing Ghosts

Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature are still pushing their audit of the 2020 election, even after their preliminary report found zero evidence of rampant fraud that could have swayed the election. They are continuing this failed crusade after pressure from Trump, and now they are grossly over budget and making every excuse possible to justify their efforts. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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The state of Wisconsin has now spent close to 1 million of taxpayer money. Of course, auditing the state's 20, 20 presidential election votes. Yes, folks, we are in June of 2022 and Republicans in the state are still auditing the votes that happened in November of 2020, where a year and a half removed from that election and Republicans won't let it die. And of course, part of the reason they're not gonna let it die is because Donald Trump very recently told them they have to keep going because he issued a bit of a threat to a Republican assembly speaker, Robin Vos, essentially suggesting that if Vos didn't keep this bogus election audit running, he was going to endorse Voss primary opponent Vos, literally within hours caved and green lit the probe to continue. And the reason he even had to green light it to continue in the first place is because Michael Gman the former conservative Supreme court justice from the state of Wisconsin had issued a preliminary report, which was essentially supposed to be a final report that said, Hey, there's no fraud. Couldn't find it. I've been looking at it for a year and it doesn't exist if y'all want to throw out by the way, the state's election results. However, I'm okay with that. He says in the report, uh, not in those words, I'm paraphrasing. He did suggest throwing it out. But he also said, I can't find the fraud.

And that was supposed to be the end of it. Vos was gonna end it. But Trump came along and said, Nope, you gotta keep going. So now of course, they're way over budget. Cuz they had originally allocated 676,000 for the investigation. It has now cost them $896,500. But a spokesperson for VO came out this week and said, oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That ti that that total is absolutely inaccurate because we're not actually factoring in lawsuit costs, you know? Um, so it's actually should be much lower you're including the lawsuit costs and you shouldn't because we, we don't like to include that still comes outta the same pot of money folks. Okay. So it's still the same thing they're just saying. Yeah. But if you, you know, don't count the money we've spent, then we're not over budget. It's like going to your bank after you've overdrafted and said, well, yeah, I'm only overdrafted, but that's, that's only if you count my expenses. If you don't count my expenses, then I have tons of money left in the bank. That's that's not how money works. So I don't know how this individual got a job as a spokesman for the assembly speaker in Wisconsin, but they're not very bright. So I think maybe they need to go back to school and I'm not

Talking. I think we're at, you know, second grade math levels that this person needs to understand. Now here's the kicker. These lawsuits that these Republicans say are obstructing. The probe are actually doing the opposite because the reason that they're facing lawsuits is because they're violating the state's open records laws. That's right. These Republicans who again, already released a preliminary report saying that we can't find any fraud are also not making the findings public. So Democrats are suing, make 'em public. We have open records laws here, here, you have to show us what you're doing. You know, you're spending almost a million dollars now by the time it's all over, it'll be well over a million show us what's happening. And Republicans are using that to say, well, Democrats are obstructing. No, they're literally trying to not obstruct. You're obstructing by hiding it. And you're also very clearly breaking the law. So that's, what's happening up in the state of Wisconsin. It's all very confusing. It's all very stupid. And it is all because Donald Trump will never let the fact that he lost to Joe Biden in 2020 go.