NEW YORK POST: "Former Houston Cop Arrested for Attacking Repairman Over Bizarre Voter Fraud Claims"

From Kenneth Garger's 12-15-20 NEW YORK POST article entitled "Former Houston Cop Arrested for Attacking Repairman Over Bizarre Voter Fraud Claims":

A former Houston Police Department captain was arrested Tuesday for allegedly pointing a gun at an air conditioner repairman he thought was orchestrating a massive voter fraud scheme, prosecutors said.

Mark Aguirre, 63, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the Oct. 19 confrontation, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.

Aguirre, a member of a group of private citizens conducting their own probe into an alleged ballot scheme, rammed his SUV into the man’s work truck — believing the victim was hauling around 750,000 fraudulent ballots, prosecutors said. 

The former cop then pointed his handgun at the technician when he exited his vehicle and forced him to the ground, according to prosecutors.

The day of the incident, Aguirre received $211,400 from Houston-based Liberty Center for God and Country. The group’s CEO is well-known right-wing activist Steven Hotze, The Texas Tribune reported.

Inside the man’s work truck, police found air conditioning parts and tools, not ballots, prosecutors said.

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From Chris Matthews' 12-14-20 MARKETWATCH news story entitled "Electoral College Confirms Joe Biden as President-Elect Amid Threats of Violence and Trump Protests":

Electors across the country voted amid threats of violence and the continued, unsubstantiated allegations by President Donald Trump that he lost the November election as the result of widespread election fraud [...].

The Michigan State Capitol was closed due to “credible threats of violence,” the Washington Post reported, while in Arizona, the vote was held in an undisclosed location for safety reasons, according to the New York Times.

In Wisconsin, electors were instructed to enter the capitol grounds through an “unmarked side door” to avoid protesters, as electors in the state reportedly having received threats of harm against them and their families if they followed through with their pledged votes for Biden.

Trump has consistently stoked the anger of his supporters, tweeting this weekend that swing states “CANNOT LEGALLY CERTIFY these votes as complete & correct without committing a severely punishable crime.” The president has continued to advance allegations of election fraud that have been discredited in the more than 50 court cases he and his allies have lost in seeking to overturn the results of the November election.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear a case filed by the state of Texas and joined by the Trump campaign and publicly supported by 126 House Republicans that sought to have the results of the presidential balloting in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin declared unconstitutional and effectively hand Trump a second term.

Though there remains active litigation in courts wherein the Trump campaign and its allies are seeking to decertify results in many of the same battleground states, the Supreme Court’s refusal to even hear the Texas case represents a comprehensive rebuke of theories of widespread voter fraud or illegal changes to state election law as factoring into the Trump loss to Biden.

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From Sanjana Karanth's 12-6-20 HUFFINGTON POST article entitled "Armed Michiganders Gather Outside Secretary Of State’s Home To Deny Voting Results":

Supporters of President Donald Trump amped up their efforts to intimidate Michigan officials this weekend, gathering with firearms outside Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s home on Saturday to protest the battleground state’s election results, which helped Joe Biden win the race.

Benson, who is Michigan’s top election official, released a statement on Sunday speaking out about the incident. She said that dozens of armed individuals stood outside her home “shouting obscenities and chanting into bullhorns” while she was decorating the house for Christmas with her 4-year-old son.

“The demands made outside my home were unambiguous, loud and threatening. They targeted me in my role as Michigan’s Chief Election Officer,” Benson said. “But the threats of those gathered weren’t actually aimed at me ― or any other elected officials in this state. They were aimed at the voters.”

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