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https://www.businessinsider.com/newt-gingrich-asks-attorney-general-bill-barr-arrest-poll-workers-2020-11

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called on Attorney General Bill Barr to send federal agents to arrest poll workers, claiming that several states' voting systems were "corrupt." He cited no evidence to back up his claim.

In an interview on Fox News on Thursday night, the host Sean Hannity and Gingrich discussed the Trump campaign's lawsuits in Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, filed as Joe Biden took the lead in several battleground states.

In one lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania, Trump's team complained that its poll watchers weren't allowed to be close enough to observe the ballot counting. One court ruled on Thursday that candidates' designated observers must be allowed to watch the vote counting. Counting has proceeded on that basis.

"Is that a violation of law? And how do you remedy that?" Hannity asked Gingrich.

"The Philadelphia machine is corrupt. The Atlanta machine is corrupt. The machine in Detroit is corrupt. And they are trying to steal the presidency. And we should not allow them to do that," Gingrich responded.

In reality, no charge has been brought or civil lawsuit filed to suggest that any poll workers are "corrupt."

But Gingrich continued. "First of all, under federal law, we should lock up the people who are breaking the law," he said. "You stop somebody from being an observer, you just broke federal law. You hide and put up papers so nobody can see what you're doing? You just broke federal law. You bring in ballots that aren't real? You just broke federal law."

When asked by Hannity how to fix such a problem, Gingrich said the "first answer" was to look at the attorney general, who "issued an order that federal agents can carry guns in the pursuit of people who are breaking the law."

"That's a signal," Gingrich said.

The attorney general has not made any such order.

https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1324577643740606465

Uhhhhh
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I saw this yesterday. It made me angry.
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He also ran on a platform of moon base in 2016.

There's a reason he didn't do much in politics after 1999.

Newt is one of the worst cancers on democracy

he is solely responsible for the right wing/christian association that has destroyed america

Poop2 posted...

Newt is one of the worst cancers on democracy

he is solely responsible for the right wing/christian association that has destroyed america

this

gingrich was effectively the mitch mcconnell of the 90s

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