All posts tagged "Election Conspiracy"

While Donald Trump’s polling numbers continue to slip amidst a rudderless and costly war with Iran that is sending gas prices soaring, he appears to be laying the groundwork to intervene in the upcoming midterm elections with a steady drip of rhetorical provocations and administrative actions.

And, while he claims not to be considering calling a pre-election national emergency, at least two former Venezuelan military officials have offered intelligence that fits a scheme long embraced by election conspiracists for the president to seize extraordinary powers based on the claim of foreign interference.

Hugo Carvajal Barrios, a retired general and the former head of Venezuelan military intelligence who faces life in prison after pleading guilty to narco-terrorism, said in an open letter to Trump that “regime operatives maintain relationships with election officials and voting-machine companies inside your country....