News from the wacky world of Trump's twittering. Note especially his penultimate sentence, in the extended tweet, about Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's brother.
...The consent decree signed by the “Secretary”, with the consent of Kemp, is perhaps even more poorly negotiated than the deal that John Kerry made with Iran. Now it turns out that Brad R’s brother works for China, and they definitely don’t want “Trump”. So disgusting! #MAGA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 30, 2020
Although some in the press originally reported that Brad R. is brotherless, he does in fact have a brotherly sibling — just not the one Trump fingered.
Snopes: "While Brad Raffensperger does have a brother … and sisters, none of them is named Ron [the 'CTO for a subsidiary of the Huawei conglomerate,' whom Trump mistook, from a circulating conspiracy theory, to be Brad's brother]. Nor has [Ron] ever resided in the same state as the Georgia Raffensperger."
Such is the sort of goofy allegations ladled out by Trump like bathtub gin — causing a similar effect on his supporters. Commented one of them in a MAGA stupor: "We have your back, Mr. President!!! Keep fighting!!! We will hold the line like it’s 1776!!!!" (But which side?)
Meanwhile, the nation's second-greatest embarrassment, Josh Hawley — a senator from my once-swing state of birth and rearing, now gone nihilistically bananas — has announced he'll be joining Rep. Mo Brooks and 17 other House crackpots [edit: the estimated count is now up to around 140] in objecting to the "conclusive" Electoral Vote tally on 6 Jan.
Yet this profoundly anti-democratic swing by a Yale Law graduate otherwise schooled in America's constitutional foundations has a prodigious upside: Senate Republicans will soon be faced with either defying the despot in chief — he who is so adulated by millions of gin-soaked, wannabe stormtroopers — or announcing that they, too, are dead set against American democracy.
Thus I join in Trump's also-tweeted enthusiasm: "JANUARY SIXTH, SEE YOU IN DC!" Or anyplace with popcorn, Trail Mix and a TeeVee.