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douglas9

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Fri Sep 6, 2024, 05:17 AM Sep 2024

"He put a gun to my head" [View all]

“He said, ‘Help me! Help me!’ and he stuck his hand inside his coat. When I tried to help him, he pulls out a gun. That’s when he told me to get on the ground.”

Mark Anthony Aguirre, a vigilante vote-fraud hunter, ran an air-conditioning repair truck off the road. Then Aguirre put a gun to the repairman’s head—and demanded the driver, David Zuniga, open up the back of his truck. Aguirre believed that Zuniga was smuggling 750,000 forged absentee ballots, all “voting” for Biden, enough to win Texas.

Zuniga, rightly frightened for his life, opened the back of his A/C repair truck to reveal…A/C ducts and pipes. No forged ballots.

The gunman was not some lone crazy: In October 2020, he was paid a stunning $266,400 by a right-wing Texas billionaire, Steven Hotze, who had hired dozens of vigilantes in the hope of proving that Joe Biden was trying to steal the election by stuffing ballot boxes with forged ballots.

In Houston, I met with the man who supposedly forged these 750,000 ballots, Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis. Harris County is better known as Houston, Texas.

https://www.gregpalast.com/he-put-a-gun-to-my-head/

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"He put a gun to my head" [View all] douglas9 Sep 2024 OP
The billionaires will destroy this country for tax cuts. Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #1
As Sen. Warren has said... 2naSalit Sep 2024 #2
It becomes a monstrous addiction. Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #4
I agree. I did not always feel this way, but I think too many of them just cause damage for their own power. Lonestarblue Sep 2024 #6
Yes but the bad outweighs the good. Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #12
Not just tax cuts; they want to be the rulers with a puppet, ersatz 'democratic' government. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2024 #8
Yes they are addicted to both power and money. Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #13
It's just another form of hoarding. Just as pathological Scrivener7 Sep 2024 #10
Yes it is a true addiction/hoarding psychopathology. Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #14
Absolutely bizarre isn't it? PatSeg Sep 2024 #20
Yes it is a hoarding/addiction disorder. Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #21
Yes, we not only "let them do it", PatSeg Sep 2024 #23
Exactly. Ruthless pursuit of vast wealth is a virtue, not a sin. Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #24
And of course that myth about the virtuous PatSeg Sep 2024 #25
Yes worshipping the dollar came from those Irish_Dem Sep 2024 #27
Generously spreading their own pathologies to the masses PatSeg Sep 2024 #28
Shouldn't both the gunman and the billionaire be charged JT45242 Sep 2024 #3
He was genxlib Sep 2024 #5
I'm sure that the billionaire will see justice in 10 or 20 years Orrex Sep 2024 #7
I wish you were wrong. SunSeeker Sep 2024 #9
Nope, he is not. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Sep 2024 #11
It's also an indictment of citizens united ColinC Sep 2024 #16
I was just telling a friend about how the stochastic terrorists and terrorists are funded by billionaires ColinC Sep 2024 #15
This Delphinus Sep 2024 #17
I'm not a violent person, I cry at the sight of roadkill... róisín_dubh Sep 2024 #18
It is nice to see someone else thinks France had it right Stargazer99 Sep 2024 #26
Well, the Billionaire M*Fucker was indicted Joinfortmill Sep 2024 #19
Hotze has been named as a total kook for over a decade, here: Archae Sep 2024 #22
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