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[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

A Bush White House spokesman drops a bomb on CNN that nobody saw coming: Barack Obama got on the 2008 Indiana primary ballot with FRAUDULENT signatures.

And he says it to Obama’s own strategist, David Axelrod, sitting three feet away.

AXELROD: [Mocking] "In Arizona, [Trump] hired the cyber ninjas..."

SEAT: “I’ll give you an example of where it [election fraud] has been determinative. And that’s in my home state of Indiana, Saint Joseph County. The gentleman you previously worked for, David Axelrod, Barack Obama got on the ballot because Democrats in that county submitted fraudulent ballot petition signatures. People, including the Democrat county chair, went to jail over that. Barack Obama should not have been on the primary ballot in the state of Indiana.”

KINZINGER: “But that’s not a voting issue. Like that’s something—”

PETE SEAT: “It is a voting issue because he was on the ballot and people could vote for him, and he shouldn't have been.”

AXELROD: “How did how did that get determined?”

SEAT: “It was finally exposed two years later. It went through the courts, and several people found themselves in jail. But that’s the problem. It didn’t happen. They didn’t find it before he was on the ballot. It took years after.”

Pete Seat is right. In 2013, four Indiana Democrats were convicted for forging signatures on the 2008 presidential primary petitions, and county party chair Butch Morgan went to jail for orchestrating it.

They literally copied names off old petitions, including a former governor who confirmed he never signed.

Election fraud is not a conspiracy theory. It happens, and a county chairman of a major party sat in a jail cell for it.

[CWBChicago @CWBChicago]

A drunk driver killed a pedestrian, sped from the scene with her body in his car, then crashed again and ran away, prosecutors say.

But Cook County’s most forgiving judge today refused to keep him in jail — but did order him not to drink too much.

https://t.co/HjmnBvyVan

[Vince Coglianese @VinceCoglianese]

There are a lot of elements to this Air Force One story.

1.) Why was this leaked? Seems treasonous to publicly disclose methods for preventing the president from being assassinated. Now the Secret Service will have a more difficult time using this method to protect any president.

2.) The media are attempting to turn a dramatic story about protecting the president from yet another assassination attempt into an anti-Trump scandal about how the *MEDIA* are actually the victims of this tale. This is precisely the nonsense that has destroyed trust in media.

3.) If you're flying on an Air Force jet as a part of a presidential delegation, you are not just some sitting duck. You're literally being protected by the United States military. The fact that the Secret Service developed an additional layer of protection for the president doesn't mean nobody else is being protected.

4.) WaPo is now admitting this same protection technique was used for Bill Clinton in 2000, with the addition of a body double. The media were on the trip. Is that a scandal, too? Or only when Trump is protected this way?

5.) WaPo claims the Clinton story is different because a single reporter was alerted off the record. We know that now because the reporter just broke the agreement to share that detail. How do we know that didn't happen here? Presumably, an honored off-record agreement would preclude us from knowing that.

There's a lot of typical silly scandalmongering around this story, but there's also some very concerning security leaks going on that only make the president more vulnerable.

[BaseballFan @MommaDeisch]

@GovPritzker And the media out every other president-Democrat or Republican- in jeopardy by leaking this protocol. Go to hell.

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: Former Dem Sen. Claire McCaskill *ADMITS* on MS NOW they'd be PRAISING Trump plane switch if he were Democrat🇺🇸

"If we had a Democratic president in the SAME position, I think ALL of us would say, 'Well, I'm GLAD they figured out a way to protect the president better.'"

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

As an addendum:

When I was the Air Force Military Aide to @BillClinton, we:

1) snuck the president to visit the troops deployed to Bosnia for Christmas Eve, 1997. Nobody knew.
2) we used the catering truck once to get Bill on AF-1. Nobody knew.

The differences? Nobody leaked trying to damage the president and these same “news agencies” were silent.

That’s the truth.

[BaseballFan @MommaDeisch]

@MLB X3!!!!!

[BaseballFan @MommaDeisch]

@FreddyLA7 You have to go to the Naval Academy and West Point. Unbelievable experience

[BaseballFan @MommaDeisch]

@EricLDaugh And they need to think about the fact that these policies will protect future presidents of ANY AND ALL POLITICAL PARTIES!!!

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

She loved escaping the NY lockdowns (that she supported) to relax in free Florida (which she criticized)!

[BaseballFan @MommaDeisch]

@johnkonrad Honest question. What is their age of fetus policy on criminal charging if a pregnant woman's baby is killed in the commission of a crime? Is the fetus considered a person in charging at 34 weeks?

[TV News Now @TVNewsNow]

🚨 BOOM! Fox News liberal panelist Harold Ford Jr SLAMS AOC: “There are no legislative outcomes to point to. No legislative accomplishments to point to. No campaign themes other than ‘Trump is terrible.’ What is it you support? No substance, no answers.”

[BaseballFan @MommaDeisch]

@atrupar Do you idiots not realize that this exact Secret Service protocol protects EVERY PRESIDENT OF EVERY POLITICAL PARTY? Now future Presidents of every party will be at risk bc the Washington Post had to get the current president. Fucking ignorant to reveal this.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This new tactic of AOC and her allies -- to giggle away their past "crazy" ideas -- should not be tolerated.

"Woke" wasn't just some harmless, zany moment. It was a sinister movement that destroyed careers and reputations for the smallest thought crimes. It needs a reckoning.

[Dittrich4WI @Dittrich4WI]

Trust me. I've served with her. All of her backpedaling is phony. She is as radical as her original quotes. Go pull up all of the WisEye video coverage of committee hearings she's in, like the Assembly Committee on Education.

[TheReformRepublican @TheReformRepub1]

Jakey, you forgot to mention that you were happy for USAF and USMC personnel to fly decoy aircraft EVERY time you traveled with a president.

The "real" AF1 plane carrying staff and reporters out of Turkey was itself protected by a decoy, you nitwit. It also carried defenses not available to the 757 carrying Trump and Hegseth.

[Tracie James @TracieJames777]

@jaketapper Really Jake, it’s not the first time

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

More texts reveal that Biden era US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy responded to Fauci’s concern about the COVID vaccine in pregnant women by adding “I’ve been hearing concern about the mRNA causing mutations in the developing fetus as well.”

None of these concerns were ever made public.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Oh look, my childhood. Lebanon went from a majority Christian nation to a majority Muslim nation in just a few decades.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

It was the pressing down of any disagreement or question, it was the constant threat of violence, it was the destruction of the careers and lives of countless people (and the consequent evisceration of the entertainment industry), it was the the removal of choice for vaccines, it was the inflamation of racism, it was the neutering of law enforcement, it was the numbing of meritocracy, it was the dismantling of the spirit of quite a few cities (and the accompanying declining property values), it was the collapse of a political party, it was the crushing of common sense (particularly in the young), it was the ruin of university value, it was the end of trust in the media, it was the fostering of the most selfish era in modern society.
It was fascism, intolerance, and decidedly un-American. It was shameful and despicable.
It was not “bad tweets.”