Turning Point leader pleads guilty to attempted election fraud

Turning Point leader pleads guilty to attempted election fraud

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  5. Arizona Freedom Caucus – apparently, he thought that meant he was free to forge election documents. Of course, at the time, he had every reason to think he was free to do that.

  6. >*In Arizona law, when a person without a criminal history is found guilty of a low-level felony, the judge can wait until that person’s probation is finished before designating the crime a felony or misdemeanor.*

    Convenient for Smith, because he could be back in politics. But more important, TPUSA leaders are not exactly looking very good right now… “Et tu, Brute?”

  7. 100 signatures??

    Like why, he couldn’t find 100 additional people anywhere? Did he forge them for fun or just out of laziness??

  8. No way…. he’s a republican right? They’d NEVER do that, right?

  9. Sounds like Turning Point isn’t sending their best.

  13. Good article that has direct links to the court docs

  14. I am shocked to see the fraud from the people you’d expect. 

    So shocked to see the right do this again.

  15. Oh really? Turning point is ran by pieces of crap?

    no way…..

  18. >The Republican from Surprise was a member of the far-right Arizona Freedom Caucus, which has a history of spreading false claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election and pushed for election law changes in the state legislature. 

    >“As a part of his guilty plea today, Smith admitted signing the name of a deceased woman on one of his candidate nomination petitions in March of 2024,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. “He also admitted that he attempted to deceive the Secretary of State’s Office by knowingly filing petitions containing forged signatures of purported supporters of his nomination for the Republican primary for State Representative from LD 29.”

  19. Oh look at that…Christian’s committing crimes…again. God must be so proud.

  21. This should be posted every god damn where… there is one party that will lie cheat and steal every god damn time. God damn these WWE style grifters.

  22. So Trump is going to send the National Guard and DOJ observers there, right?

  23. Go ahead. Tell me again how both parties are the same. SMFH.

  24. These tools are in the schools out here in AZ and the chickenshits in charge are too scared to toss out literal nazis

  26. Geez, everything truly IS a projection with MAGA, isn’t it?

  33. >However, 100 of the signatures on his petition to get on last year’s Republican primary ballot, along with corresponding addresses, obviously look like they were all written by the same person.

    This excerpt says it all re: the low expectations Republican voters have for their politicians’ intelligence.

  35. Of course he did. Mark Harris who is an elected NC congressman thanks to gerrymandering orchestrated voter fraud too and has the Gaul to say he’s about “law and order.” Republicans act in bad faith always. Democrats need to stop taking them at their word.

  37. Who could have possibly thought it was exactly the people we most suspected?!

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