By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — After Twitter’s new owner, the iconoclast Elon Musk, began releasing internal information that renewed questions about the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s presidential-election win in 2020, Biden traveled to a Phoenix event attended by, among others, the Democrat woman supposedly elected as Arizona’s new governor after widespread voter suppression on November 8.
Biden’s December 6 visit to the construction site of a major new computer chip plant here occurred one day after what was called a “bizarre” vote-certification ceremony at the State Capitol by and for Katie Hobbs, where Arizona Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich warned of “A reminder of what John F. Kennedy often said, ‘Those who ride the tiger to seek power often end up inside’.”
Brnovich’s comment could be seen as criticism of the power grab by Hobbs’ “uniparty” allies to get her in as governor. The left-wing, pro-abortion radical Hobbs currently is secretary of state, and had declined back in July 2021 to remove her involvement from overseeing the gubernatorial run that she was making.
The attorney general’s office issued a statement on December 5 saying in part, “The attorney general’s participation in today’s canvass serves as neither an endorsement of the election results nor the lawfulness under which the election was conducted.”
Hobbs’ media and political allies sought to suppress criticism of the election and subsequent events, including this Capitol ceremony, trying to create the impression of smooth sailing now.
But Brnovich’s warning showed he hadn’t caved to political rough guys including “uniparty” pro-Hobbs Republicans who officially administered the midterm election in populous and crucial Maricopa County, home to Phoenix.
That would include the chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Bill Gates, who had expressed his abhorrence in August that MAGA Republicans won their primaries, and county Recorder Stephen Richer, also an in-office activist against MAGA Republicans.
In an interview posted August 5, Gates told KTAR Radio (92.3 FM) that the GOP may need to lose some elections so it could find itself again.
The elections-integrity unit at Brnovich’s office sent a letter more than three pages long on November 19 seeking answers from Maricopa County about the many serious problems and complaints about Election Day, but the county brushed off the inquiry and said that everyone who wanted to vote did so.
This was a laughably false claim about ballot suppression that began almost as soon as the polls opened at 6 a.m. and continued around many of the county’s 223 voting centers during the day, even up to closing time.
Meanwhile, Biden drew strong criticism for visiting this state while pointedly avoiding the border, as he also has done elsewhere. Mexico is about 100 miles south of Phoenix. Some critics said Biden knows that cameras follow him, and he had no interest in bringing cameras to see the massive suffering his open-borders agenda is causing on the U.S. doorstep.
The cognitively impaired Biden lures millions of illegal aliens here to claim government support even while out-of-control drug and sex-trafficking and threats to U.S. security come along, injuring and killing U.S. residents.
Estimates that Biden already has brought in about 5 million unauthorized entrants would mean he has beckoned in the equivalent of about two-thirds of Arizona’s entire population since taking office in January 2021.
Before going to the airport from the White House on December 6, Biden was asked why he wouldn’t be at the border. He replied, “Because there are more important things going on. They are going to invest billions of dollars in a new enterprise in the state.”
Bad Catholic Biden thus ignored the billions of dollars lost every year because of the border crisis he callously inflames.
Musk And The Common Man
Meanwhile, the super-wealthy entrepreneur Musk was seen as sticking up for ordinary people by helping to reveal the machinations Twitter had employed to suppress news that would have hurt Biden’s presidential campaign in 2020 while promoting a slant that helped him.
And Twitter was just part of the corporate and media machinery dedicated to marching Biden into the White House however possible.
Donald Trump, who supposedly was defeated by Biden in the competition, has drawn subsequent criticism for continuing to mention that race. However, if someone had committed some other grave wrong against a victim only two years ago, is it just or fair for the victim to allow the evildoer to escape rebuke and commit more immorality?
A key point for Twitter was news about Biden son Hunter’s trove of damaging information on his laptop computer that Twitter and other agencies suppressed.
Cong. James Comer (R., Ky.), ranking member of the U.S. House Oversight Committee, told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures:
“The problem the Democrats should have is why were they so scared of the laptop story? And that the answer is because the laptop proves evidence that, not only did Joe Biden lie to the American people about his involvement with his family’s influence-peddling and shady business deals, it also proves that Joe Biden was a part of those shady business deals. And that’s something every American should be concerned about.”
In early December word emerged that Arizona’s Katie Hobbs, like other Democrats, had asked Twitter to remove content that she didn’t like.
The Just the News website posted on December 6 that an email surfaced “that showed Hobbs’ office flagging a Twitter account on January 7, 2021, for review. The message emerged during discovery in a First Amendment lawsuit filed in May by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry against President Joe Biden alleging collusion between the administration and Big Tech in a sprawling censorship enterprise.
“Under the subject line ‘Election Related Misinformation,’ Hobbs’ communications director cited two tweets from an account that were of ‘specific concern to the secretary of state’,” Just the News reported, adding that “Hobbs’ communications director didn’t respond to a request for comment on” December 5.
Cong. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) called for a federal investigation, tweeting that Hobbs used the power of her secretary of state office “to collude w/Twitter to unconstitutionally violate 1st Amendment rights of Americans for her own political gain.”
On the morning of December 6, Phoenix radio talk host James T. Harris (KFYI, 550 AM) commented that Hobbs’ secretary of state office didn’t allow in-person attendance by members of the public at the vote-certification ceremony, as required by law, but live-streamed it while Hobbs surprised watchers by making a speech praising the accuracy of the controversial election.
“Rarely if ever has the secretary of state . . . made a speech” at the ceremony, Harris said. “. . . She caught everyone off guard” by making a strong defense of the controversial election, he said, so Attorney General Brnovich replied.
Other public officials at the closed ceremony were outgoing Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, who was term-limited, and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Brutinel.
Brnovich spoke up to say he didn’t know there would be speeches and added that he and Ducey were to witness the ceremony but don’t certify the election.
On the same day, December 5, Brnovich’s office issued a statement in which he said: “As we gather today to solidify the 2022 midterm election results, many Arizonans of all political persuasions continue to have doubts about our election processes.
“As attorney general,” he continued, “I have made it one of my office’s highest priorities to defend our election laws and advocate for changes when necessary. I will continue to do so throughout the end of my term.”
Brnovich’s term ends at the beginning of January. He ran unsuccessfully in the 2022 Arizona Republican primary to move up to the U.S. Senate, coming in third in a five-candidate field.
Without citing Brnovich directly, the December 5 statement from his office also said: “The Arizona Constitution and statutes make clear that the governor and the attorney general merely serve as witnesses to the SOS’s [secretary of state’s] certification. Ultimately, the counties are tasked with the actual certification responsibilities and delivering the ‘official canvass’ to the SOS.
“Thus, any issues or irregularities will have to be resolved in an election contest brought against the SOS and the relevant county election officials,” the statement continued.
It also said: “The attorney general has separate statutory responsibilities to enforce the election laws, and any violation of those laws will be pursued as necessary and appropriate. The attorney general’s participation in today’s canvass serves as neither an endorsement of the election results nor the lawfulness under which the election was conducted.
“Those determinations are ultimately made in any election contest or separate enforcement matters under A.R.S § 16-1021,” it said.
Radio talk host Harris said the December 5 State Capitol canvass was “bizarre” for being closed to the public despite the law, and Hobbs making a speech to praise the election that made her governor-elect.
Harris played parts of Hobbs’ comments that sounded like a prissy schoolmarm to those inclined to take an unfavorable view of the sounds she emitted.
The talk host said that surely Hobbs was aware of sentiments about the election, but she insisted, “Arizona had a successful election . . . Democracy prevailed” amid transparency, accuracy, and fairness.
To Harris, this sounded like “an insult” and the likelihood of “belligerence” for the next four years. He said it was “unprecedented for a secretary of state to blather on after signing the canvass.”
Sham Election
In a separate segment on December 6, Harris interviewed Kari Lake, the GOP gubernatorial nominee who supposedly lost to Hobbs by less than one percent of about 2.5 million votes cast, which supposedly took nearly two weeks to count.
Lake said she thinks Hobbs knows the election was a sham, and everyone else knows it.
Public officials including Bill Gates and Stephen Richer were plainly opposed to her candidacy and were inappropriate in their positions, Lake said, adding that she is prepared to appeal her loss as high as she can in the judicial system.
“Hundreds of thousands of people were discriminated against” in the election, she said. “. . . If you don’t deal with a problem, it festers and it becomes malignant.”
Lake said she’s “being asked by the people to not stop fighting” now. “We are not going to have a voice left” at the ballot box if she doesn’t fight, she said.
National radio talk host Dennis Prager also interviewed Lake on December 6. Prager said he rarely has political candidates on his program, much less ones whose elections are over, but when Lake’s descriptions of what happened are considered, it’s hard to see why questions aren’t allowed about the election’s accuracy.
“Things are not run well in Maricopa County,” she said, to which Prager replied, “That’s clear.”
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